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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






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






5. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






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






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






9. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






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






20. 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






21. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






30. You can burn the flag






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






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






33. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






43. Established exclusionary rule






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. 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






46. Separate but equal for races






47. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






48. Separate is not equal






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






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