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Important Court Cases

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






2. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. You can burn the flag






11. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






14. Separate but equal for races






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






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






17. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






19. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools






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






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






22. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






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






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






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






26. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






37. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






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






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






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






42. Established judicial review






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited







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