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| The ruling made it possible for the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers to publish the then-classified Pentagon Papers without risk of government censorship or punishment. |
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| 1919; speech may be punished if it creates clear and present danger test to illegal acts |
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| The Court held that government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is directed to inciting, and is likely to incite, imminent lawless action |
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| Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier |
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| Held that public school curricular student newspapers that have not been established as forums for student expression are subject to a lower level of First Amendment protection than independent student expression or newspapers established (by policy or practice) as forums for student expression. |
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| protects search and seizures; all states must comply |
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| which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship; ruling that the exclusion order was constitutional |
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| determined that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools. |
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| ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution had extended the reach of certain limitations on federal government authority set forth in the First Amendment—specifically the provisions protecting freedom of speech and freedom of the press—to the governments of the individual states; defined the scope of the First Amendment's protection of free speech and established the standard to which a state or the federal government would be held when it criminalized speech or writing |
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| 1989; there may not be a law to banish flag-burning |
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| ruled that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes |
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| you may not be forced to speak to police; suspect must be read their rights and heed not talk |
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| holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment. |
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| Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools |
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| Court held that busing was an appropriate remedy for the problem of racial imbalance in schools, even when the imbalance resulted from the selection of students based on geographic proximity to the school rather than from deliberate assignment based on race. This was done to ensure the schools would be "properly" integrated and that all students would receive equal educational opportunities regardless of their race. |
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| Casey Decision (NOT CASEY ANTHONY) |
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| decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the constitutionality of several Pennsylvania state regulations regarding abortion were challenged. The Court's plurality opinion upheld the constitutional right to have an abortion and altered the standards for analyzing restrictions of that right, invalidating one regulation but upholding the other four. |
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| race may be a factor but not a quota |
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| must provide a lawyer to poor |
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| prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort and responsibility under similar working conditions |
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| Higher Education Act of 1972 (Title IX) |
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| said that No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance etc |
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| Education of Handicapped Children of 1975 |
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| required all public schools accepting federal funds to provide equal access to education and one free meal a day for children with physical and mental disabilities. Public schools were required to evaluate handicapped children and create an educational plan with parent input that would emulate as closely as possible the educational experience of non-disabled students. |
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| In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the students had the right to wear armbands to school to protest the Vietnam Wa |
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