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1. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Baker v Carr 1962
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Oregon v Elstad 1985
2. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
3. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Korematsu v US 1944
4. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Weeks v US 1914
Marbury v Madison 1803
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
5. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Bush v Gore 2000
6. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Korematsu v US 1944
US v Eichman 1990
Marbury v Madison 1803
7. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Olmstead v US 1928
Clinton v New York 1998
Engel v Vitale 1962
8. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Kelo v New London 2005
Bush v Gore 2000
US v Nixon 1974
9. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
New York Times v US 1971
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Betts v Brady 1942
10. You can burn the flag
New York Times v US 1971
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Texas v Johnson 1989
Powell v Alabama 1932
11. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Powell v Alabama 1932
Betts v Brady 1942
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
12. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
Dennis v US 1951
Virginia v Black 2002
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
13. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Powell v Alabama 1932
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Fletcher v Peck 1810
14. Separate but equal for races
Schenck v US 1919
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Virginia v Black 2002
15. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Weeks v US 1914
16. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Near v Minnesota 1931
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Katz v US 1967
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
17. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Roe v Wade 1973
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
18. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
Bush v Gore 2000
Powell v Alabama 1932
New York Times v US 1971
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
19. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools
New York Times v US 1971
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
United States v Lopez 1995
20. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment
Smith v Allwright 1944
Olmstead v US 1928
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
United States v Lopez 1995
21. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Texas v Johnson 1989
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Gitlow v NY 1925
22. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Kelo v New London 2005
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Olmstead v US 1928
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
23. 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
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Virginia v Black 2002
Betts v Brady 1942
24. 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
Katz v US 1967
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
25. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'
Smith v Allwright 1944
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Marbury v Madison 1803
26. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Mapp v Ohio 1961
27. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Betts v Brady 1942
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
28. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Roe v Wade 1973
Miller v California 1973
Virginia v Black 2002
29. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Katz v US 1967
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
30. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Miller v California 1973
Olmstead v US 1928
31. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
32. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Clinton v New York 1998
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
33. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
34. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
35. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
Texas v Johnson 1989
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Virginia v Black 2002
36. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Bush v Gore 2000
New York Times v US 1971
37. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
38. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Kelo v New London 2005
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
39. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Weeks v US 1914
Korematsu v US 1944
Katz v US 1967
40. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Miller v California 1973
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
41. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
42. Established judicial review
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Marbury v Madison 1803
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
43. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Gitlow v NY 1925
44. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Miller v California 1973
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Texas v Johnson 1989
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
45. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Kelo v New London 2005
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Powell v Alabama 1932
Gitlow v NY 1925
46. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Schenck v US 1919
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
47. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments
Weeks v US 1914
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
48. 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
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Marbury v Madison 1803
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
49. 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
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Virginia v Black 2002
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
50. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Near v Minnesota 1931
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
South Dakota v Dole 1987
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