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1. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found
Furman v Georgia 1972
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Roe v Wade 1973
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
2. Established judicial review
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Marbury v Madison 1803
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
3. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Powell v Alabama 1932
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
4. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Baker v Carr 1962
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
5. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Barron v Baltimore 1819
6. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
Powell v Alabama 1932
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Miranda v Arizona 1966
7. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
US v Eichman 1990
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
8. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
9. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
US v Eichman 1990
United States v Lopez 1995
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
10. 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
US v Nixon 1974
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Gitlow v NY 1925
11. You can burn the flag
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
South Dakota v Dole 1987
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Texas v Johnson 1989
12. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Texas v Johnson 1989
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Betts v Brady 1942
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
13. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Baker v Carr 1962
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
14. 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
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Virginia v Black 2002
15. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Roe v Wade 1973
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Texas v Johnson 1989
Miranda v Arizona 1966
16. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
United States v Lopez 1995
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Smith v Allwright 1944
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
17. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
18. Right to privacy
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Baker v Carr 1962
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
19. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Roe v Wade 1973
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Miller v California 1973
20. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
New York Times v US 1971
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Miller v California 1973
21. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Katz v US 1967
Baker v Carr 1962
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
22. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Oregon v Elstad 1985
23. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
24. Separate is not equal
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
25. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
South Dakota v Dole 1987
26. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools
United States v Lopez 1995
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
New York Times v US 1971
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
27. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Korematsu v US 1944
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
New York Times v US 1971
28. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Virginia v Black 2002
Clinton v New York 1998
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
29. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Schenck v US 1919
30. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Betts v Brady 1942
Katz v US 1967
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
31. Established exclusionary rule
Miller v California 1973
Engel v Vitale 1962
Weeks v US 1914
Buckley v Baleo 1976
32. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Bush v Gore 2000
33. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Schenck v US 1919
Near v Minnesota 1931
Smith v Allwright 1944
Gitlow v NY 1925
34. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
35. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Near v Minnesota 1931
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Engel v Vitale 1962
Marbury v Madison 1803
36. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Baker v Carr 1962
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
37. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
38. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
US v Nixon 1974
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
39. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Gregg v Georgia 1976
40. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Buckley v Baleo 1976
41. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Betts v Brady 1942
Miller v California 1973
42. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment
Powell v Alabama 1932
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Smith v Allwright 1944
Miranda v Arizona 1966
43. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
US v Nixon 1974
Dennis v US 1951
Olmstead v US 1928
44. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Kelo v New London 2005
Smith v Allwright 1944
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
45. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Bush v Gore 2000
Schenck v US 1919
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Clinton v New York 1998
46. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Baker v Carr 1962
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Katz v US 1967
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
47. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
US v Eichman 1990
US v Nixon 1974
48. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Korematsu v US 1944
Kelo v New London 2005
Buckley v Baleo 1976
49. 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
Clinton v New York 1998
Fletcher v Peck 1810
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
50. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
Schenck v US 1919
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Dennis v US 1951
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