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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






10. 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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






18. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






19. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






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






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






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






25. Separate is not equal






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






38. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






39. Right to privacy






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






41. 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






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






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






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






45. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






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






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






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






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