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Important Court Cases

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






2. Established judicial review






3. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






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






9. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






10. 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






11. You can burn the flag






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






18. Right to privacy






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






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






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






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






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






24. Separate is not equal






25. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






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






31. Established exclusionary rule






32. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






40. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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