Civil Rights: Cases
Civil Rights: Definitions
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Civil Liberties: Cases
Civil Liberties: Definitions
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The 1954 case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal"
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
Used to determine if racial discrimination is acceptable
What is the strict scrutiny test?
100
The term for when the Supreme Court uses the 14th amendment to apply pieces of the Bill of Rights to the states
What is the incorporation doctrine?
100
The 1973 case that used the right to privacy to give women the right to an abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
100
The constitutional amendment used to incorporate pieces of the Bill of Rights
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
The first case to allow racial discrimination through the strict scrutiny test
What is Korematsu v. United States?
200
Piece of legislation that banned discrimination in public places and the workplace
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
What are the four main groups that are protected under civil rights?
What are women, people over 40, minorities, and the disabled?
200
The 1925 case that started the incorporation doctrine when it overturned Barron v. Baltimore by incorporating the freedom of speech and the freedom of press
What is Gitlow v. New York?
200
An oral statement that is false and harms another person
What is slander?
300
The case that established the mid-level review for discrimination
What is Reed v. Reed?
300
The concept that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work
What is comparable worth?
300
In order for a plaintiff to have standing to sue, his or her case must be _______.
What is ripe?
300
The 1964 case that established that, in libel cases, public figures must show that a written work was written with malice
What is New York Times Co. v. Sullivan?
300
This regulates commercial speech and focuses on prohibiting false advertisement
What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
400
The 2003 case that established that race can be a factor in college admissions, particularly to graduate school
What is Grutter v. Bollinger?
400
The kind of affirmative action plan that gives preferences to women and minorities
What are goals?
400
The three pieces of the Lemon Test that government involvement with religious organizations must meet
What is a secular purpose, involvement that does not help nor hinder religion, and no excessive entanglement with religion?
400
The 1963 case that incorporated the right to counsel
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
400
According to Miller v. California, a work or publication can be deemed obscene if it has no _____, ______, _______, or _______ value.
What is literary, artistic, political, and scientific?
500
The 1996 case that struck down Colorado's state constitution's amendment that exempted people of homosexual and bisexual orientation from protection from discrimination
What is Romer v. Evans?
500
Sexual favors that are required as a condition for a job or promotion
What is quid pro quo?
500
The defendant in two Supreme Court cases regarding affirmative action at the University of Michigan was ___ ________.
Who is Lee Bollinger?
500
The 1972 case that ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional because of its random application
What is Furman v. Georgia?
500
The four exceptions when the police do not need a search warrant for search and seizure
What is consent, frisk, when a person is being arrested, and automobiles?