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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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






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






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






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






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






11. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady






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






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






14. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






16. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






17. Separate is not equal






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






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






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






21. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






22. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments






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






24. You can burn the flag






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






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






27. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






28. 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






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






30. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned






31. Established exclusionary rule






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






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






34. Right to privacy






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






36. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






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






39. Established judicial review






40. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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