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Important Court Cases

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1. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






10. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






11. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






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






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






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






16. Established exclusionary rule






17. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






28. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






29. Separate is not equal






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






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






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






33. Separate but equal for races






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. Forbids state-mandated bible reading