14/15/16 test court cases

Question 1

Marbury vs. Madison

Answer 1

If a law/presidential action conflicts with the constitution, it is void

Question 2

Brown vs Board of education

Answer 2

Supreme court strikes down racially mandates segregation

Question 3

Row vs Wade

Answer 3

legalized abortion

Question 4

Wahsington vs Glucksberg

Answer 4

suicide is not a fundamental right

Question 5

Vacci vs Quill

Answer 5

Supreme court said the NY law banning physician assisted suicide is valid

Question 6

Lemon vs Kurtzman

Answer 6

States can not pay parochial school teacher salaries to teach secular subjects-3 pronged test

Question 7

Agostini vs Felton

Answer 7

Public schools teachers can teach congressionally mediated course to disadvantaged kids in NY parochial schools-gov must be neutral and not excessively entangled with religion

Question 8

Zelmon vs. Simmons-Harris

Answer 8

Program did not favor religious or nonreligious schools when aid went to a student or parent who then chose a school

Question 9

Lynch vs Donnelly

Answer 9

Display of religious artifacts on public property does not violate the establishment clause

Question 10

Engel vs Vitale

Answer 10

Prayer approved by state schools is unconstitutional

Question 11

Sherbert vs Verner

Answer 11

you cant be denied unemployment compensation for being unable to work for religious purposes

Question 12

Schenck vs U.S.

Answer 12

clear and present danger test during speech

Question 13

Abrams vs U.S.

Answer 13

court upheld Abram’s criminal conviction for distributing leaflets denouncing the war and US opposition to the Russian Revolution

Question 14

Gitlow vs. NY

Answer 14

court upheld Gitlow getting arrested for distributing copies of a “left wing manifesto” calling for socialism through strikes and working class uprisings

Question 15

Brandenburg vs Ohio

Answer 15

Reversed Brandenburg’s conviction for racial strife’s and threatening officials

Question 16

Tinker vs Des Moines Independent County School District

Answer 16

overturned suspension of 3 students wearing armbands protesting vietnam war because there was no evidence a disturbance would be cause

Question 17

Chaplinsky vs New Hampshire

Answer 17

Upheld Chaplinsky’s conviction for using fighting words meant to inflict injury and disturb peace

Question 18

Cohen vs CA

Answer 18

The court reversed the arrest of someone’s shirt saying “fuck the draft stop the vietnam war”

Question 19

Reno vs ACLU

Answer 19

internet is more analogous to print media than tv and free speech applies

Question 20

New York Times vs Sullivan

Answer 20

All statements, even false ones are protected unless published with actual malice

Question 21

Near vs Minnesota

Answer 21

Struck down a law saying that declaring prior restraint places an unacceptable burden on free press

Question 22

New York Times vs US

Answer 22

Pentagon papers: court ruled government had not met the requirement of proof that harm would result from publication of the papers

Question 23

District of Columbia vs Heller

Answer 23

overturned a law barring private possession of handguns and required the dissembly or use of trigger blocks on rifles and shotguns

Question 24

Palko vs Connecticut

Answer 24

Upheld Palko’s second conviction if getting sentenced to death because only fundamental rights are absorbed by the 14th Amendment

Question 25

Duncan vs Louisiana

Answer 25

the right to a jury trial in criminal cases applied to all nonpetty criminal cases

Question 26

Gideon vs Wainright

Answer 26

everyone has the right to an attorney

Question 27

Wolf vs Colorado

Answer 27

the core of the 4th Amendment is a fundamental right(illegal search/seizure)

Question 28

Mapp vs Ohio

Answer 28

Evidence obtained by illegal search and seizure is not allowed in a state court

Question 29

US vs Leon

Answer 29

Evidence found as a result of a mistakenly issued warrant is ok

Question 30

Hamdan vs Rumsfield

Answer 30

unbounded authority in the military commissions for enemy comabatants in Guantanamo bay is unconstitutional

Question 31

Boumediene vs Bush

Answer 31

Prisoners in Guantanamo have a right to challenge their detentions in federal courts

Question 32

Griswold vs Connecticut

Answer 32

court struck down a CT statute making birth control devices a crime, zone of provacy protected by 9th Amendment

Question 33

Roe vs Wade

Answer 33

legalized abortion

Question 34

Webster vs Reproductive Health Services

Answer 34

The court upheld a law that denied use of public employees/facilities for abortion unless the woman’s life is danger

Question 35

Planned Parenthood vs Casey

Answer 35

court struck down a Nebraska law banning partial birth abortion

Question 36

Bowers vs Hardwick

Answer 36

the constitution does not protect homosexual relations between consenting adults, even in their own homes

Question 37

Lawrence and Garner vs Texas

Answer 37

A YX law banning homosexual sodonomy was void bc it intruded on privacy without furthering the state

Question 38

Swann vs. Mecklenburg county schools

Answer 38

court ruled right of lower courts to order busing of children to ensure desegregation

Question 39

Grove city vs bell

Answer 39

departments of institution receiving gov. funds cant discriminate, but the rest if the institution can