Important Supreme Court Cases
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1. Using the commerce clause as justification for this federal government ruling - aid that places of public acccommodation cannot pick and choose guests

2. A 1995 Supreme Court decision holding that federal programs that classify people by race - even for an ostensibly benign purpose such as expanding opportunities for minorities - should be presumed to be unconstitutional.

3. Less blatant gerrymandering and redistricting was subject to judicial approval

4. 1978 - Nazi group wanted to mark in neighborhood with high percentage of Jewish residents; village tried to prevent march by passing ordinances on parades that targeted the nazis; Illinois Supreme Court said march could not be forbidden because no on

5. First Amendment right of expressive association. BSA is allowed to dismiss gay leaders because it is a private institution

6. A case in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld federal limits on campaign contributions and ruled that spending money to influence elections is a form of constitutionally protected free speech. The court also stated candidates can give

7. The Supreme Court held that the 1996 Communications Decency Act was unconstitutional - since it was overly broad and vague in its regulation of speech on the internet - and it attempted to regulate indecent speech - which is protected.

8. Affirmative action case (lost) ; race could be used as a factor in admissions as long as there was no point system and race was not a major factor; upheld Bakke case

9. Husband permission for abortion is unconstitutional (1992)

10. Law must be clearly secular - not prohibiting or inhibiting religion - and there should be no excessive entanglement

11. Expanded the protection of the Fourth Amendment to include conversations - not just things.

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

13. Established national abortion guidelines; trimester guidelines; no state interference in 1st; state may regulate to protect health of mother in 2nd; state may regulate to protect health or unborn child in 3rd. inferred from right of privacy establish

14. 1969 - The First Amendment - as applied through the Fourteenth - did not permit a public school to punish a student for wearing a black armband as an anti-war protest - absent any evidence that the rule was necessary to avoid substantial interference

15. Busing Students to promote intergration is constitutional.

16. A 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.

17. A landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. In the case - the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to affor

18. Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states (evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)

19. 1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. It was not until 1988 that Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay $20 -000 to each survivor.

20. The 1833 Supreme Court decision holding that the bill of rights restrained only the national government - not the states and cities.

21. Said that protection against double jeopardy is not guaranteed in the Fourteenth Amendment.

22. Right to Counsel during Interrogations

23. Supreme Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police.

24. Upheld the death penalty was NOT cruel and unusual punishment

25. Determined that the state could deny unemployment benefits to a person fired for violating a state prohibition on the use of peyote - even though the use of the drug was part of a religious ritual. Although states have the power to accommodate otherw

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