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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






4. Separate but equal for races






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






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






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






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






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






10. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






11. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






12. Right to privacy






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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






21. Established exclusionary rule






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






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






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






25. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)






26. 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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






33. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






43. Separate is not equal






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






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






46. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






48. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






49. Established judicial review






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