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Important Court Cases
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
US v Nixon 1974
2. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
US v Nixon 1974
Texas v Johnson 1989
3. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
4. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
New York Times v US 1971
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Barron v Baltimore 1819
5. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Furman v Georgia 1972
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Bush v Gore 2000
6. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
US v Nixon 1974
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
7. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
8. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Baker v Carr 1962
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
9. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Marbury v Madison 1803
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Buckley v Baleo 1976
10. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
New York Times v US 1971
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Korematsu v US 1944
Katz v US 1967
11. 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
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
New York Times v US 1971
12. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Roe v Wade 1973
Gitlow v NY 1925
Miranda v Arizona 1966
13. 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
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Powell v Alabama 1932
14. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Miller v California 1973
Near v Minnesota 1931
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Weeks v US 1914
15. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
16. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
United States v Lopez 1995
17. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Furman v Georgia 1972
Powell v Alabama 1932
South Dakota v Dole 1987
18. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Gregg v Georgia 1976
19. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Kelo v New London 2005
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Marbury v Madison 1803
20. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Gitlow v NY 1925
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Kelo v New London 2005
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
21. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Miller v California 1973
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
22. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
23. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
US v Eichman 1990
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Kelo v New London 2005
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
24. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
New York Times v US 1971
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
25. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Smith v Allwright 1944
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Miller v California 1973
26. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Betts v Brady 1942
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Smith v Allwright 1944
27. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Near v Minnesota 1931
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
28. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Miller v California 1973
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Fletcher v Peck 1810
29. You can burn the flag
Texas v Johnson 1989
Weeks v US 1914
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
30. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
United States v Lopez 1995
Virginia v Black 2002
US v Nixon 1974
31. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Buckley v Baleo 1976
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
32. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
Baker v Carr 1962
Weeks v US 1914
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Clinton v New York 1998
33. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
34. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Engel v Vitale 1962
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Furman v Georgia 1972
35. Established exclusionary rule
Weeks v US 1914
Marbury v Madison 1803
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
36. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
37. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Lawrence v Texas 2003
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Smith v Allwright 1944
38. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Kelo v New London 2005
Roe v Wade 1973
New York Times v US 1971
Miranda v Arizona 1966
39. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Marbury v Madison 1803
Buckley v Baleo 1976
40. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Baker v Carr 1962
US v Nixon 1974
41. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Powell v Alabama 1932
42. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Schenck v US 1919
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
43. Established judicial review
Furman v Georgia 1972
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Betts v Brady 1942
Marbury v Madison 1803
44. 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
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Schenck v US 1919
United States v Lopez 1995
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
45. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Katz v US 1967
46. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Gitlow v NY 1925
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Virginia v Black 2002
47. 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
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Gitlow v NY 1925
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Gregg v Georgia 1976
48. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Katz v US 1967
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
49. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Engel v Vitale 1962
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Schenck v US 1919
50. Separate is not equal
Bush v Gore 2000
Engel v Vitale 1962
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Thornhill v Alabama 1940