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Important Court Cases

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






2. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






5. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






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






8. 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






9. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






11. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






12. You can burn the flag






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






14. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






32. Right to privacy






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






34. Established judicial review






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






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






37. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






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






39. Separate is not equal






40. 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






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






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






43. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






44. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






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






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






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






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