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Important Court Cases
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Right to privacy
Marbury v Madison 1803
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
2. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Katz v US 1967
Fletcher v Peck 1810
3. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
Texas v Johnson 1989
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Dennis v US 1951
Near v Minnesota 1931
4. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Smith v Allwright 1944
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
5. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Smith v Allwright 1944
6. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Furman v Georgia 1972
Dennis v US 1951
7. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Gitlow v NY 1925
8. Established judicial review
Korematsu v US 1944
Marbury v Madison 1803
Miller v California 1973
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
9. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Kelo v New London 2005
Buckley v Baleo 1976
10. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Near v Minnesota 1931
Olmstead v US 1928
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Virginia v Black 2002
11. Separate is not equal
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
12. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Katz v US 1967
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Gitlow v NY 1925
Miranda v Arizona 1966
13. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Katz v US 1967
Gitlow v NY 1925
Engel v Vitale 1962
14. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Near v Minnesota 1931
15. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Miller v California 1973
US v Nixon 1974
Oregon v Elstad 1985
16. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Smith v Allwright 1944
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
17. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
United States v Lopez 1995
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Smith v Allwright 1944
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
18. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Furman v Georgia 1972
Miller v California 1973
19. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
US v Nixon 1974
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Miller v California 1973
20. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
New York Times v US 1971
Korematsu v US 1944
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Kelo v New London 2005
21. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Betts v Brady 1942
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
22. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Betts v Brady 1942
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Miranda v Arizona 1966
23. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Miranda v Arizona 1966
24. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Olmstead v US 1928
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
South Dakota v Dole 1987
25. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Clinton v New York 1998
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
26. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Kelo v New London 2005
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
27. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Miller v California 1973
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
28. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Gitlow v NY 1925
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
29. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Bush v Gore 2000
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Barron v Baltimore 1819
30. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Schenck v US 1919
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
31. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Smith v Allwright 1944
32. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Dennis v US 1951
Buckley v Baleo 1976
33. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
US v Nixon 1974
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
34. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
35. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Powell v Alabama 1932
Marbury v Madison 1803
Dennis v US 1951
Baker v Carr 1962
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
Gitlow v NY 1925
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
37. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Virginia v Black 2002
United States v Lopez 1995
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
38. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Engel v Vitale 1962
Bush v Gore 2000
39. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
40. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Kelo v New London 2005
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
New York Times v US 1971
41. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
42. Separate but equal for races
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Marbury v Madison 1803
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
43. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Kelo v New London 2005
44. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
45. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
US v Nixon 1974
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
US v Eichman 1990
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
46. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Korematsu v US 1944
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
47. 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
Buckley v Baleo 1976
US v Nixon 1974
Schenck v US 1919
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
48. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Virginia v Black 2002
US v Nixon 1974
Katz v US 1967
49. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
New York Times v US 1971
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Gregg v Georgia 1976
50. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Roe v Wade 1973
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Furman v Georgia 1972
Kelo v New London 2005