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NSL- Civil Rights Terms List Court Cases
All the court cases.
22
History
9th Grade
03/28/2011

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Bakke v. U.C. Davis

Definition
White man wants to go to med school. Med School has racial quotas, and he is not accepted. Wins case because racial quotas violate Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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Grutter v. Bollinger

Definition

White lady applies to law school but is denied. law school wins because there is no quota, just a general advantage that is only one of many factors. Each applicant decided on an individual basis.

 

Overturned Bakke v. U.C. Davis

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Gratz v. Bollinger

Definition
Law school has point system that includes an advantage to minorites. Gratz wins based on the fact the point system is not individualized, so it is unfair.
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Barron v. Baltimore

Definition

Barron looses his shipping area due to lots o sand. Sues city under right for compensation for taking property.

 

Loses as the Bill of Rights does not apply to states yet.

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Plessy v. Ferguson

Definition
Seperate but equal.
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Dred Scott v. Sanford

Definition
African Americans were slaves. Scott must be returned to Sanford. Probably the worst decision ever by the Supreme Court.
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Brandenburg v. Ohio

Definition

Speech can be prohibited if it is "directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action" and (2) it is "likely to incite or produce such action."

 

Brandenburg won as his speech did not create a situation where he was inciting lawless action.

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Schenck v. United States

Definition

Schenk created letters saying to resist the draft. Only declared peaceful means, but still prosecuting under Espionage Act.

 

Schenk lost because during wartime freedoms may be given up or limited and his letter created clear and present danger.

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Gitlow v. New York

Definition

SELECTIVE INCORPORATION

 

No clear and present danger.

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Tinker v. Des Moines

Definition
Tinker had an armband condemning Vietnam War. Tinker was in the right as it was freedom of expression and did not interfere with the school's discipline.
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Employment Division v. Smith

Definition
Drugs are illegal even if specified for religious purposes.
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New York Times v. Sullivan

Definition
False speech is protected unless it has actual malice.
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Engel v. Vitale

Definition
No prayer in school b/c of establishment clause.
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Gideon v. Wainwright
Definition
Counsel must be provided.
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Griswold v. Connecticut

Definition
Right to privacy.
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Lemon v. Kurtzman

Definition

Religion in schools.

 

Lemon test: "a secular legislative purpose," it must have principal effects which neither advance nor inhibit religion, and it must not foster "an excessive government entanglement with religion.

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New Jersey v. T.L.O.

Definition
Probable cause is not needed in schools.
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Miller v. California

Definition
Obscenity is illegal. SLAPS test: (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."
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Wesbury v. Sanders

Definition
Gerrymandering is illegal.
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NY Times v. U.S.
Definition
Pentagon Papers Case. Prior restraint is bad.
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Shaw v. Reno

Definition
Racial gerrymandering is illegal.
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U.S. v. Lopez
Definition
Limited Commerce Clause as the way it was applied was unreasonable.
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