SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Important Court Cases
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
law
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. 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
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
2. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Texas v Johnson 1989
3. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
Korematsu v US 1944
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
United States v Lopez 1995
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
4. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Clinton v New York 1998
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Bush v Gore 2000
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
5. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Engel v Vitale 1962
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
6. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Baker v Carr 1962
7. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
US v Eichman 1990
Roe v Wade 1973
Kelo v New London 2005
8. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Smith v Allwright 1944
9. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Olmstead v US 1928
10. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Clinton v New York 1998
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Oregon v Elstad 1985
11. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Virginia v Black 2002
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Korematsu v US 1944
12. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Betts v Brady 1942
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Near v Minnesota 1931
13. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Kelo v New London 2005
Roe v Wade 1973
Schenck v US 1919
Lawrence v Texas 2003
14. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Clinton v New York 1998
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
15. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Olmstead v US 1928
16. Established exclusionary rule
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Weeks v US 1914
17. 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
Baker v Carr 1962
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Roe v Wade 1973
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
18. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
Dennis v US 1951
Engel v Vitale 1962
Miller v California 1973
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
19. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Bush v Gore 2000
Engel v Vitale 1962
20. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Furman v Georgia 1972
Texas v Johnson 1989
Virginia v Black 2002
21. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Dennis v US 1951
New York Times v US 1971
22. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Roe v Wade 1973
Clinton v New York 1998
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
23. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
Miller v California 1973
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Furman v Georgia 1972
24. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Clinton v New York 1998
Furman v Georgia 1972
Miller v California 1973
25. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Virginia v Black 2002
Betts v Brady 1942
Gitlow v NY 1925
Buckley v Baleo 1976
26. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Gregg v Georgia 1976
27. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Weeks v US 1914
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
28. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
US v Eichman 1990
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Marbury v Madison 1803
29. Separate is not equal
Gitlow v NY 1925
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Dennis v US 1951
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
30. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
US v Nixon 1974
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
31. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Furman v Georgia 1972
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
32. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Gitlow v NY 1925
33. Separate but equal for races
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Baker v Carr 1962
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
34. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Weeks v US 1914
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Miller v California 1973
35. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Clinton v New York 1998
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Miranda v Arizona 1966
36. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Virginia v Black 2002
Dennis v US 1951
Mapp v Ohio 1961
37. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Katz v US 1967
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
38. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Virginia v Black 2002
39. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
Olmstead v US 1928
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Korematsu v US 1944
40. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Near v Minnesota 1931
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
41. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
US v Nixon 1974
Powell v Alabama 1932
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Miller v California 1973
42. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Dennis v US 1951
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Weeks v US 1914
43. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
44. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Texas v Johnson 1989
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
45. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
46. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools
United States v Lopez 1995
Weeks v US 1914
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Oregon v Elstad 1985
47. 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
Katz v US 1967
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Buckley v Baleo 1976
48. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
US v Eichman 1990
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Korematsu v US 1944
Schenck v US 1919
49. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Baker v Carr 1962
New York Times v US 1971
50. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Roe v Wade 1973
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995