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Important Court Cases

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






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






3. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






4. Established exclusionary rule






5. Separate but equal for races






6. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






7. 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






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






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






10. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






11. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested






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






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






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






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






16. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






24. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






26. Right to privacy






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






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






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






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






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






32. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'






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






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






35. 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






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






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






38. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






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






42. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






43. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. Separate is not equal