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Important Court Cases

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






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






3. Established exclusionary rule






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






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






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






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






8. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






11. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






24. 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






25. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Separate but equal for races






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






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






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






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






37. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






38. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






39. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






41. 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






42. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






44. Established judicial review






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






46. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






47. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






49. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






50. 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