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26 Cards in this Set
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Barron v. Baltimore
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1833 - Bill of Rights ONLY applies to federal law. State's are exempt.
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Brown v. Board
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1954 - Segregation violates equal protection of the laws
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
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1857 - "Free soil" federal laws cannot free slaves because it deprives the master/owner of "property" without just compensation
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Engel v. Vitale
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1962 - Prayer in public school violates the Establishment Clause
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Escobedo v. Illinois
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1964 - Suspects have the right to counsel during questioning by police
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Everson v. Board
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1947 - NJ Bus Case - "the wall of separation between church and state must be high and impregnable
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Furman v. Georgia
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1972 - State capital punishment laws overturned because use of the death penalty appeared arbitrary
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Gibbons v. Ogden
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1824 - Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce.
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Gideon v. Wainwright
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1962 - Applies right to counsel (6th) to states and established right to counsel even if one can't afford it
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Gitlow v. New York
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1925 - Incorporation of freedom of speech
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Griswold v. Connecticut
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1965 - Law forbidding attempts to prevent conception illegal
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Korematsu v. US
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1944 - Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group
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Lemon v. Kurtzman
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1971 - Establishes a three party test to determining violation (excessive entanglement) of establishment clause
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Mapp v. Ohio
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1962 - Expands exclusionary rule to states
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Marbury v. Madison
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1803 - Judicial Review
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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1819 - Supremacy of federal government
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Miller v. California
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Modified Roth v. US to establish a 3-part test for deterring what "obscenity" is
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Miranda v. Arizona
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1966 - Suspect must be warned prior to questioning of constitutional rights to remain silent and have an attorney
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NY Times v. Sullivan
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1904 - Material must be written with malice and reckless disregard for truth to be considered libel and beyond 1st Amendment protection.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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1896 - Separate facilities, if equal, does not violate equal protection
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Regents of UC v. Bakke
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Achieving a diverse student body is a sufficiently compelling argument to justify consideration of race in admission decisions, however it cannot be the deciding factor and future cases are subject to case-by-case examination
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Roe v. Wade
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1973 - Establishes women's right to have an abortion during the 1st trimester as an extension of the right to privacy or an unenumerated right.
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Schenck v. US
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1919 - Establishes that free speech protection is not absolute - limits free speech in time of war if it presents a "clear and present danger"
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Texas v. Johnson
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1989 - Flag burning is constitutionally protected as "expressive speech"
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Tinker v. Des Moines
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Students do not shed the constitutional rights at the school house gate, and armbands in protest of war protected as "symbolic speech." Burden is on school to demonstrate substantial disruption before limiting student free speech
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NAACP v. Alabama
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1958 - protected the right to assemble peaceably when it decided the NAACP did not have to reveal its membership list and thus subject its members to harassment.
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