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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. You can burn the flag






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






11. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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






13. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






14. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established






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






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






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






18. Established exclusionary rule






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






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






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






22. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke






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






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






25. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






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






27. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






28. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause






29. Separate is not equal






30. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






31. 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






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






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






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






35. Established judicial review






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






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






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






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






40. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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