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Important Supreme Court Cases
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1. 1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. It was not until 1988 that Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay $20 -000 to each survivor.
Texas v Johnson
Tinker v Des Moines School District
NAACP v Alabama
Korematsu v United States
2. Husband permission for abortion is unconstitutional (1992)
Casey v Planned Parenthood
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire
Baker v Car
Heart of Atlanta Motel v United States
3. Free exercise of religion not violation of compulsory attendance laws; Amish children do not have to go to school until they are 16---they may stop after the 8th grade
Wisconsin v Yoder
Brown v Board of Education
Reno v ACLU
Adarand v Pena
4. Busing Students to promote intergration is constitutional.
Brown v Board of Education
Griswold v Connecticut
Swann v Charlotte-Mecklingberg
Webster v Health Reproductive Service
5. The 1931 Supreme Court decision holding that the first amendment protects newspapers from prior restraint.
Near v Minnesota
Gitlow v United States
Roe v Wade
Texas v Johnson
6. A landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. In the case - the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to affor
Near v Minnesota
Bush v Gore
Buckley v. Valeo
Gideon v Wainwright
7. The Supreme Court held that the 1996 Communications Decency Act was unconstitutional - since it was overly broad and vague in its regulation of speech on the internet - and it attempted to regulate indecent speech - which is protected.
Casey v Planned Parenthood
Reno v ACLU
Bowers v Hardwick
Miller v California
8. Upheld the death penalty was NOT cruel and unusual punishment
Bowers v Hardwick
Gregg v Georgia
Texas v Johnson
Miranda v Arizona
9. A 1995 Supreme Court decision holding that federal programs that classify people by race - even for an ostensibly benign purpose such as expanding opportunities for minorities - should be presumed to be unconstitutional.
Korematsu v United States
Katz v United States
Miranda v Arizona
Adarand v Pena
10. Affirmative action case (lost) ; race could be used as a factor in admissions as long as there was no point system and race was not a major factor; upheld Bakke case
Hustler Magazine v Falwell
Webster v Health Reproductive Service
Grutter v Bollinger
United States v Eichman
11. A case in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld federal limits on campaign contributions and ruled that spending money to influence elections is a form of constitutionally protected free speech. The court also stated candidates can give
Santa Fe Independant School District v Doe
Grutter v Bollinger
Engel v Vitale
Buckley v. Valeo
12. Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states (evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)
Roe v Wade
Bowers v Hardwick
New York Times v Sullivan
Mapp v Ohio
13. The supreme court protected the right to assemble peaceably in this 1958 case when it decided the NAACP did not have to reveal its membership list and thus subject its members to harassment.
Santa Fe Independant School District v Doe
Tinker v Des Moines School District
Gregg v Georgia
NAACP v Alabama
14. (1942) The Court ruled that the first amendment did not protect 'fighting words'
Schnek v United States
United States v Eichman
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire
Roe v Wade
15. Courts held while that affirmative action systems are constitutional - a quota system based on race is unconstitutional.
Webster v Health Reproductive Service
Tinker v Des Moines School District
Regents of the University of California v Bakke
Gitlow v United States
16. Married couple wanted to get contraceptives; struck down a Connecticut law prohibiting the sale of contraceptives; established the right of privacy through the 4th and 9th amendment
Reno v ACLU
Schnek v United States
Griswold v Connecticut
NAACP v Alabama
17. Determined that the state could deny unemployment benefits to a person fired for violating a state prohibition on the use of peyote - even though the use of the drug was part of a religious ritual. Although states have the power to accommodate otherw
Heart of Atlanta Motel v United States
Employment Division v Smith
Swann v Charlotte-Mecklingberg
Roe v Wade
18. A 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Near v Minnesota
Gideon v Wainwright
Santa Fe Independant School District v Doe
Plessy v Ferguson
19. Court held that intentional infliction of emotional distress was permissible First Amendment free speech- so long as such speech was about a public official (figure) - and could not reasonably be construed to state actual facts about its subject
Hustler Magazine v Falwell
Gitlow v United States
Palko v Connecticut
Barron v Baltimore
20. Supreme Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police.
Miranda v Arizona
Santa Fe Independant School District v Doe
Gideon v Wainwright
Webster v Health Reproductive Service
21. A 1973 Supreme Court decision that avoided defining obscenity by holding that community standards be used to determine whether material is obscene in terms of appealing to a 'prurient interest' and being 'patently offensive' and lacking in value.
Schnek v United States
Gitlow v United States
Roe v Wade
Miller v California
22. Using the commerce clause as justification for this federal government ruling - aid that places of public acccommodation cannot pick and choose guests
Buckley v. Valeo
Heart of Atlanta Motel v United States
Grutter v Bollinger
Hustler Magazine v Falwell
23. Declared Flag Protection Act - which made flag-burning illegal - unconstitutional - 1990
Grutter v Bollinger
Gideon v Wainwright
United States v Eichman
Miranda v Arizona
24. The Fourteenth Amendment did not impose specific limitations on criminal justice in the states - and that illegally obtained evidence did not necessarily have to be excluded from trials in all cases.
Wolf v Colorado
Harris v Forklift Service
Grutter v Bollinger
Employment Division v Smith
25. Less blatant gerrymandering and redistricting was subject to judicial approval
Heart of Atlanta Motel v United States
Village of Skokie v National Socialist Party
Wisconsin v Yoder
Baker v Car
26. The 1962 Supreme Court decision holding that state officials violated the First Amendment when they wrote a prayer to be recited by New York's schoolchildren.
Boy Scouts of America v Dale
Engel v Vitale
Gregg v Georgia
Griswold v Connecticut
27. Expanded the protection of the Fourth Amendment to include conversations - not just things.
Heart of Atlanta Motel v United States
Near v Minnesota
Schnek v United States
Katz v United States
28. The 1833 Supreme Court decision holding that the bill of rights restrained only the national government - not the states and cities.
Mapp v Ohio
NAACP v Alabama
Regents of the University of California v Bakke
Barron v Baltimore
29. Established national abortion guidelines; trimester guidelines; no state interference in 1st; state may regulate to protect health of mother in 2nd; state may regulate to protect health or unborn child in 3rd. inferred from right of privacy establish
Harris v Forklift Service
Gregg v Georgia
Bowers v Hardwick
Roe v Wade
30. 1978 - Nazi group wanted to mark in neighborhood with high percentage of Jewish residents; village tried to prevent march by passing ordinances on parades that targeted the nazis; Illinois Supreme Court said march could not be forbidden because no on
Village of Skokie v National Socialist Party
United States v Eichman
Roe v Wade
Roth v United States
31. The result of this trial was the Supreme Court ruling that Congress could limit free speech - particularly during wartime - if such speech presented 'a clear and present danger' to national interests
Mapp v Ohio
Regents of the University of California v Bakke
Schnek v United States
Reno v ACLU
32. Student led - student initiated prayer at high school football games violates the Establishment Clause
Santa Fe Independant School District v Doe
Katz v United States
Korematsu v United States
Webster v Health Reproductive Service
33. A 1989 case in which the Supreme Court struck down a law banning the burning of the American flag on the grounds that such action was symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment.
Plessy v Ferguson
Santa Fe Independant School District v Doe
Texas v Johnson
Village of Skokie v National Socialist Party
34. Said that protection against double jeopardy is not guaranteed in the Fourteenth Amendment.
Plessy v Ferguson
Palko v Connecticut
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire
NAACP v Alabama
35. Law must be clearly secular - not prohibiting or inhibiting religion - and there should be no excessive entanglement
Miranda v Arizona
Lemon v Kurtzman
Near v Minnesota
Schnek v United States
36. 1964; established guidelines for determining whether public officials and public figures could win damage suits for libel. To do so - individuals must prove that the defamatory statements were made w/ 'actual malice' and reckless disregard for the tr
NAACP v Alabama
Plessy v Ferguson
New York Times v Sullivan
Regents of the University of California v Bakke
37. First Amendment right of expressive association. BSA is allowed to dismiss gay leaders because it is a private institution
Swann v Charlotte-Mecklingberg
United States v Eichman
Heart of Atlanta Motel v United States
Boy Scouts of America v Dale
38. Court found that segregation was a violation of the Equal Protection clause 'separate but equal' has no place
Miller v California
Hustler Magazine v Falwell
Brown v Board of Education
Schnek v United States
39. The USSC uphold MO law and insists that women have a right to abortion but state should not pay 'elective surgery'
Mapp v Ohio
Wisconsin v Yoder
Webster v Health Reproductive Service
Reno v ACLU
40. This case ruled in favor of Bush by saying that recounting the votes in certain counties of Florida was unconstitutional because of equal protection of the law; Gore's wish to make the process as simple and painless as possible backfired
Santa Fe Independant School District v Doe
Roe v Wade
Bush v Gore
United States v Eichman
41. Sexual harassment not protected by First Amendment Rights
Swann v Charlotte-Mecklingberg
Wisconsin v Yoder
Buckley v. Valeo
Harris v Forklift Service
42. 1969 - The First Amendment - as applied through the Fourteenth - did not permit a public school to punish a student for wearing a black armband as an anti-war protest - absent any evidence that the rule was necessary to avoid substantial interference
Santa Fe Independant School District v Doe
Tinker v Des Moines School District
Gitlow v United States
Engel v Vitale
43. 1925 court decision holding that freedoms of press and speech are 'fundamental personal rights protected by the due process clause of the 14Th amendment from impairment by the states as well as the federal government
Griswold v Connecticut
Schnek v United States
Gitlow v United States
Roth v United States
44. A 1957 Supreme Court decision ruling that obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press.
Roth v United States
Buckley v. Valeo
Village of Skokie v National Socialist Party
Swann v Charlotte-Mecklingberg
45. Right to Counsel during Interrogations
Webster v Health Reproductive Service
Adarand v Pena
Gregg v Georgia
Escobedo v Ilinois
46. In this case - a gay man from Georgia charged with committing sodomy in his own home with a consenting adult. The court ruled that the Constitution does not explicitly grant the right for homosexuals to practice their lifestyle and that laws against
Schnek v United States
Harris v Forklift Service
Bowers v Hardwick
Texas v Johnson