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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
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Baker v Carr 1962
Dennis v US 1951
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
2. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Furman v Georgia 1972
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
3. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Powell v Alabama 1932
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
4. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Gitlow v NY 1925
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
South Dakota v Dole 1987
5. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
United States v Lopez 1995
Olmstead v US 1928
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
6. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Clinton v New York 1998
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
United States v Lopez 1995
South Dakota v Dole 1987
7. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Baker v Carr 1962
8. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Schenck v US 1919
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Near v Minnesota 1931
9. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
Dennis v US 1951
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Olmstead v US 1928
Powell v Alabama 1932
10. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
New York Times v US 1971
Kelo v New London 2005
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Virginia v Black 2002
11. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Korematsu v US 1944
12. Established judicial review
Olmstead v US 1928
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Marbury v Madison 1803
United States v Lopez 1995
13. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Near v Minnesota 1931
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
14. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Schenck v US 1919
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
15. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Olmstead v US 1928
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
16. Established exclusionary rule
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Weeks v US 1914
US v Eichman 1990
United States v Lopez 1995
17. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
18. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Miller v California 1973
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
19. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Engel v Vitale 1962
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Fletcher v Peck 1810
20. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Fletcher v Peck 1810
21. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Betts v Brady 1942
22. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
United States v Lopez 1995
Engel v Vitale 1962
US v Nixon 1974
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
23. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Betts v Brady 1942
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Powell v Alabama 1932
Miller v California 1973
24. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
25. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
New York Times v US 1971
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Roe v Wade 1973
26. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Texas v Johnson 1989
US v Eichman 1990
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
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Smith v Allwright 1944
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Betts v Brady 1942
28. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Near v Minnesota 1931
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Powell v Alabama 1932
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
29. Separate is not equal
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Betts v Brady 1942
Near v Minnesota 1931
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
30. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
Smith v Allwright 1944
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Baker v Carr 1962
Barron v Baltimore 1819
31. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Marbury v Madison 1803
South Dakota v Dole 1987
United States v Lopez 1995
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
32. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
33. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment
Smith v Allwright 1944
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Miranda v Arizona 1966
US v Eichman 1990
34. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
Miller v California 1973
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
US v Eichman 1990
Kelo v New London 2005
35. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments
Gitlow v NY 1925
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Virginia v Black 2002
36. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Weeks v US 1914
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
37. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Bush v Gore 2000
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Baker v Carr 1962
38. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
US v Eichman 1990
Furman v Georgia 1972
39. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Engel v Vitale 1962
Texas v Johnson 1989
Buckley v Baleo 1976
40. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Smith v Allwright 1944
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Near v Minnesota 1931
41. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Miller v California 1973
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
New York Times v US 1971
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
42. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Powell v Alabama 1932
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Roe v Wade 1973
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
43. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Roe v Wade 1973
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Baker v Carr 1962
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
44. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
45. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Dennis v US 1951
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
46. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Katz v US 1967
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
47. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Roe v Wade 1973
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
48. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
US v Eichman 1990
New York Times v US 1971
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
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
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Buckley v Baleo 1976
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
Virginia v Black 2002
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Korematsu v US 1944