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Important Court Cases
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Weeks v US 1914
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
2. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Korematsu v US 1944
Marbury v Madison 1803
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
3. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Gitlow v NY 1925
Near v Minnesota 1931
4. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Engel v Vitale 1962
South Dakota v Dole 1987
5. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
6. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Texas v Johnson 1989
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
7. Separate but equal for races
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
US v Nixon 1974
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Marbury v Madison 1803
8. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
9. Right to privacy
Katz v US 1967
US v Nixon 1974
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
10. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Dennis v US 1951
Korematsu v US 1944
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Gregg v Georgia 1976
11. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Engel v Vitale 1962
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
12. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Weeks v US 1914
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
13. 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
Katz v US 1967
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Barron v Baltimore 1819
14. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
South Dakota v Dole 1987
15. 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
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
16. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Clinton v New York 1998
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Schenck v US 1919
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
17. Separate is not equal
Miller v California 1973
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
18. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments
Furman v Georgia 1972
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Clinton v New York 1998
19. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Betts v Brady 1942
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
20. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
US v Eichman 1990
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Smith v Allwright 1944
Olmstead v US 1928
21. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
US v Nixon 1974
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
22. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
New York Times v US 1971
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Engel v Vitale 1962
23. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Olmstead v US 1928
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
24. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Dennis v US 1951
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Olmstead v US 1928
25. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Fletcher v Peck 1810
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
26. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
27. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
28. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Betts v Brady 1942
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
29. You can burn the flag
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Texas v Johnson 1989
Engel v Vitale 1962
Gregg v Georgia 1976
30. 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
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Miller v California 1973
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
31. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Betts v Brady 1942
Schenck v US 1919
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
32. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Furman v Georgia 1972
Katz v US 1967
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
33. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Dennis v US 1951
34. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found
Furman v Georgia 1972
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Roe v Wade 1973
35. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
Virginia v Black 2002
Miller v California 1973
Kelo v New London 2005
Marbury v Madison 1803
36. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Engel v Vitale 1962
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
37. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Olmstead v US 1928
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
38. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Bush v Gore 2000
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
39. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Gitlow v NY 1925
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Schenck v US 1919
Clinton v New York 1998
40. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Olmstead v US 1928
Korematsu v US 1944
Katz v US 1967
41. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Texas v Johnson 1989
Weeks v US 1914
Miller v California 1973
42. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Oregon v Elstad 1985
43. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Near v Minnesota 1931
Oregon v Elstad 1985
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
44. Established exclusionary rule
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Schenck v US 1919
Weeks v US 1914
45. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
US v Eichman 1990
Furman v Georgia 1972
46. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Miller v California 1973
Clinton v New York 1998
47. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Miller v California 1973
US v Eichman 1990
Roe v Wade 1973
48. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
United States v Lopez 1995
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Smith v Allwright 1944
Bush v Gore 2000
49. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Olmstead v US 1928
Korematsu v US 1944
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
50. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
New York Times v US 1971
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Gideon v Wainwright 1963