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Civil Rights And Civil Liberties Court Cases
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1. You may believe whatever you wish - but you may not be able to exercise that belief.

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

3. 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

4. A policy permitting student-led - student-initiated prayer at football games violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment [est. clause and schools]

5. The Court fashioned the direct incitement test for deciding whether certain kinds of speech could be regulated by the government. This test holds that advocacy of illegal action is protected by the First Amendment unless imminent action is intended a

6. 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?

7. In this case - the Court ruled that the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was not unconstitutional.

8. Court ruled that a DC law banning hand guns was unconstitutional.

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

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

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

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

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

17. Granted indigents the right to counsel

18. You can burn the flag [symbolic speech]

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

20. Court ruled that laws banning animal sacrifice were unconstitutional because they targeted the Santeria religion specifically.

21. Peremptory challenges cannot be used to exclude all people of a given race (in this case - African Americans) from a jury pool.

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

23. 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.

24. Prior restraint case; the Court ruled that a trial judge could not prohibit the publication or broadcast of information about a murder trial.

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