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Important Court Cases

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






2. Separate but equal for races






3. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






4. Right to privacy






5. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






15. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






16. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






18. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






19. 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






20. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






21. Separate is not equal






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






23. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






24. Established judicial review






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






39. You can burn the flag






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






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






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






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






44. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)






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






46. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






49. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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