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Important Court Cases

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






2. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






6. 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






7. Right to privacy






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






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






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






13. Separate is not equal






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






15. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






16. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






17. 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






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






19. 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






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






21. Separate but equal for races






22. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






23. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






28. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






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






32. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






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






36. Established judicial review






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






44. You can burn the flag






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






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






47. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






48. Established exclusionary rule






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






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







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