More Court Cases

Question 1

Everson versus Board of Education

Answer 1

Reimbursing catholic schools for schools transportation doesn’t violate the establishment clause because it secular it is just to help children plus families

Question 2

Lemon versus Kurtzman

Answer 2

Lemon test:
established secular purpose
no advancing or inhibiting any religion over another and no excessive government entanglement

Question 3

Engel v vitale

Answer 3

Prayer is a nondenominational schools cannot force people to stand there shouldn’t be a prayer at all

Question 4

Zorach. V Clauson

Answer 4

New York City schools had a program where people could leave and go learn religious stuff at other places and this didn’t interfere with establishment clause because encouraged free religion and didn’t force anyone know public facilities were used

Question 5

Employment division versus Smith

Answer 5

Drug rehabilitation clinic members of Native American Church took spiritually illegal drugs in Oregon and were fired they couldn’t get their jobs back but they could use drugs On American grounds free exercise

Question 6

Edwards versus Aguillard

Answer 6

Public schools try to make teachers teach evolution plus creationism which was considered unconstitutional and it broke the lemon test because there was more Christian than anything else

Question 7

Vernonia school v acton

Answer 7

Investigation that athletes were on drugs indicated random drug test which made them unable to participate

the schools act as parents for student safety and students chose to do this as they can get tested which is also called all voluntary action

Question 8

Gideon v wainwright

Answer 8

Arrested for rape and kidnapping the police didn’t tell him his rights

Rights must be red or the confession or info is in admissible

Question 9

Miranda versus Arizona

Answer 9

Broke into a building arrested but couldn’t afford attorney so they didn’t have to give him a lawyer because not a capital crime

Everyone has the right to an attorney even if they can’t afford it

Question 10

Goss versus Lopez

Answer 10

Nine kids in Ohio or suspended for protest and refused to hearing

Students must be given a hearing and noticed students are protected differently under due process

Question 11

Mapp versus Ohio

Answer 11

Women with obscene objects was asked to be searched and said no but policed kick down the door and took her stuff

Must get rid of evidence because it violated the rule to be safe in own home/property

Question 12

New Jersey versus TLO

Answer 12

Caught smoking plus purse with drugs and was accused plus suspended

Searches and seizures don’t require probable cause or warrant because in school you only need reachable suspicion

Question 13

California versus Greenwood

Answer 13

Garbage cans are not protected under the fourth amendment and is considered legal search

Question 14

In re gault

Answer 14

Violated sixth amendment no attorney no notice to your parents can’t just take you

Question 15

Reynolds versus US

Answer 15

Believe what you want but some practices may be illegal

Question 16

Griswold versus Connecticut

Answer 16

Try to make it illegal to use contraceptive which was considered unconstitutional because it violated due process privacy

Question 17

Dennis versus US

Answer 17

Join communist party and arrested because violent overthrow but was concerned unconstitutional because he wasn’t inciting imminent lawless action

Question 18

National Socialist party versus Skokie

Answer 18

Nazis wanted to march for the super Jewish areas and they were allowed to you because of political speech

Question 19

Wisconsin versus Yoder

Answer 19

Amish parents refused to send their kids to school after eighth grade and court said they didn’t have to because of free exercise clause

Question 20

Thompson versus Oklahoma

Answer 20

Kid murdered neighbors and was charged with death penalty (adult charge) considered unconstitutional because he was a minor

Question 21

West Virginia versus Barnett

Answer 21

Everyone had to salute the bow or else they get expelled forcing people to salute flag is unconstitutional and violates freedom of expression

Question 22

Bush versus Gore

Answer 22

State said it was a fair election and therefore could not recount

Question 23

Row versus Wade

Answer 23

Jane row challenged Texas pro-life abortion laws

Quartz agreed that this was against the ninth amendment which protects personal rights to privacy and the 14th amendment which says everyone has equal protection under due process

Question 24

Kelo v new London

Answer 24

The government can take land and give it to a private group but only if the goal is to promote the well-being of the public

Question 25

US versus Russell

Answer 25

An undercover officer cannot try to induce a person to commit a crime

Question 26

US versus Nixon

Answer 26

Private court said that Nixon had to share the tapes with the public because the president has to follow some form of due process and there is no executive privileges when it comes to criminal offenses or national security

Question 27

Jones versus Clinton

Answer 27

Paula Jones Sue's Bill Clinton for sexual-harassment. Supreme Court says the president has to answer to the lawsuit

Question 28

Wolf versus Colorado

Answer 28

Supreme Court says it legal evidence can be used in trial but it was later overturned by map versus Ohio and the exclusionary rule

Question 29

Barron versus Baltimore

Answer 29

Two guys sued the mayor of Baltimore for damages to their property. The decision held at the bill of rights only apply to the federal government later overturned by Gitlow