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Civil Rights And Civil Liberties Court Cases
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1. 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?

2. The Supreme Court ruled that all vestiges of de jure discrimination must be eliminated at once.

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

4. A case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment required that government demonstrate a compelling government interest before denying unemployment compensation to someone Who was fired b

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

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

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

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

9. The Supreme Court used this case to end capital punishment - at least in the short run.

10. Granted indigents the right to counsel

11. Declared that a work is obscene and may be regulated by the gov if work taken as a whole appeals to prurient interests - work portrays sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and work taken as a whole lacks literary - artistic - political or scien

12. Court made it illegal to send or receive images online that are indistinguishable from that of a minor in a sexual act.

13. Held that the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protected students from being forced to salute the American flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance in school. Overturned MinersvilleISD v Gobitis [Free exercise]

14. Challenged a Louisiana statute requiring that railroads provide separate but equal accommodations for blacks and whites. The Court found that separate but equal accommodations did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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

16. 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

17. Religious organization can obtain federal grants to help solve societal problems [exception to lemon v. kurtzman]

18. 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

19. 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

20. On this appeal of the 1987 McCleskey case - the Court produced new standards designed to make it much more difficult for death-row inmates to file repeated appeals.

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

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

23. Moments of silent prayer at school are unconstitutional---moments of silence are not. [est. clause and schools]

24. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested [5th]

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

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