Incorporation
Freedom of Religion
First and Second Amendments
Due Process and the Rights of the Accused
Equal Protection of the Laws
100
The Supreme court upholded the conviction of a socialist on the basis that the government may suppress or punish speech when it advocates the unlawful overthrow of the government.
What is Gitlow v. New York?
100
In this case, the Supreme court created a three part test for laes dealling with religious establishment.
What is Lemon v. Kurtzman?
100
The government could not stop the publication of secret U.S documents in this case, since it could not overcome the "heavy presumption against" prior restraint of the press.
What is New York Times Co. v. U.S.
100
In case, the Supreme court declared that all evidence attain illegally are inadmissible in a court.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
100
The Supreme court ruling in this case, stated that gays were free as adults to engage in the private conduct in the exercise of their liberty under the Due Process Clause.
What is Lawrence v. Texas?
200
Court case in which the concept of judicial review was established.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
200
Court ruled that a monument on the grounds of a state capital building did not violate the establishment clause.
What is Van Orden v. Perry?
200
Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America had the right of expressive association.
What is Boy Scouts of America v. Dale?
200
Court ruled that all suspects that are detained must be imformed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
200
In case, Court ruled that the policy of choosing students base on their race did not violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Grutter v. Bollinger?
300
Supreme Court upheld murder conviction on the basis that the Double Jeopardy appeal was not "essential to a fundamental scheme of ordered liberty."
What is Palko v. Connecticut?
300
Court ruled that student-led prayers at the begining of football games violated the establishment clause.
What is Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe?
300
Supreme Court concluded that the school officials did not violate the First Amendment by confiscating a pro-drug banner and suspending the student responsible for it, since schools could suppress certain kinds of political expression.
What is Morse v. Frederick?
300
The Court ruled in this case that the death penalty did not violated Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
What is Gregg v. Georgia?
300
The Court ruled in this case that Congress's ban on partial-birth abortion was constitutional and did not impose an burden on the right to an abortion.
What is Gonzales v. Carhart?
400
A Supreme court case in which the Court ruled that prior restraint on publications is a violation of free speech and press.
What is Nears v. Minnesota?
400
Court ruled that laws passed banning animal sacrifices were unconstitutional since they mostly targeted one group.
What is Church of the Lukuani Babalu Ave v. City of Hialeah?
400
The Supreme Court ruled that political desecration of the flag was permissable under the law.
What is Texas v. Johnson?
400
The Supreme Court ruled in this case that anyone in a criminal court had the right to an attorney.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
400
In this highly controversial case, the Court ruled that Missouri restrictions on adortion did not unconstitutionally infringe upon the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Webster v. Reproductive Health Services?
500
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that fifth amendment did not limit states as it limits the fedural government.
What is Barron v. Baltimore?
500
Court ruled that states can deny unemployment benefits for illegally smoking peyote during a religious ceremony, because it held that an individual's religious beliefs did not excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that government is free to regulate.
What is Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith?
500
The Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm and use that firearm in self-defense.
What is District of Columbia v. Heller?
500
Court ruled in case that schools could search students belongings for illegal countraband, since search is reasonable under the fourth Amendment.
What is New Jersey v. T.L.O?
500
In this case the Supreme court reaffirmed Roe, but the justices imposed a new standard for determining the validity of laws restricting abortions.
What is Planned Parenthood v. Casey?
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