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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






4. You can burn the flag






5. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






8. 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






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






10. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






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






14. Established judicial review






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






16. Separate but equal for races






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






18. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






19. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






20. 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






21. 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






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






23. Established exclusionary rule






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






25. Separate is not equal






26. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






27. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






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






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






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






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






33. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






36. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






38. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






41. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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