Chapter 4 Court Cases

Front 1

Barron v. Baltimore

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The 1833 Supreme Court decision holding that the Bill of Rights for staying only to the national government, not the states and cities.

Front 2

Gitlow v. New York

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The 1925 Supreme Court decision holding that freedoms of press and speech are "fundamental personal rights and liberties protected by the Due Process Clause of the 14th amendment from impairment by states" as well as by the federal government.

Front 3

Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

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The 2002 Supreme Court decision that upheld a state providing families with vouchers that could be used to pay for tuition at religious schools.

Front 4

Engel v. Vitale

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A 1962 Supreme Court decision holding that state officials violated the first amendment when they wrote a prayer to be recited by New York's schoolchildren.

Front 5

School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. Schempp

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In 1963 Supreme Court decision holy buddy Pennsylvania law requiring Bible reading in schools violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Front 6

Near v. Minnesota

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The 1931 Supreme Court decision holding that the first time and protects newspapers from prior restraint.

Front 7

Schenck v. United States

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The 1919 decision upholding the conviction of a socialist who had urged young men to resist the draft during World War I.

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Zurcher v. Stanford daily

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The 1978 Supreme Court decision holding that a search warrant could be applied to a newspaper as well as to anyone else without necessarily violating the First Amendment rights to freedom of the press.

Front 9

Roth v. United States

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A 1957 Supreme Court's decision ruling that "obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press."

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Miller v. California

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A 1973 Supreme Court decision that avoided defining obscenity by holding that community standards be used to determine whether material is obscene in terms of appealing to a "prurient interest" in being "patently offensive" in a lacking in value.

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Texas v. Johnson

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The 1989 case in which the Supreme Court struck down a law banning the burning of the American flag on the grounds that such action was symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment.

Front 12

Miami Herald publishing company v. Tornillo

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A 1974 case in which the Supreme Court held that a state could not forcing a favor to prevent replies from candidates it has criticized, illustrating the limited power of government to restrict the print media.

Front 13

Red Lion broadcasting company v. Federal Communications Commission

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A 1969 case in which the Supreme Court upheld restrictions on radio and television broadcasting.

Front 14

NAACP v. Alabama

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The Supreme Court protected the right to assemble peaceably in this 1958 case when it decided the NAACP did not have to reveal its membership list in this subject its members to harassment.

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Mapp v. Ohio

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The 1961 Supreme Court decision rolling up the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizures must be extended to the states as well as to the federal government.

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Miranda v. Arizona

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The 1966 Supreme Court decision that fits guidelines for police questioning of accused persons to protect them against self-incrimination and to protect their right to counsel.

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Gideon v. Wainwright

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The 1963 Supreme Court decision holding anyone accused of a felony where imprisonment may be imposed, however poor he or she might be, has a right to a lawyer.

Front 18

Gregg v. Georgia

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The 1976 Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty.

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Mcleskey v. Kemp

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The 1987 Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty against charges that is violated the Fourteenth Amendment because minority defendants were more likely to receive the death penalty than were White defendants.

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Roe v. Wade

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The 1973 Supreme Court decision holding that a state ban on all abortions was unconstitutional.

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Planned Parenthood v. Casey

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A 1992 case in which the Supreme Court loosen it standard for evaluating restrictions on abortion from one of the "strict scrutiny" of any restraints on a "fundamental right" to one of the "undue burden" that permits considerably more regulation.

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New York Times v. Sullivan

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Decided in 1964, this case established the guidelines for determining whether public officials and public figures could win damage suits for libel.

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Lemon v. Kurtzman

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The 1971 Supreme Court decision that established that aid to church- related schools must (1) have a secular legislative purpose; (2) have a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion; and (3) not foster excessive government entanglement with religion.