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Important Court Cases

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






2. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






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






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






17. Separate is not equal






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






19. Separate but equal for races






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






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






22. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






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






26. Established exclusionary rule






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






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






29. 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






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






31. Right to privacy






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






33. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






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






37. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






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