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Important Court Cases
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
New York Times v US 1971
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
South Dakota v Dole 1987
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
2. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Kelo v New London 2005
Texas v Johnson 1989
Oregon v Elstad 1985
3. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Weeks v US 1914
4. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Gitlow v NY 1925
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Furman v Georgia 1972
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
5. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Miller v California 1973
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
6. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Near v Minnesota 1931
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
7. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Baker v Carr 1962
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
8. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
Marbury v Madison 1803
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Bush v Gore 2000
United States v Lopez 1995
9. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Roe v Wade 1973
New York Times v US 1971
10. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
Mapp v Ohio 1961
United States v Lopez 1995
Schenck v US 1919
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
11. Helped states to engage in eminent domain - said that fifth amendment right to take private property for public use is legal for states without eminent domain
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Katz v US 1967
Barron v Baltimore 1819
12. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Clinton v New York 1998
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
13. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
Baker v Carr 1962
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
14. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Kelo v New London 2005
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Powell v Alabama 1932
15. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
US v Eichman 1990
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Powell v Alabama 1932
16. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Miller v California 1973
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
17. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Kelo v New London 2005
US v Eichman 1990
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
18. Court rebuffed an attempt by state of New Hampshire to take control of Dartmouth by holding that Dartmouth's corporate charter was qualified as a contract between private parties
United States v Lopez 1995
Near v Minnesota 1931
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
19. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Engel v Vitale 1962
Miller v California 1973
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
20. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Kelo v New London 2005
21. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
US v Nixon 1974
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
22. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Betts v Brady 1942
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
23. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
Betts v Brady 1942
US v Nixon 1974
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
24. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
Dennis v US 1951
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Virginia v Black 2002
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
25. Separate is not equal
Olmstead v US 1928
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Powell v Alabama 1932
26. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Gitlow v NY 1925
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Schenck v US 1919
Furman v Georgia 1972
27. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
Clinton v New York 1998
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Gitlow v NY 1925
New York Times v US 1971
28. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Virginia v Black 2002
29. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
30. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
United States v Lopez 1995
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Mapp v Ohio 1961
31. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
32. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Clinton v New York 1998
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
33. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
34. Separate but equal for races
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
35. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Near v Minnesota 1931
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
36. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'
Virginia v Black 2002
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Gitlow v NY 1925
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
37. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Clinton v New York 1998
Texas v Johnson 1989
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
38. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Baker v Carr 1962
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
39. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Near v Minnesota 1931
Korematsu v US 1944
New York Times v US 1971
40. Established judicial review
Baker v Carr 1962
Marbury v Madison 1803
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
41. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Fletcher v Peck 1810
42. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
Kelo v New London 2005
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Baker v Carr 1962
43. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Gitlow v NY 1925
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
44. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
New York Times v US 1971
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
45. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Gitlow v NY 1925
46. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Baker v Carr 1962
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Lawrence v Texas 2003
47. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
Korematsu v US 1944
Engel v Vitale 1962
Marbury v Madison 1803
Smith v Allwright 1944
48. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Bush v Gore 2000
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Korematsu v US 1944
Virginia v Black 2002
49. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Olmstead v US 1928
Roe v Wade 1973
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
50. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Woodson v North Carolina 1976