Landmark Cases Flashcards

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Collin v. Smith

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The nazi party may march through a largely Jewish neighborhood

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Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire

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“Fighting words are not protected by the first amendment

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McConnell v. Federal election commission

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Upholds 2002 campaign finance reform law

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Miller v. California

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Obscenity defined as appealing to prurient interests of an average person with materials that lack literary, artistic, political, or scientific value

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New York Times v. Sullivan

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To libel a public figure, there must be “actual malice”

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Reno v. ACLU

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A law that bans sending “indecent” material to minors over the Internet is unconstitutional because “indecent” is too vague and broad a term

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Schenck v. United States

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Speech may be punished if it created a clear-and-present danger test of illegal acts

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Gitlow v. New York

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Supreme Court says the first amendment applies to the states

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Palko v. Connecticut

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Supreme Court states that states must observe all “fundamental” liberties

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Texas v. Johnson

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There may not be a law to ban flag-burning

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Engel v. Vitale

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There may not be a prayer, even a nondenominational one, in public schools

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Everson v. Board of Education

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The wall-of-separation principle is announced

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Lee v. Weisman

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Public schools may not have clergy lead prayers at graduation ceremonies

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Lemon v. Kurtzman

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Three tests are described for deciding whether the government is improperly involved with teligion

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Santa Fe independent school district v. Doe

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Students may of lead prayers before the start of a football game at a public school

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Zelman v. Simmons-Harris ?

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Voucher plan to pay school bills is upheld

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Zorauch v. Clauson

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States may allow students to be released from public schools to attend religious instruxtion

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Dickerson v. United States

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The Mapp decision is based to the constitution and it cannot e altered by congress passing a law.

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Gideon v. Wainwright

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Persons charged with a crime have a right to an Attorney even if they cannot afford lbe

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Mapp v. Ohio

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Evidence illegally gathered by the police may not be used in a criminal trial

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Miranda v. Arizona

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Court describes ruling that police must give to arrested persons

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Rasul v. Bush

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Terrorist detainees must have access to a neutral court to decide if they are legally hekd

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United States v. Leon

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Illegally obtained evidence may be used in a trial if it was gathered in good faith without violating the principles of the Mapp decision

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What are civil liberties?

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Protections from the Avis’s of government power by all americans

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What are civil rights?
Protections for discrimination based on race, gender, or other minority status
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Barron v. Baltimore
The bill of rights restricted the national government but not the state governments
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Gitlow v. New York
State limits on speech and the press could not exceed the limits allowed the national government.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Uphel separate-but equal facilities for white and black people on railroad cars
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Brown v. Board of education
Separate public schools are inherently unequal, thus starting racial desegregation
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Green v. County school board of new kent county
Banned a freedom-of-choice plan for integrating schools, suggesting that blacks an whites must actually attend racially mixed schools
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Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
Approved busing an redrawing district lines as ways of integrating public achools
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Civil disobedience
Opposing a law by peacefully disobeying it an accepting the resultant punishment
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Reed v. Reed
Gender discrimination violates the equal protection clause of the constitution
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Craig v. Boren
Gender discrimination can only be justified if it serves "important governmental objectives" and be "substantially related to those objectives"
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Roster v. Goldberg
Congress can draft men without drafting women
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United States v. Virginia
State may not finance an all-male military school
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Griswold v. Connecticut
Found a "right to privacy" in the constitution that would ban any state law against selling contraceptives
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Roe v. Wade
State laws against abortion were unconstitutional
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Webster v. Reproductive health services
Allowed states to ban abortions from public hospitals an permitted doctors to serif fetuses were viable
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Planned parenthood v. Casey
Reaffirmed Roe v. Wade but upheld certain limits on its use
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Stenberg v. Carhart
States may not ban partial birth abortions if they fail go allow an exception to protect the health of the mother
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Lawrence v. Texas
State law may not ban sexual relations between same-sex partners
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Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
A private organization may ban gays from its membership