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Important Court Cases

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






2. 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






3. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






8. You can burn the flag






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






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






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






12. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






15. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






17. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






35. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






36. 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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. Established exclusionary rule






47. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






48. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






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