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Civil Rights And Civil Liberties Court Cases
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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. Case wherein the Supreme Court began to formulate rules designed to make it easier for states to regulate obscene materials and to return to communities a greater role in determining What is obscene.

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

4. Held that the Justice Department does not have the authority to block physician assisted suicides.

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. 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

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

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

9. Incorporated a portion of the Fourth Amendment by establishing that illegally obtained evidence cannot be sued at trial.

10. 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

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. 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

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

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

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

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

20. 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

21. Law must be clearly secular - not prohibiting or inhibiting religion - and there should be no excessive entanglement

22. 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

23. The Fourteenth Amendment did not impose specific limitations on criminal justice in the states - and that illegally obtained evidence did not necessarily have to be excluded from trials in all cases.

24. 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

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