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Supreme Court Cases Test

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Gregg v. Georgia
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Lemon v. Kurtzman
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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Planned Parenthood v. Casey
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Miranda v. Arizona
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Branzburg v. Hayes
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Texas v. Johnson
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Engel v. Vitale
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Schenck v. US
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Lynch v. Donnelly
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
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School District of Abbington Township, Pennsylvania v. Schempp
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Mapp v. Ohio
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Bakke v. Regents of the University of California
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Reed v. Reed
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Roe v. Wade
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Marbury v. Madison
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
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New York Times v. US
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(1973) In a unanimous decision, the Court held that the law's dissimilar treatment of men and women was unconstitutional.
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(1978) Ruled that a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of "affirmative action" to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances.
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(1984) The nativity scene was allowed to remain in view; Allowed holiday decorations on town property
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(1989) Flag-burning is symbolic speech with a political purpose and is protected by 1st Amendment.
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(1976) Death penalty is not "cruel and unusual punishment" in cases of murder.
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(1896) The courts ruled in favor of segregation -- "Separate but Equal".
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(1992) Upheld the constitutional right to have an abortion but lowered the standard for analyzing restrictions of that right, invalidating one regulation but upholding the others.
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(1963) Decision holding that a Pennsylvania law requiring Bible reading in schools violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
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(1971) Libel case-writer did it with intent to defame-knew it was false-wrote it with malicious intent. Public officials/figures have less privacy rights.
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(1962) Mandatory prayer in schools is a violation of the establishment clause.
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(1961) Established exclusionary rule; illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in court; Warren Court’s judicial activism.
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(1972) Ruled against a special First Amendment privilege that would allow the press to refuse to answer grand jury questions concerning news sources.
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(1973) Ruling that decriminalized abortion.
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(1803) Established the principle of judicial review
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(1819) The Court ruled that states cannot tax the federal government, i.e. the Bank of the United States; the phrase "the power to tax is the power to destroy"; confirmed the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States.
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(1857) The court ruled that slaves are property, not people. (Before 14th amendment)
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(1954) Unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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(1971) Government-supported programs in religious schools must have a primary secular purpose, neither aid nor inhibit religion, & not excessively entangle government, religion.
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(1919) Case involving limits on free speech. Established the "clear and present danger" principle.
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(1966) Ruled that detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination
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(1957) Obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment
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(1968) Criminal prohibition against burning a draft card did not violate the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech
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(1987) Upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty against charges that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment because minority defendants were more likely to receive the death penalty than White defendants.
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(1958) The Supreme Court ruled that Alabama's demand for the lists had violated the right of due process guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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(1833) the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution's Bill of Rights restricts only the powers of the federal government and not those of the state governments.
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(1824) Clarified the commerce clause and affirmed Congressional power over interstate commerce.
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(2002) Tested the allowance of school vouchers in relation to the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
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(1976) Ruling that classification of individuals based on gender must be related to an important government objective; replaced minimum rationality standard.
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(1965) Constitution implicitly guarantees citizens' right to privacy.
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(1973) Ruling that determined the obscenity clause to related to works that lack literary, artisitic, political or scientific value. (LAPS test)

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