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

2. Supreme Court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.

3. Free exercise of religion not violation of compulsory attendance laws; Amish children do not have to go to school until they are 16---they may stop after the 8th grade

4. 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

5. Concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I. Charles Schenck was the Secretary of the Socialist party and was responsible for printing - distributing - and mailing 15000 leaflets

6. This decision expanded the types of beliefs that can be used to get conscientious objector status. The depth and fervency of the beliefs - rather than their status as part of an established religious system - became fundamental to determining which v

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

8. 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]

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

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

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

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

13. In upholding several restrictive abortion regulations - the Court opened the door for state governments to enact new restrictions on abortion.

14. 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

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

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

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

18. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found [8th]

19. 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.

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

21. 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]

22. 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

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

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

25. 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

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