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Important Court Cases
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1. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Clinton v New York 1998
2. 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
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Engel v Vitale 1962
Dennis v US 1951
3. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Gitlow v NY 1925
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Texas v Johnson 1989
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
4. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
5. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Schenck v US 1919
Dennis v US 1951
6. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Roe v Wade 1973
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Fletcher v Peck 1810
7. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Baker v Carr 1962
8. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Schenck v US 1919
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
9. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Clinton v New York 1998
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Miranda v Arizona 1966
10. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
New York Times v US 1971
Kelo v New London 2005
11. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Dennis v US 1951
Barron v Baltimore 1819
12. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Virginia v Black 2002
Olmstead v US 1928
Roe v Wade 1973
Gitlow v NY 1925
13. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Virginia v Black 2002
Korematsu v US 1944
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
14. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Furman v Georgia 1972
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Texas v Johnson 1989
15. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
Katz v US 1967
Texas v Johnson 1989
Korematsu v US 1944
Engel v Vitale 1962
16. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Olmstead v US 1928
Engel v Vitale 1962
Dennis v US 1951
Mapp v Ohio 1961
17. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
18. Right to privacy
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
19. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Texas v Johnson 1989
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
20. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Near v Minnesota 1931
Gitlow v NY 1925
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Gregg v Georgia 1976
21. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
22. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Virginia v Black 2002
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
23. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Kelo v New London 2005
Buckley v Baleo 1976
24. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
Betts v Brady 1942
South Dakota v Dole 1987
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Oregon v Elstad 1985
25. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Powell v Alabama 1932
Katz v US 1967
Dennis v US 1951
Weeks v US 1914
26. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Gitlow v NY 1925
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
27. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Olmstead v US 1928
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Dennis v US 1951
28. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Schenck v US 1919
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
29. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Korematsu v US 1944
Furman v Georgia 1972
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
30. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
US v Nixon 1974
Olmstead v US 1928
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Miller v California 1973
31. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Near v Minnesota 1931
Engel v Vitale 1962
Oregon v Elstad 1985
United States v Lopez 1995
32. 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
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
33. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Marbury v Madison 1803
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
United States v Lopez 1995
Betts v Brady 1942
34. 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
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Engel v Vitale 1962
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Miranda v Arizona 1966
35. Established exclusionary rule
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Weeks v US 1914
Virginia v Black 2002
36. Separate but equal for races
Marbury v Madison 1803
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Bush v Gore 2000
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
37. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Smith v Allwright 1944
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Korematsu v US 1944
Powell v Alabama 1932
38. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment
Smith v Allwright 1944
Betts v Brady 1942
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
39. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
US v Nixon 1974
United States v Lopez 1995
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Barron v Baltimore 1819
40. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Miller v California 1973
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Bush v Gore 2000
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
41. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Weeks v US 1914
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
42. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
Roe v Wade 1973
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Virginia v Black 2002
43. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Near v Minnesota 1931
Bush v Gore 2000
44. 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
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Gitlow v NY 1925
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
45. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
46. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Baker v Carr 1962
Gregg v Georgia 1976
47. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
48. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Engel v Vitale 1962
US v Nixon 1974
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Lawrence v Texas 2003
49. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
United States v Lopez 1995
50. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Katz v US 1967