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