Court cases

Question 1

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Answer 1

Prohibits state bans on Abortion
(attempts to decide when the compelling state interest to protect life begins and the right to privacy ends)

Question 2

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022)

Answer 2

Roe v. wade was overturn making it up to the state to decide when abortion legal and if it is legal at all

Question 3

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

Answer 3

Court states right to privacy implied

Question 4

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

Answer 4

State must provide attorney for indigent

Question 5

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Answer 5

prevents you from self incrimination and makes it so that legally you’re rights have to read to you

Question 6

McDonald v. Chicago (2010)/District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)

Answer 6

incorporates the 2nd Amendment to the states

Question 7

Caroline Products v. United States (Rational basis, Intermediate Scrutiny, Strict Scrutiny)

Answer 7

Regulatory legislation affecting ordinary commercial transactions is not unconstitutional unless the challenger can overcome the presumption that the law has a rational basis within the knowledge and experience of the legislature.

Question 8

Schenck v. United States (1919)

Answer 8

Freedom of speech can be limited during wartime. The government can restrict expressions that “would create clear and present danger that they will bring about substantive evils that congress has a right to prevent”

Question 9

Citizens United v. Federal Elections Committee (2010) / Buckley v. Valeo (1976)

Answer 9

Free speech clause of the 1st Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent “electioneering” expenditures for communications by nonprofit corporations, for profit corporations, labor unions, and other association

Question 10

New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)

Answer 10

News publications cannot be liable for libel to public officials unless the plaintiffs meets the exacting “actual malice” standard in the publication of the false statements … hard to prove

Question 11

Miller v. California (1973) (What’s the test?)

Answer 11

This case set forth rules for obscenity prosecutions, But it also gave states and localities flexibility in determining what is obscene.

Question 12

Gitlow v. New York (1925)

Answer 12

The Supreme Court applied protection of free speech to the states through the due process clause of the fourteenth
amendment

Question 13

Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) (What’s the test?)

Answer 13

The court considered whether a PA law reimbursing religious schools with state funds for textbooks and teacher salaries for non-public, non-secular schools violated the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment. they found that in this case the statute constituted an excessive government entanglement with religion