Final Matching Flashcards
Lawrence v. Texas
Specifically makes homosexual sex a crime, court sides with Lawrence defying starry decisis of Bowers versus Hardwick
Deshaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services
Child abuse, positive and negative liberties. Rules that a state government agencies failure to prevent child abuse by custodial parent does not violate the child for the purposes of the 14th amendment
Schneck v. United States
You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater. Sends a leaflet around the country comparing the draft to slavery, court sided with United States
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
Brings forth the case of fighting words. Jehovah’s Witness who preaches on a street corner and is attacked by a crowd of 50 people get in a fight with a police officer and establishes exceptions to freedom of speech
Everson v. Board of Education
Says there is a wall of liberation between church and state school uses taxpayer money to provide transportation, problem because it transports to religious schools, Court sides with the schools though because families have the option to choose where they want to go
Sherbert v. Verner
Unemployed Jewish women can’t get a job because her sabbath day is Saturday, creates this sherbet test which asks 1. Is there is a compelling government interest? and 2. Is this interest being pursued in the least restrictive means?
Employment Division v. Smith
Native American drug rehab workers are fired from their jobs because of smoking peyote as a religious ceremony. Denied unemployment because there is legitimate cause, Court sides against them because “we cannot allow everyone to be a law into themselves”
Plessy v. Ferguson
Louisiana railway cars are segregated, a man who is one eighth black cannot sit in the white car because of the one drop rule, establish a separate but equal
Brown v. Board of Education
NAACP challenges inequalities in elementary school systems, brings forth results of the doll test proving segregation changes the mental framework and self worth of children, decide separate but equal is inherently unequal
Civil Rights Cases 1883
Civil rights act of 1875 says if you discriminate against someone through your business you owe them $500 or spend a year in jail, this civil rights act overturns that one because the court decides this lets the government go beyond the power of enforcement
Shelly v. Kraemer
St. Louis neighborhood sign covenants saying they will not sell their houses to back or Mongolian people. Shelley family moves to Missouri and buys home from someone who had signed this contract Missouri state court sides against them because this was a private contract, but the Supreme Court overturn this because of active discrimination from the state
Grutter v. Bollinger
Michigan law school denies a white student who claims she would have been invented if she was of a different race, Court sides against her because though the school gives preference to minority students there is no point system. “We expect 25 years from now the use of racial preference will no longer be needed to further diversification”
