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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






4. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Established judicial review






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






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






15. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






16. Established exclusionary rule






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






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






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






20. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






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






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






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






26. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






27. 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






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






29. Separate is not equal






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






31. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






32. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






44. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






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






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






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. 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