Court Cases

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Barron v. Baltimore

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1833 Holding that the Bill of Ringhts restrained only the national government, not stats and citys

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Gitlow v. New York

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1925 Holding that freedoms of press and speech are 'fundamental personal rights and liberties protected by the due process clause of the 14th, from impairment by the states' as well as the federal government.

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Lemon v. Kurtzman

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1971 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 relgion.

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Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

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2002 Upheld stat providing families with vouchers that could be used to pay for tuition at religious schools

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Engel v. Vitale

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1962 Holding that state officials violatedthe 1st when they wrote a prayer to be read by NY school kids

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School Dis. of Abington Town. PA v. Schempp

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Holding that PA law requiring Bible reading in schools violated the establishment clause of the 1st

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Near v. Minnesota

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1931 Holding that the 1st protects newspapaers from Prior restrant

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Scheneck v. Us

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1919 Up Holding the convection of a socialist who had urged young men to resist the draft during WW1.

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When can GOV. limit specch?

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When it provokes 'clear and oresent danger' of substantive evils' Schenck v. us

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Zurcher v. Standford Daily

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1978 Holding that a proper search warrent cauld be applied to a newspaper as well as anyone without necessarily violating the 1st rights to the freedom of the press

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Roth v. US

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1957 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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1973 Holding that community standards be used to determine whether material is obscene in terms of appealing to a 'prurient intrest' and being 'patently offensive' and lacking value

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NY Times v. Sullivan

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1964 Established guildlines for determining whether public figures could win damage suits for libel

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Texas v. Johnson

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1989 Strruck down law banning flag burning on the groups it was symbolic speech protected by the 1st

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Miami Herald Publishing Company v. Tornillo

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1974 Held that a state could not force a newspaper to print replies from the candidates it had criticized, illustrating the limited power of the goverment to restrict the print media

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Red Lion Broadcasting Company v. FCC

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1969 Upheld restrictions on radio and television broadcasting. Much tighter than print medai

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NAACP v. Alabama

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1958 Protected the right to peacefuly assemble, they did not have to reveal its membership list

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Mapp v. Ohio

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1961 14th protection against unreasonable searches and seizures must be extended to the states as well as to the fed. gov.

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Miranda v. Arizona

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1966 set guildlines for police questioning of accused persons to protect them agianst self incrinmination and to protect their rights to counsel

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Gideon v. Wainwright

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1963 Holding that anyone accused of a fenoly where imprisionment may be imposed, however poor, has a right to a lawyer

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Gregg v. Georgia

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1976 Upheld constitutionality of the death penalty, 'it is an extrem sanction, suitable to the most extrem of crimes' Not crule and unusual punishment

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McCleskey v. Kemp

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1987 Upheld constitutionality of the death penalty agiasst charges that it violated the 14th because minoirty defendants were more likely to get it than whites

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Roe v. Wade

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1973 Holding that a state ban on all abortions was unconstitutional.Forbade state control over abortions during the 1st trimester.

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Planned Parenthood v. Casey

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1992 Loosened its standard for evaluating restrictions on abortion fromo one of 'stirt scrutiny' of any restraiints on a 'fundamental right' to one of 'undue burden' that permits considerably more regulation

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Scott v. Sndford

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1857 Ruling that a slave who had escaped to a free state enjoyed no rights as a citizen and that Congress had no authority to ban slavery in the territoires

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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1896 Louisiana law'Equal but separate accommodations for the white and coloured races' was constitutional

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Brown v. Board of Education

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1954 School Segragation was inherenlty un constitutional because it violated the 14th guarantee of equal protection. Marked end of legal segragatioon

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Korematsu v. US

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1944 Upheld the Consititionality of the internment of more tha 100.000 Americans of Jappanese descent in ww2

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Reed v. Reed

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1971 First Upheld claim for gender discrimination

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Craig v. Boren

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1976 Established the 'medium scruntiny' standard for determining gender discrimination

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Regents of the Uni, of Cali. v. Bakke

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1978 Holding that a state Uni could not admit less qualifed individuals soley because of their race

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Adarand Constructors v. Pena

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1995 Holding that fedarl programs that classify people by race, even fot an ostensibly benign purpose such as expanding opportunites for minorities, should be presumed to be unconstitutional

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Grutter v. Bollinger

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race as a plus in the admissions process was narrowly tailored and that it made individualistic, holistic, reviews of applicants in a non-mechanical fashion

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Johnson v. Sanata Clara

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affirmative action plans were both legal and constitutional

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U Stellworkers of America v. Weber

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1979 Found that specail trining programm (at Kaiser Aluminum Com.), which employed a quota for minorities was intended to rectify years of past employment discrimination as Kaiser

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Bowers v. Hardwick

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1986 allowed states to ban homosexual relations, rulings permititng the armed forces to exclude homosexuals

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Romer v. Evans

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1996 Vioded a state constitutional amendment approved b voters of Colorado that denied homosexuals protection against discrimination

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Lawerence v. Texas

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overtuen Romer v. Evans, court didnt have that power