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1. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Gitlow v NY 1925
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
2. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Powell v Alabama 1932
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Furman v Georgia 1972
3. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Baker v Carr 1962
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
4. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Near v Minnesota 1931
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
5. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Oregon v Elstad 1985
6. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Gitlow v NY 1925
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
7. 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
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
New York Times v US 1971
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
8. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Near v Minnesota 1931
US v Eichman 1990
Olmstead v US 1928
Furman v Georgia 1972
9. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Miranda v Arizona 1966
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Clinton v New York 1998
10. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Marbury v Madison 1803
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Gregg v Georgia 1976
11. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
US v Nixon 1974
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
12. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
New York Times v US 1971
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
13. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
Kelo v New London 2005
Korematsu v US 1944
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
14. Established exclusionary rule
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Weeks v US 1914
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
15. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
16. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Korematsu v US 1944
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
17. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Miller v California 1973
18. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Marbury v Madison 1803
19. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
Katz v US 1967
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
20. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Gregg v Georgia 1976
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
21. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Marbury v Madison 1803
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Near v Minnesota 1931
22. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Kelo v New London 2005
23. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
24. 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
US v Eichman 1990
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Betts v Brady 1942
New York Times v US 1971
25. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Clinton v New York 1998
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
26. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Kelo v New London 2005
Virginia v Black 2002
Bush v Gore 2000
Marbury v Madison 1803
27. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
28. You can burn the flag
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Texas v Johnson 1989
Katz v US 1967
29. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
United States v Lopez 1995
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
30. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Oregon v Elstad 1985
31. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Roe v Wade 1973
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
32. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Furman v Georgia 1972
Miller v California 1973
33. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Marbury v Madison 1803
34. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Oregon v Elstad 1985
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
35. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
US v Eichman 1990
US v Nixon 1974
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
36. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Olmstead v US 1928
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
37. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
Oregon v Elstad 1985
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Kelo v New London 2005
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
38. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Clinton v New York 1998
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
39. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Olmstead v US 1928
US v Eichman 1990
40. 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
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
US v Nixon 1974
Miranda v Arizona 1966
41. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
US v Nixon 1974
Roe v Wade 1973
Engel v Vitale 1962
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
42. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Clinton v New York 1998
Near v Minnesota 1931
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Miller v California 1973
43. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
US v Nixon 1974
Furman v Georgia 1972
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
44. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Marbury v Madison 1803
Mapp v Ohio 1961
45. Established judicial review
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Marbury v Madison 1803
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
46. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Betts v Brady 1942
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Olmstead v US 1928
47. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Clinton v New York 1998
Marbury v Madison 1803
Oregon v Elstad 1985
48. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Clinton v New York 1998
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Dennis v US 1951
49. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Virginia v Black 2002
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
50. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Schenck v US 1919
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Virginia v Black 2002
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
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