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12/08/2011

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Lemon V Kurtzman
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1st amendment,freedom of religon, establishment clause violated
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Engel V Vitale
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1st amendment, religon, establishment clause violated. Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional for states to establish an official school prayer
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Wallace V Jaffree
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1st amendment and was made applicable by the 14th amendment, religon, outlawed school prayer
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Edwards v. Aguillard
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Teaching creationism in public schools is unconstitutional because it attempts to advance a particular religion.
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Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
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1st amendment, religon Teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause
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Rosenburg V University of VA
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1st amendment,Religon,The University's denying funds available to other student publications, but not to a publication produced from a religious viewpoint,
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Gideon V Wainwright
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6th Amendment, viable due to 14th amendments due process clause. If you dont have a lawyer they will provide one. *Need to know background on thi case
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Griswald V Conneticut
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9th amendment,violated the right to marital privacy. allows use of contraceptives
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Planned Parenthood V Casey
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14th Amendment,law that required spousal notification prior to obtaining an abortion was invalid
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Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health
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14th Amendment, feeding tube can be removed if there is no chance of improving and it was the wish of the patient before there were immobilized, due process clause
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Washington V Glucksberg
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14th Amendment, assited suicide not covered in due process clause.
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Furman V Georgia
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The arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
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Gregg v Georgia
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The imposition of the death penalty does not, automatically, violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment. A jury must decide
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Ring V Arizona
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6th Amendment, death penalty cannot be decided by a judge without a jury
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Dred Scott
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Slaves cannot sue because they are not citizens
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Plessy v Fergeson
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13th and 14th amendments, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in private businesses (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
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Barron v. Baltimore
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5th amendment, state government does not have to give just compensation for the taking or devauling of citizens property.
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Gitlow v. New York
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1st amendment allowed by the 14th, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Gitlow convicted cannot avocate for a violent overthrow of the government.
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New York Times v. United States
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1st amendment, freedom of the press, prior restraint on classified papers, unconstitutional.
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Tinker v. Des Moines School District
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1st amendment, freedom of speech, silent speech covered by the 1st
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Texas v. Johnson
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1st amendment, free speech, ruled the american flag could be burned
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Brandenburg v. Ohio
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1st through the 14th, freedom of speech, you cannot incite lawless action
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Miller v. California
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1st amendment, free speech, obsenity not protected by the 1st, created the miller test
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Jacobellis v. Ohio
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1st amendment, Free Speech, nudity is not considered obscene
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Terry V. Ohio
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4th amendment, Police may stop a person if they have a reasonable suspicion that the person has committed or is about to commit a crime,
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US v. Leon
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4th Amendment, established the "good faith" exception to the exclusionary rule. RJ Loves Cock
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Roe v. Wade
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14th amendment, due process clause allows women to have an abortion.
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Weber v. Reproductive Health Services
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14th amendment, Abortion illegal
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, reversed "seperate but equal". RJ has a tiny penis
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California v. Bakke
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14th amendement.a quota system based on race is unconstitutional
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Bowers v. Hardwick
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A Georgia law classifying homosexual sex as illegal sodomy was valid because there was no constitutionally protected right to engage in homosexual sex.
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Romer v. Evans
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14th amendment, cannot ban anyone from being gay
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Lawrence v. Texas
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14th amemdment, Sodomy was not illegal
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Frontiero v. Richardson
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14th amendment,U.S. miltary cannot give employees benifits based on gender. US military would pay for a servicemans wife's house but not a service woman's husband.
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Craig v. Boren
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14ht amendment, cannot discimnate based on gender,Oklahoma passed a statute prohibiting the sale of "nonintoxicating" 3.2 % beer to males under the age of 21 but allowed females over the age of 18 to purchase it. The statute was challenged as Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection violation by Curtis Craig, a male who was over 18 but under 21, and by an Oklahoma vendor of alcohol. proved unconstitutional
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Printz v. United States
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law enforcement officers are subject to a background check
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U.S. v. Miller
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2nd Amendment, regualtion of unregistered guns being transported across state lines is legal.
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District of Columbia v. Heller
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2nd Amendment, a firearm can be possesed for law purposes, such as self defense in the home.
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McDonald v. Chicago
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2nd amendment, and incorparted the due process clause of the 14th, Right to bear arms for self defense is applied to the states
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New York Times v. Sullivan
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1st amendment freedom of the press, protected a newspaper from being sued for libel in state court for making false defamatory statements about the official conduct of a public official, because the statements were not made with knowing or reckless disregard for the truth.
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Hustler Magazine v. Jerry Falwell
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First Amendment, free-speech, prohibits awarding damages to public figures to compensate for emotional distress intentionally inflicted upon them.
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Snyder v. Phelps
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1st amendment,free speech you can protest at a funeral.
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