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Civil Rights And Civil Liberties Court Cases
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Civil Rights And Civil Liberties Court Cases
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1. In upholding several restrictive abortion regulations - the Court opened the door for state governments to enact new restrictions on abortion.

2. Mandatory prayer in schools is a violation of the establishment clause

3. The Court found that a San Francisco law banning cleaners from operating in wooden buildings violated the Fourteenth Amendment in its application

4. Students may be searched by school administrators if they have reasonable belief---this is a lower standard than probable cause.

5. This Act prescribed fines up to $10000 and prison up to 20 yrs for a variety of loosely defined antiwar activities. [free speech]

6. The arm band in schools case; First Amendment applied to public schools - and that administrators would have to demonstrate constitutionally valid reasons for any specific regulation of speech in the classroom. [symbolic speech]

7. Announced that the public and the press have a First Amendment right to attend criminal trials.

8. Case wherein the Supreme Court adopted the exclusionary rule - which bars the use of illegally obtained evidence at trial.

9. Names attached to five cases brought under the Civil Rights Act of 1857. In 1883 - the Supreme Court decided that discrimination in a variety of public accommodations could not be prohibited by the act because such discrimination was private discrimi

10. Defendants were charged and convicted for inciting resistance to the war effort and for urging curtailment of production of essential war material. They were sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the Act did not violate ci

11. The Court ruled that the recitation in public classrooms of a non-denominational prayer was unconstitutional and a violation of the establishment clause.

12. Incorporated the free speech clause of the First Amendment - ruling that the states were not completely free to limit forms of political expression.

13. If a defendant cannot afford an attorney the state must provide one. Incorporated the 6th amendment.

14. The confrontation clause of the Sixth Amendment does not guarantee defendants an absolute right to come face to face with their accusers.

15. Turned the tide in terms of constitutional litigation - ruling that the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited unreasonable classifications based on sex.

16. The Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003.

17. Established exclusionary rule [4th amendment]; Fremont Weeks was suspected of using the mail system to distribute chances in a lottery - which was considered gambling and was illegal in Missouri. State agents entered his home - searched his room - an

18. The Fifth Amendment requires that individuals arrested for a crime must be advised of their right to remain silent and to have counsel present.

19. MALDEF failed to convince the Court that educational funds should be distributed equally among school districts.

20. Identified an implied right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution using the 1st - 3rd - 4th - 5th - and 9th amendment. Hint: This case involved birth control and married couples... relate this somehow to the Griswold family vacation movies?

21. States may provide school vouchers to parents that may use the money to attend religious school. [exception to lemon v. kurtzman]

22. Extended 1981 ruling to high schools for use of facilities by religious groups after hours [est. clause and schools]

23. Tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans and limited speech [free speech]

24. Man claimed that the court should not find him guilty of polygamy since it was his religious duty. The court disagreed. [Free exercise]

25. A Colorado constitutional amendment precluding any legislative - executive - or judicial action at any state or local level designed to bar discrimination based on sexual preference was ruled not rational or reasonable.