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Important Court Cases

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






2. Separate but equal for races






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






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






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






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






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






8. Established judicial review






9. You can burn the flag






10. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






12. Separate is not equal






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






14. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






15. 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






16. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






24. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






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






30. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






31. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






40. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






42. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.






43. 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






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






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






46. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






47. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






48. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






49. 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






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