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Important Court Cases
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1. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Schenck v US 1919
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
2. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
South Dakota v Dole 1987
3. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
New York Times v US 1971
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Miller v California 1973
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
4. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Furman v Georgia 1972
Texas v Johnson 1989
5. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Bush v Gore 2000
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Katz v US 1967
6. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Kelo v New London 2005
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
7. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Kelo v New London 2005
Katz v US 1967
8. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Dennis v US 1951
9. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Gitlow v NY 1925
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
South Dakota v Dole 1987
10. Established exclusionary rule
Virginia v Black 2002
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
New York Times v US 1971
Weeks v US 1914
11. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Engel v Vitale 1962
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Virginia v Black 2002
12. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Engel v Vitale 1962
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
Schenck v US 1919
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Barron v Baltimore 1819
14. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Korematsu v US 1944
Furman v Georgia 1972
15. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
16. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Clinton v New York 1998
Powell v Alabama 1932
Roe v Wade 1973
17. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Lawrence v Texas 2003
18. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Lawrence v Texas 2003
19. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Furman v Georgia 1972
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
New York Times v US 1971
20. You can burn the flag
Schenck v US 1919
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Texas v Johnson 1989
21. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Smith v Allwright 1944
Bush v Gore 2000
22. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
United States v Lopez 1995
Texas v Johnson 1989
Fletcher v Peck 1810
23. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Virginia v Black 2002
New York Times v US 1971
Betts v Brady 1942
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
24. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
Katz v US 1967
US v Eichman 1990
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Dennis v US 1951
25. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
United States v Lopez 1995
26. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
New York Times v US 1971
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
27. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Schenck v US 1919
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
28. 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
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
29. Separate is not equal
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Engel v Vitale 1962
United States v Lopez 1995
30. Right to privacy
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
31. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded
Korematsu v US 1944
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Engel v Vitale 1962
US v Nixon 1974
32. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Engel v Vitale 1962
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Roe v Wade 1973
Gitlow v NY 1925
33. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Near v Minnesota 1931
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Miller v California 1973
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
34. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Olmstead v US 1928
Texas v Johnson 1989
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
35. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Smith v Allwright 1944
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
36. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Virginia v Black 2002
Katz v US 1967
37. Established judicial review
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Marbury v Madison 1803
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
38. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
39. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
New York Times v US 1971
Engel v Vitale 1962
40. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
New York Times v US 1971
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
41. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Schenck v US 1919
Bush v Gore 2000
42. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
43. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Clinton v New York 1998
Near v Minnesota 1931
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
44. 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
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
45. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
US v Nixon 1974
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
46. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Engel v Vitale 1962
Clinton v New York 1998
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
47. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
Mapp v Ohio 1961
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Gitlow v NY 1925
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
48. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Roe v Wade 1973
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
49. 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
US v Nixon 1974
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Virginia v Black 2002
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
50. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
DeJonge v Oregon 1937