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Court Cases

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show The 1833 Supreme Court decision holding that the Bill of Rights restrained only the national government, not the states and cities  
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show the 1925 Supreme Court decision holding that freedoms of press and speech are “fundamental personal rights and liberties protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from impairment by the states” as well as by the federal government.  
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show established that aid to church-related schools must (1) have a secular legislative purpose; (2) have a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion; and (3) not foster excessive government entanglement with religion  
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show The 2002 Supreme Court decision that upheld a state providing families with vouchers that could be used to pay for tuition at religious schools  
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show The 1962 Supreme Court decision holding that state officials violated the First Amendment when they wrote a prayer to be recited by New York’s schoolchildren  
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show a 1963 Supreme Court decision holding that a Pennsylvania law requiring Bible reading in schools violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment  
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Near v. Minnesota (1931)   show
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Schenk v. United States (1919)   show
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show a 1978 Supreme Court decision holding that a proper search warrant could be applied to a newspaper as well as anyone else without necessarily violating the First Amendment rights to freedom of the press  
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Roth v. United States (1957)   show
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show a 1973 Supreme Court decision that avoided defining obscenity by holding that community standards be used to determine whether material is obscene in terms of appealing to a “prurient interest” and being “patently offensive” and lacking in value  
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show established the guidelines for determining whether public officials and public figures could win damage suits for libel. To do so, individuals must prove that the defamatory statements were made with “actual malice” and reckless disregard for the truth  
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Texas v. Johnson (1989)   show
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show a 1974 case in which the Supreme Court held that a state could not force a newspaper to print replies from candidates it had criticized, illustrating the limited power of government to restrict the print media  
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Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission (1969)   show
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show The Supreme Court protected the right to assemble peaceably in this 1958 case when it decided the NAACP did not have to reveal its membership list and this subject its members to harassment  
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show the 1961 Supreme Court decision ruling that the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures must be extended to the states as well as to the federal government  
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show The 1966 Supreme Court decision that sets guidelines for police questioning of accused person to protect them against self-incrimination and to protect their right to counsel  
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Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)   show
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Gregg v. Georgia (1976)   show
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McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)   show
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show a state ban on all abortions was unconstitutional. forbade state control over abortions to during the first trimester of pregnancy, permitted states to limit abortions to protect the mother’s health in the second trimester, and permitted states to protect  
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Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)   show
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