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Important Court Cases

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






2. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers






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






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






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






6. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)






7. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing






8. 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






9. Right to privacy






10. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






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






14. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times






15. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional






16. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible






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






18. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy






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






20. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






21. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order






22. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






23. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






27. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






28. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






29. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






30. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments






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






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






33. You can burn the flag






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






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






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






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






38. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






39. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds






40. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools






41. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold






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






43. Separate is not equal






44. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it






45. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






48. 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






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






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