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Important Court Cases

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1. Right to privacy






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






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






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






5. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






7. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'






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






9. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






10. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found






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






12. Established judicial review






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






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






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






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






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






18. Separate but equal for races






19. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






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






25. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






26. Separate is not equal






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






28. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






29. Established exclusionary rule






30. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






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






33. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






36. 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






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






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






39. You can burn the flag






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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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