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Important Court Cases

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1. Separate is not equal






2. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






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






6. 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






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






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






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






10. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)






11. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






12. 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






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






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






15. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






16. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






29. You can burn the flag






30. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






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






34. 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






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






36. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






37. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






38. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






40. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






45. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned






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






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






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






49. Established judicial review






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