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GoPo Sup Ct Cases 3
Review of GoPo Supreme Court Cases 3
Question | Answer |
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Held that the fed. govt. could not require state and local police to enforce a fed. law w/o providing money and state acceptance of that fed. Support | Printz v. U.S. |
Upheld the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the Pacific coast during World War II | Korematsu v. United States |
Held that a university may use admissions standards involving race or ethnicity as one part of a complex admissions process but can not have fixed quotas for students of a particular race or ethnicity | Regents of the University of California v. Bakke |
Found the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional because the 14th Amendment banned the violation of individual rights only by state governments | Civil Rights Cases |
Upheld Civil Rts. Act; reaffirmed Congress's broad powers under Commerce Clause | Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S. |
Upheld contribution limits in elections; said candidates could spend their own funds without limit; also held that since financial support of a candidate is protected under freedom of speech that individuals and outside groups could spend unlimited amount | Buckley v. Valeo |
The Court ruled in favor of students' rights to exercise their freedom of speech symbolically by wearing black armbands to protest the war in Vietnam. | Tinker v. Des Moines |
The Court ruled in this case that the government could not exercise prior restraint to prevent a newspaper from publishing negative information about the country's involvement in Vietnam | New York Times Co. v. U.S. |
Established that reapportionment for state legislature should be basedm, as much as possible, on population equality; forced many state legislatures to redraw their districting lines | Reynolds v. Sims |
Said that racial gerrymandering is subject to strict scrutiny and that districts should be compact, contiguous, and respectful of political subdivisions | Shaw v. Reno |