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Important Court Cases

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






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






3. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






6. Right to privacy






7. Established exclusionary rule






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






9. 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






10. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






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






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






15. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






17. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






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






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






22. You can burn the flag






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






24. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Separate is not equal






37. 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






38. 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






39. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






41. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






44. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






47. Established judicial review






48. 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






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






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







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