SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Important Court Cases
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
law
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
United States v Lopez 1995
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
2. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Miller v California 1973
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
3. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Virginia v Black 2002
Bush v Gore 2000
Clinton v New York 1998
4. Established judicial review
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Marbury v Madison 1803
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
New York Times v US 1971
5. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Schenck v US 1919
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
6. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Smith v Allwright 1944
Kelo v New London 2005
US v Eichman 1990
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
7. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Baker v Carr 1962
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Powell v Alabama 1932
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
8. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Furman v Georgia 1972
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Miller v California 1973
9. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Kelo v New London 2005
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Bush v Gore 2000
10. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Near v Minnesota 1931
Korematsu v US 1944
11. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Powell v Alabama 1932
Schenck v US 1919
12. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
New York Times v US 1971
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Virginia v Black 2002
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
13. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Clinton v New York 1998
Powell v Alabama 1932
US v Nixon 1974
14. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Dennis v US 1951
Buckley v Baleo 1976
15. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
Baker v Carr 1962
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
US v Eichman 1990
16. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Engel v Vitale 1962
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
17. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Lawrence v Texas 2003
18. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
United States v Lopez 1995
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
19. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Baker v Carr 1962
20. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Gregg v Georgia 1976
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
21. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Kelo v New London 2005
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
22. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Weeks v US 1914
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Schenck v US 1919
23. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Clinton v New York 1998
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
24. Established exclusionary rule
Weeks v US 1914
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
25. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Gitlow v NY 1925
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
26. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Clinton v New York 1998
Furman v Georgia 1972
Olmstead v US 1928
27. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
Texas v Johnson 1989
Baker v Carr 1962
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Miranda v Arizona 1966
28. You can burn the flag
Lawrence v Texas 2003
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Texas v Johnson 1989
Fletcher v Peck 1810
29. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Dennis v US 1951
Texas v Johnson 1989
Mapp v Ohio 1961
30. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Dennis v US 1951
31. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Katz v US 1967
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Kelo v New London 2005
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
32. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Betts v Brady 1942
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
33. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
34. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found
Furman v Georgia 1972
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
35. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Bush v Gore 2000
36. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Engel v Vitale 1962
Near v Minnesota 1931
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
37. Right to privacy
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Near v Minnesota 1931
Virginia v Black 2002
38. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Korematsu v US 1944
39. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Betts v Brady 1942
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Virginia v Black 2002
40. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded
Roe v Wade 1973
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Gregg v Georgia 1976
41. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'
Texas v Johnson 1989
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Schenck v US 1919
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
42. 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
Roe v Wade 1973
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
43. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
US v Eichman 1990
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Virginia v Black 2002
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
44. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Katz v US 1967
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
45. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Katz v US 1967
Weeks v US 1914
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
46. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Near v Minnesota 1931
Miranda v Arizona 1966
47. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Olmstead v US 1928
48. 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
US v Eichman 1990
Virginia v Black 2002
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Smith v Allwright 1944
49. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Baker v Carr 1962
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
50. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Marbury v Madison 1803
Near v Minnesota 1931