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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






4. Established exclusionary rule






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






6. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)






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






8. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






21. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






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. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke






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






27. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






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






33. Established judicial review






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






35. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






36. 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






37. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






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






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






41. Separate but equal for races






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






43. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






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






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






46. Separate is not equal






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






48. Right to privacy






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






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