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Important Court Cases

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






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






3. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






4. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






18. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






20. Separate but equal for races






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






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






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






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






25. Established judicial review






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






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






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






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






40. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






41. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






44. You can burn the flag






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






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






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






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






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






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