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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






10. Established exclusionary rule






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






12. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






13. 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






14. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






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






20. You can burn the flag






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






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






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






24. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






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






28. 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






29. Separate is not equal






30. Right to privacy






31. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






34. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






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






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






37. Established judicial review






38. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






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






42. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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