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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






9. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action






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






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






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






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






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






15. You can burn the flag






16. Separate but equal for races






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






18. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity






19. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






20. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






21. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






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






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






32. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






34. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






36. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. Established judicial review






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






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






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






49. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






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