24807059 | Marbury V. Madison | Established Judicial Review | |
24807060 | McCulloch V. Maryland | Established the elastic/supremecy clause | |
24807061 | Barron V. Baltimore | Bill of Rights applies to States. Emminet domain | |
24807062 | Schenk v. US | Established clear and present danger test | |
24807063 | Gitlow V. New York | Established the incorportion doctrine. Basically, states cannot limit rights stated in the Bill of RIghts. | |
24807064 | Bradenburg v. Ohio | Government cannot punish inflamatory speech, unless it is inciting or likely to incite imminent lawless actions. | |
24807065 | Tinker V. Des Moines | Students have to right of Expression | |
24807066 | Fujishima v. Board of Education | Established school newspaper rights | |
24807067 | Buckley V. Valeo | Money spent by an individual in an election cannot be limited. | |
24807068 | Bethel v. Fraser | Limited free speech in schools | |
24807069 | Texas v. Johnson | Flag Burning is legal | |
24807070 | Reno v. ACLU | freedom of expression on internet | |
24807071 | Near V. Minnesota | no prior restraints on publications | |
24807072 | NY Times v. US | made it possible for the New York Times and Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers. Also prior restraint. | |
24810226 | Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier | Schools able to limit what goes into school publications | |
24810227 | West Virgina Board of Education v. Barnette | Cannot force students to say the plege of allegiance | |
24810228 | Everson v. Board of Education | Government able to provied aid to parachiol schools. | |
24810229 | Engle v. Vitale | No organized prayer in public schools | |
24810230 | Lemon v. Kurzman | No excessive entanglement with religion by the government | |
24810231 | Wallace v. Jaffree | No forced silent prayers | |
24810232 | Roth v. US | Obsecenity is banned if found to be wayward of community standards | |
24810233 | Miller v. California | Art not obscene if it has an artistic value. | |
24810234 | Printz v. US | Gave government the right to regulate hand gun sales. | |
24810235 | Weeks v. US | No illegal seizures, and those items cannot be used for evidence in a federal court. | |
24810236 | Mapp v. Ohio | decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures", may not be used in criminal prosecutions in state courts, as well as federal courts. | |
24810237 | New Jersey v. TLO | search and seizure by school officials without a warrant was constitutional as long as the search was deemed reasonable given the circumstances | |
24810238 | Massachusetts v. Shepard | Reversed the decision of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts and held that evidence is admissible, even if gathered under a defective search warrant, as long as the police acted in good faith in executing what they believed was a valid warrant. | |
24810239 | Vernonia v. Acton | Drug testing of Athletes | |
24810240 | Gideon v. Wainwright | Right to a lawyer | |
24810241 | Escobedo v. Ilinois | Right to Counsel | |
24810242 | Miranda v. Arizona | Rights read to an accused person. Miranda Rights | |
24810243 | Gregg v. Georgia | Death penalty is not cruel and unusual | |
24810244 | Thompson v. Oklahoma | No Death penalty for those under 16 years of age. | |
24810245 | Griswold v. Connecticut | Birth Control, but really the right to privacy | |
24810246 | Roe v. Wade | Abortion is legal before the "fetus becomes viable" also a right to privacy | |
24810247 | Webster v. Reproductive Health Service | State will not pay abortion unless the mother/fetus is in danger. | |
24810248 | Dred Scott v. Sanford | Slaves were not people, and could not bring suits against the courts. | |
24810249 | Plessy v. Ferguson | Seperate but equal | |
24810250 | Brown v. Board of Education | Overturned the "seperate but equal clause" and desegragated schools. | |
24810251 | Regents of Univ. Of CA v. Bakke | Affirmitve action | |
24810252 | Baker v. carr | Same number of voters in each district | |
24810253 | Westberry v. Sanders | Districts have to be aproximately equal in population. | |
24810254 | Clinton v. City of New York | Line item veto is unconstitutional | |
24810255 | Roper v. Simmons | Cannot execute minors | |
24810256 | Grutter v. Bollinger | Upheld affirmitve action/ race can be considered. |
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