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Important Court Cases

Subject : law
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1. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers






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






3. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






6. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






9. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Established judicial review






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






22. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






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






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






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






28. Separate is not equal






29. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






30. Right to privacy






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






32. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. You can burn the flag






42. Separate but equal for races






43. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






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






45. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






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






48. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






49. Established exclusionary rule






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






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