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Civil Rights And Civil Liberties Court Cases
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1. Students may be searched by school administrators if they have reasonable belief---this is a lower standard than probable cause.

2. Granted indigents the right to counsel

3. You can burn the flag [symbolic speech]

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

5. By ruling that a state law violated the freedom of the press - the Supreme Court incorporated the free press provision of the First Amendment.

6. The Court ruled that a redistricting plan in Texas did not intentionally limit Latino representation.

7. Decision that limited the application of the Bill of Rights to the actions of Congress alone.

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

9. 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?

10. Limitation on the scope of Tinker ruling. prohibiting certain styles of expression that are sexually vulgar.

11. 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]

12. 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

13. Public schools may not have clergy lead prayers at graduation ceremonies [est. clause and schools]

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

15. The Court overturned the conviction of a director of a Communist youth camp under a state statute prohibiting the display of a red flag.

16. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action [free speech]

17. The Court declared that a law banning peyote use was constitutional because it did not specifically target the Native American Church.

18. Ll nine Justices of the Court voted to strike down anti-indecency provisions of the Communications Decency Act (the CDA) - finding they violated the freedom of speech provisions of the First Amendment [obscenity]

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

20. 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.

21. Nonverbal communication - such as burning a flag or wearing an armband. The Supreme Court has accorded some symbolic speech protection under the first amendment.

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

23. The Court ruled that keeping drunk drivers off the roads may be an important governmental objective - but allowing women aged eighteen to twenty-one to drink alcoholic beverages while prohibiting men of the same age from drinking is not substantially

24. You may believe whatever you wish - but you may not be able to exercise that belief.

25. A Tennessee death-row inmate who had otherwise exhausted his federal appeals was provided an exception due to the availability of DNA evidence suggesting his innocence; the case recognized the potential exculpatory power of DNA evidence.

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