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Important Court Cases

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






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






3. Separate is not equal






4. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






5. Right to privacy






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






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






8. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






10. 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






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






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






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






14. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






15. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






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






18. Established exclusionary rule






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






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






21. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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 judicial review






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






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






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






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






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






37. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






47. You can burn the flag






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






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






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