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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






4. You can burn the flag






5. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






13. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






16. 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






17. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce






18. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






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






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






21. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






23. Established judicial review






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






25. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






28. Separate is not equal






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






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






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






32. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






34. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






35. Right to privacy






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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






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






43. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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