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Important Court Cases

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1. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)






2. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war






3. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools






4. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional






5. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity






6. Separate but equal for races






7. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce






8. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






9. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






10. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






11. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association






12. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)






13. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke






14. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks






15. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)






16. Giving money to political campaign = free speech - so wealthy people can now spend as much of their own money as they want if they choose to run for federal office






17. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states






18. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment






19. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'






20. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






21. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






22. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes






23. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons






24. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech






25. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases






26. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






27. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established






28. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause






29. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause






30. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action






31. Established judicial review






32. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation






33. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts






34. Separate is not equal






35. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






36. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.






37. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments






38. Intentional infliction of emotional distress was permissible First Amendment speech as long as it was about a public official - and no one would actually think it was fact






39. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women






40. 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






41. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady






42. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested






43. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






44. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools






45. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible






46. Established exclusionary rule






47. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned






48. 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






49. You can burn the flag






50. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found