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Important Court Cases

Subject : law
Instructions:
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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. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






5. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






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






11. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






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






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






16. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






19. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






22. Separate is not equal






23. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






24. 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






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






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






27. Right to privacy






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






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






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






31. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






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






43. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






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






47. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






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






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






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