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Important Court Cases
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1. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Olmstead v US 1928
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Buckley v Baleo 1976
2. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
United States v Lopez 1995
Olmstead v US 1928
3. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)
Virginia v Black 2002
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
4. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Kelo v New London 2005
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Clinton v New York 1998
5. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
6. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Miller v California 1973
Powell v Alabama 1932
7. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Smith v Allwright 1944
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
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Korematsu v US 1944
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
9. Established judicial review
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Gitlow v NY 1925
Furman v Georgia 1972
Marbury v Madison 1803
10. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Texas v Johnson 1989
US v Nixon 1974
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
11. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Powell v Alabama 1932
Schenck v US 1919
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Roe v Wade 1973
12. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
New York Times v US 1971
Korematsu v US 1944
13. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Barron v Baltimore 1819
14. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Powell v Alabama 1932
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Schenck v US 1919
15. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Dennis v US 1951
Olmstead v US 1928
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
16. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Engel v Vitale 1962
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
17. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
18. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
US v Eichman 1990
19. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
Powell v Alabama 1932
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
20. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Dennis v US 1951
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
21. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Korematsu v US 1944
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Schenck v US 1919
22. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Clinton v New York 1998
Gitlow v NY 1925
23. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Schenck v US 1919
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Smith v Allwright 1944
Texas v Johnson 1989
24. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Bush v Gore 2000
New York Times v US 1971
United States v Lopez 1995
Betts v Brady 1942
25. 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
Barron v Baltimore 1819
US v Eichman 1990
Miller v California 1973
Smith v Allwright 1944
26. 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
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Olmstead v US 1928
Roe v Wade 1973
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
27. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Near v Minnesota 1931
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Fletcher v Peck 1810
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
28. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Furman v Georgia 1972
29. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Engel v Vitale 1962
Smith v Allwright 1944
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
30. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
New York Times v US 1971
31. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Kelo v New London 2005
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
South Dakota v Dole 1987
32. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Gitlow v NY 1925
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Marbury v Madison 1803
33. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Near v Minnesota 1931
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Gregg v Georgia 1976
34. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
US v Nixon 1974
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Olmstead v US 1928
35. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
36. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Lawrence v Texas 2003
37. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
Texas v Johnson 1989
New York Times v US 1971
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
38. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments
Olmstead v US 1928
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Near v Minnesota 1931
39. Separate but equal for races
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Smith v Allwright 1944
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
40. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Oregon v Elstad 1985
United States v Lopez 1995
New York Times v US 1971
41. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
42. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Engel v Vitale 1962
Baker v Carr 1962
US v Nixon 1974
43. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Bush v Gore 2000
Miller v California 1973
44. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Near v Minnesota 1931
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
US v Nixon 1974
45. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Olmstead v US 1928
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Kelo v New London 2005
46. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools
Texas v Johnson 1989
Olmstead v US 1928
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
United States v Lopez 1995
47. 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
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Texas v Johnson 1989
Furman v Georgia 1972
48. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Miller v California 1973
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
New York Times v US 1971
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
49. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Miranda v Arizona 1966
50. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Clinton v New York 1998
Texas v Johnson 1989
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995