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66 Cards in this Set
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Incorporation
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Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
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Held that the Bill of Rights restrained only the national governemnt, not the states and cities
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Gitlow v. New York (1925)
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Held that freedoms of press and speech are "fundamental personal rights and liberties protected by the due process clause of 14th Amendment from impairment by the states" as well as federal governemnt (began development of incorporation doctrine
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Religion
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Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
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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 entanglemenrt with religion (Lemon Test)
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Engel v. Vitale (1962)
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held that state officials violated the First Amendment when they wrote a prayer to be recited by the New York's schoolchildren
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Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
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upheld a state program providing families with vouchers that could be used to pay for tuition at religious schools
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School District of Abington Township, PA v. Schempp (1963)
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held that a Pennsylvania law requiring Bible reading in schools violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment
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Employment Division v. Smith (1988)
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upheld the state of Oregon's prosecution of persons using the drug peyote as part of their religious rituals (constitutional as long as it doesn’t single out one religion)
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Church of Lukimi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah (1993)
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overturned the Hialeah ordinances that prohibited the use of animal sacrifice in religious ritual, SC found no compelling state interest that justifed the abridgement of the freedom of religion
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Prior Restraint
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Near v. Minnesota (1931)
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protects newparers from prior restraint
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Speech
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Schenck v. United States (1919)
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upheld the conviction of a socialist who arged young me to resist the draft during WWI. SC declared that government can limit speech if the speech provokes a "clear and present danger" of substantive evils.
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New York Times v. U.S. (1971)
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agreed that the "no prior restraint" rule prohibited prosecution before the papers were published.
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Miller v. California (1973)
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avoided defining obscenity by holding that community standards be used to determine whether material is obscene in terms of appealing to a "purient interest" and being "patently offensive" and lacking in value
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Texas v. Johnson (1989)
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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
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New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
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established the guidelines for determining whether public officials and other public figures could win damage suits for libel. To do so, individuals must prove that the defamatory statememnts were made with "actual malice" and reckless disregard for the truth
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Association
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NAACP v. Alabama (1958)
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protected the right to assemble peacebly in this 1958 case when it decided the NAACP did not have to reveal its menvership list and this subkect its menberes to harassment
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Bear Arms
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District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)
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held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to pessess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful pruposes, such as self-defence within the home
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McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
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extended the Second Amendment's limits on restricting an idividual's right to bear arms to state and local gun control laws
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Rights of Accussed
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Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
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ruled that the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable seaches and seizures must be extended to the states
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Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
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sets guidelines for polic questioning of accused persons to protect them agaisnt self-incrimination and to pretect their right to counsel
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Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
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held that anyone accused of a felony where imprisonment may be imposed, however poor he or she might be, has a right to a lawyer
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Argerisinger v. Hamlin (1972)
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held that whenever imprisonment could be imposed, a lawyer must be provided for the accused
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War on Terrorism
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Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)
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found that detainees eld both in the United States and at navla base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had the right to challenge their detention before a judge or other netral decision maker
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Boumediene, et al v. Bush (2008)
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held that foreign rettorism suspects held at Guantanamo bay have constitutional rights to challenge their detention in U.S. Courts
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment
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Furman v. Georgia (1972)
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overturned Georgia's death penatly law because the state imposed the penalty in a "freakish" and "random" manner.
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Gregg v. Georgia (1974)
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upheld the capitol punishment, concluding that it was "an expression of society's outrage at particularly ofensive conduct….Is is an extreme sanction, suitable to the most extreme of crimes."
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McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)
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upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty against charges that It violated the Fourteenth Amendment because minority defendants were more likelt to receive the death penalty that were white defendants
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Atkins v. Virginia (2002)
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constraints on the application of the death penalty, and barring execution of mentally retarded persons
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Roper v. Simmons (2005)
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constraints on the application of the death penalty, and barring execution of those under 18 when the commited the crimes
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Privacy/Abortion
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Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
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decided that various portion of the Bill of Rights case "penumbras" (shadows)--unstated liberties implie by the explicilty stated rights--protecting a tight to privacy, including a right ot family planning between husband and wife
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Roe v. Wade (1973)
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held that a state ban on all abortions was unconstitutional. Forbaded state control over abortions during the first trimester of pregnancy, permitted states to limit abortions to protect the mother's health in the second trimester, and permitted states to ban abortion during the third trimester
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Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
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upheld the prohibition of the use of state funds or state employees to perform abortions
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Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
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loosened its standard for evaluating restrictions on abortion from one of "strict scrutiny" of any restraints on a "fundamental right" to one of "undue burden" that permits considerably more regulation
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Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)
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upheld partial birth abortion law, providing an exception to the ban in roder to save the life of the mother, finding it specific and did not subject women to significant health risks
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Civil Rights/African Americans
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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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ruled 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 territories
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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provided a constitutional justification for sgreagation by ruling that a Louisiana law requiring "equal but separate accomodations for the white and colored races" was constitutional
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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
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held that school segregation was inherently unconstitutional because it violated the Fourteenth Amendment's gurantee of equal protection. This case marked the end of legal segregation in the United States
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Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg County Schools (1971)
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upheld the busing of students to achieve racially balanced schools
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Guinn v U.S. (1915)
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held that the grandfather clause was blatantly unfair and unconstitutional
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Harper v. Virginia (1966)
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voided poll taxes in state elections
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Shaw v. Reno (1993)
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decried the creation of distrcts based soley on recial compostion, as well as the district drawers' abandonment of traditional redistricting standards such as compactness and contiguity
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Civil Rights/Hispanics
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Hernandez v. Texas (1954)
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extended protection against discrimination to Hispanics
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Plyler v. Doe (1982)
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struck down the law to withhold state funds for educating childeren who had not been legally admitted to the United States as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment bacause illegal immigrants are still people
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Civil Rights/Asian Americans
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Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
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upheld as constitutional the internment of more that 100,000 Americans of Japanese descent in encampments during WWII
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Civil Rights/Women
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Craig v. Boren (1976)
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established the "intermediate scrutiny" standard for determining gender discrimination
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Harris v. Forklift Systems (1993)
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upheld that sexual harrassment that is so pervasive as to create a hostile or abusive work environemnt is a form of gender discrimination forbidden by the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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Civil Rights/Gays and Lesbians
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Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
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overturned Bowers v. Hardwick when It violated a Texas antisodomy law on the grounds that such laws were unconstitutional intrusions of the right to privacy
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Civil Rights/Affirmative Action
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Regents of the University of Californiav. Bakke (1976)
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held that a state university could weigh race or ethnic background as one element in admissions but could not set aside paces for members of particular racial groups
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Adarand Constructors v. Pena (1995)
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held that federal programs that classify people by race, even for an ostensibly benign purpose sucha s expanding opportunities for minorities, cohould be presumed to be unconstitutional
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Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)
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struck down the University of Michigan's system of undergraduate admission in which every applicant from an underrepresented racial or ethnic minority group was automatically awarded 20 points of the 100 neede to gurantee admission
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Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
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upheld the Univeristy of Michigan law school's use of race as one of many factor in admission
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