Court Cases About Civil Right/ Civil Liberties
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| New York Times vs. Sullivan | For public officials, must prove that harm was meant with actual malice, reckless disreguard for the truth. (Libel of Politician)
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| Griswold vs. Connecticut | Righ to privacy (To family between a husband and a wife)
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| Gregg vs. Georgia | Death penalty legal-not cruel and unusual
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| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Racial discrimination in hotels, motels, restauraunts is illigal. Also, no job discrimination.
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| Roe vs. Wade | Banning abortion is unconstitutional
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Ended literacy test, Register African American voters
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| Brown vs. Board | School segregation is unconstitutional
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| Plessy vs. Ferguson | "Separate but equal"
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| 9th Amendment | Enumeration in constitution
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| Lemon vs. Kurtzman | Aid to church schools must: 1.) Have secular legisilative purpose 2.) Not help or hurt religion 3.) not have excessive government entanglement with religion
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| Wisconsin vs. Yoder | Amish parents can take kids out of school after eigth grade. (Did not harm the public)
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| Texas vs. johnson | Struck down law banning burning flag because that is symbolic speech.
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| Schenck vs. US | Gov can limit speech if it provokes "clear and present danger" of substansive evils.
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| 15th Amendment | African Americans can vote.
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| Regents of University of California vs. Bakke | Forbids rigis racial quota for med. school admissions but does not forbid considering race as a factor when deciding admissions.
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| Reynolds vs. Sims | State Senates apportioned by "one person, one vote"
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| Furman vs. Georgia | Death penalty not cruel and unusual if fairly applied
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| Gideon vs. Wainwright | Right to a lawyer (6th amendment)
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| Miranda vs. Arizona | guidelines for police questioning to protect from self-incriminating statements
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| Mapp vs. Ohio | 4th amendment seach/seizures rule must be extended to states as well as federal governments
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| Near vs. Minnesota | 1st Amendment protects newspaper from prior restraint (censorship)
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| Abington vs. Schempp | Pennsylvania law requiring Bible reading in schools violates establishment clause in 1st Amendment
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| Engel vs. Vitale | Officials violated 1st amendment when wrote prayer for New York school children
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| Barron vs. Baltimore | Federal Bill of Rights applies to federal government
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| 14th Amendment | States must follow Bill of Rights
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| Gitlow vs. New York | Freedom of the press and speech- a fundamental protected by due process and 14th amendment from the states and federal government.
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| Tinker vs. Des Moines | Suspension from school because of black arm bands is illegal because speech is more than just words
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| Miller vs. California | Avoids defining obsenity- community standards are used. "No purient interest, or patently offensive, must have SOME value"
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