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Important Court Cases

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






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






3. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






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






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






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






9. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






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






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






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






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






26. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






27. You can burn the flag






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






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






30. 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






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






32. 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






33. Separate is not equal






34. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






36. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






37. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






40. 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






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






42. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






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






45. Separate but equal for races






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






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






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






49. Right to privacy






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