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Important Court Cases

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






2. Right to privacy






3. 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






4. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






5. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






10. 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






11. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Separate but equal for races






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






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






21. Established judicial review






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






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






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






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






26. 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






27. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order






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






29. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






30. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






31. Established exclusionary rule






32. Separate is not equal






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






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






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






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






37. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






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






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






41. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses