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Important Court Cases

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






2. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






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






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






24. 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






25. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






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






29. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






30. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)






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






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






33. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






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






37. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






38. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






40. You can burn the flag






41. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






43. Separate is not equal






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






45. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






46. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






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






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