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Important Court Cases
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Engel v Vitale 1962
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
2. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Lawrence v Texas 2003
3. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
4. Established exclusionary rule
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Olmstead v US 1928
Weeks v US 1914
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
5. Separate but equal for races
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Virginia v Black 2002
6. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Olmstead v US 1928
7. 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
Smith v Allwright 1944
Betts v Brady 1942
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Barron v Baltimore 1819
8. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
Weeks v US 1914
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Virginia v Black 2002
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
9. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Furman v Georgia 1972
Near v Minnesota 1931
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
10. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
Virginia v Black 2002
Bush v Gore 2000
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
11. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Miranda v Arizona 1966
New York Times v US 1971
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
12. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
13. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
US v Nixon 1974
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
14. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Bush v Gore 2000
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Lawrence v Texas 2003
15. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
US v Nixon 1974
Engel v Vitale 1962
16. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Kelo v New London 2005
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
New York Times v US 1971
17. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Marbury v Madison 1803
United States v Lopez 1995
18. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
Oregon v Elstad 1985
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Gitlow v NY 1925
Dennis v US 1951
19. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)
Texas v Johnson 1989
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Kelo v New London 2005
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
20. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Smith v Allwright 1944
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Virginia v Black 2002
21. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
Kelo v New London 2005
Roe v Wade 1973
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
22. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Dennis v US 1951
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Weeks v US 1914
23. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Furman v Georgia 1972
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
24. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
25. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Schenck v US 1919
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
26. Right to privacy
US v Eichman 1990
Korematsu v US 1944
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
27. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Betts v Brady 1942
Furman v Georgia 1972
Texas v Johnson 1989
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
28. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Korematsu v US 1944
Dennis v US 1951
Furman v Georgia 1972
29. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Bush v Gore 2000
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Miller v California 1973
30. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Virginia v Black 2002
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
31. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Bush v Gore 2000
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Weeks v US 1914
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
32. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'
Betts v Brady 1942
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
33. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Clinton v New York 1998
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Powell v Alabama 1932
34. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
Virginia v Black 2002
US v Nixon 1974
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
35. 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
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Powell v Alabama 1932
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
36. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Miller v California 1973
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
37. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Clinton v New York 1998
US v Eichman 1990
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
38. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Virginia v Black 2002
Texas v Johnson 1989
39. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Schenck v US 1919
40. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Miller v California 1973
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
41. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
42. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Buckley v Baleo 1976
43. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Weeks v US 1914
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Virginia v Black 2002
44. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Katz v US 1967
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Dennis v US 1951
45. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Katz v US 1967
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
46. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
Schenck v US 1919
New York Times v US 1971
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
47. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
United States v Lopez 1995
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
48. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Gitlow v NY 1925
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
49. 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
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Furman v Georgia 1972
Kelo v New London 2005
50. Separate is not equal
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Korematsu v US 1944
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Escobedo v Illinois 1964