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1. Established exclusionary rule
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Miller v California 1973
Weeks v US 1914
Betts v Brady 1942
2. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Miller v California 1973
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
3. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Weeks v US 1914
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
4. 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
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Schenck v US 1919
5. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Dennis v US 1951
United States v Lopez 1995
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
6. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Engel v Vitale 1962
7. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Miller v California 1973
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Fletcher v Peck 1810
8. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Roe v Wade 1973
Texas v Johnson 1989
9. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
10. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
US v Nixon 1974
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Powell v Alabama 1932
11. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Katz v US 1967
United States v Lopez 1995
12. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
13. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Betts v Brady 1942
Marbury v Madison 1803
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
14. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Katz v US 1967
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
15. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Clinton v New York 1998
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Mapp v Ohio 1961
16. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Bush v Gore 2000
17. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Gitlow v NY 1925
Oregon v Elstad 1985
18. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Marbury v Madison 1803
19. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Clinton v New York 1998
20. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Marbury v Madison 1803
Powell v Alabama 1932
Miranda v Arizona 1966
21. 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
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Texas v Johnson 1989
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
22. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Katz v US 1967
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Furman v Georgia 1972
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
23. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Olmstead v US 1928
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
US v Nixon 1974
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
24. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Virginia v Black 2002
New York Times v US 1971
Kelo v New London 2005
25. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)
New York Times v US 1971
Olmstead v US 1928
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
26. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Dennis v US 1951
Gitlow v NY 1925
Katz v US 1967
Buckley v Baleo 1976
27. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
Clinton v New York 1998
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
US v Eichman 1990
28. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Texas v Johnson 1989
29. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Roe v Wade 1973
Fletcher v Peck 1810
New York Times v US 1971
30. Established judicial review
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Marbury v Madison 1803
Betts v Brady 1942
Olmstead v US 1928
31. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Clinton v New York 1998
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
32. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
Virginia v Black 2002
US v Eichman 1990
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
33. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Baker v Carr 1962
34. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Smith v Allwright 1944
35. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Furman v Georgia 1972
Dennis v US 1951
36. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Smith v Allwright 1944
Engel v Vitale 1962
Clinton v New York 1998
Miranda v Arizona 1966
37. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Katz v US 1967
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
38. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Baker v Carr 1962
Near v Minnesota 1931
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
39. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
40. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Near v Minnesota 1931
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
United States v Lopez 1995
41. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Weeks v US 1914
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
42. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Kelo v New London 2005
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
43. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
44. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
New York Times v US 1971
Smith v Allwright 1944
Bush v Gore 2000
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
45. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
46. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Texas v Johnson 1989
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
47. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Powell v Alabama 1932
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
48. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
United States v Lopez 1995
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
49. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Schenck v US 1919
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
50. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Engel v Vitale 1962
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Fletcher v Peck 1810
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