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Important Court Cases

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






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






3. 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






4. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






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






6. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






9. Separate but equal for races






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






16. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






17. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






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






29. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






31. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Established exclusionary rule






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






44. Right to privacy






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






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






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






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






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






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