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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






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






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






6. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






9. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






11. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






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






15. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






16. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






25. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






28. Established judicial review






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Separate but equal for races






38. Established exclusionary rule






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






40. Separate is not equal






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






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






43. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






47. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






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






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