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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. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.






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






4. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






7. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






9. Right to privacy






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools






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






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






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






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






22. Separate but equal for races






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'






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






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






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






37. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






38. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






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






41. Separate is not equal






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






49. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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