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Important Court Cases

Subject : law
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1. 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






2. Right to privacy






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






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






5. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






8. Established judicial review






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






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






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






12. Established exclusionary rule






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






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






15. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






17. You can burn the flag






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






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






20. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






22. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools






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






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






45. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times






46. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






47. 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






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






49. Separate is not equal






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