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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






4. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






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






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






9. 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






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






11. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






12. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






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






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






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






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






18. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






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






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






23. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.






24. You can burn the flag






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






26. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states






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






28. Separate but equal for races






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






37. Separate is not equal






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






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






40. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






41. Established judicial review






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






43. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible






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






45. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






48. Established exclusionary rule






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






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