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Important Court Cases

Subject : law
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1. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes






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






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






4. 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






5. 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






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






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






8. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






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






12. You can burn the flag






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






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






15. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






17. Separate is not equal






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






25. 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






26. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Established judicial review






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






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






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






39. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






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






43. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






44. Right to privacy






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






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






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






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






49. Separate but equal for races






50. Gave states more power to regulate abortion