Court Case Quiz Flashcards
Barron b Baltimore
Wanted 5th amendment just compensation when city project ruins business
Ruled BOR can’t be applied to states
What reverses Barron v Baltimore
14 amendment incorporation clause
14 amendment clauses
Citizenship clause
Due process
Equal protection
Incorporation clause- BOR
Selective incorporation
Case by case basis indentifies the essential freedoms that can’t be violated
First selective incorporation case
Gitlow v NY
Gitlow v NY
Selectively incorporated the first amendment freedom of speech
Near v Minnesota
First amendment press and assembly, newspaper was shut down
Mapp v Ohio
Exclusionary rule
Evidence obtained by illegal search and seizure cane be used in court
4th amendment
Gideon v wainwright
6 amendment
Right to legal council
Tinker b v Des Moines
Students and teachers that cross through school house gates do not lose rights
Substantial interruption of education environment for suspension
Texas v Johnson
Flag burning considered against law
SC ruled it as symbolic speech and not illegal
Speech NOT allowed
Clear and present danger Invite others to violence Reckless endangerment of others Libel Slander
Warren court
Most liberal in SC history
Dramatically increased the rights of criminal defendants
Warren court cases that increased rights of criminal defendants
Mapp v Ohio
Gideon v wainwright
Miranda v Arizona
Engel v Vitale
Struck down state sponsored prayer in school
Violates establishment clause 1 amendment
Griswold v Connecticut
SC rules right to marital privacy for contraceptives is implies by bill of rights
What gives precedent for roe v wade
Griswold v Connecticut
Weeks v us
Precedent from exclusionary rule
Federal law
Precedent for mapp v Ohio
Miranda v Arizona
Establishes Miranda
Rights
Protects 5th amendment
Civil liberties
Protect from arbitrary acts of gov
Life liberty property can’t be taken without due process
Civil rights
Protect from actions of individuals, companies, discrimination
Thomas Jefferson says
All men created equal
Political equality
Legal equality
Equality of economic opportunity
Heart of Atlanta motel v us
Interstate commerce clause
Upholds civil rights act of 1964
Leon c kurtzman
Must go to secular purpose/ non religious
Can’t promote/ inhibit religion
Can’t promote excessive entanglement
Reynolds v us
Polygamy decision
It’s amendment free exercise clause, religion doesn’t give right to do things otherwise illegal
Unemployment division of dregon v Smith
Smith Native American works in drug rehab, claims deserves unemployment benefits cuz religion was why he took drugs and got fired
New York Times v Sullivan
Actual maklice
SCOTUSsays the press is doing job and not actual malice
Roth v us
Obscenity is not constitutionally protected free speech
Leaves up to community to decide
Schneck v us
First amendment protects against freedom of expression not dangerous speech
First amend
Freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion, petition
Second amend
Right to bear arms
Third amend
Quartering act, housing soldiers
Fourth amend
Illegal gov search and seizures
Fifth amend
Self incrimination
Emminent domain
Takings clause
Double jeopardy
Sixth amend
Legal counsel
Seventh amend
Right to jury trial
Eighth amend
Cruel and unusual punishment
Ninth amend
Citizens reserve all rights not enumerated to fed
Tenth amend
Reserved powers clause for states
Marburg v Madison
Judicial review
Plaintiffs and presidents
McCulloch v Maryland
Can’t tax legitimate activities of fed gov, bank
