First Amendment

Question 0

Mitchell v. Helms

Answer 0

2000
Establishment clause
Government Giving Internet and computers to private schools is constitutional

Question 1

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Answer 1

1971
Establishment clause
No subsidization of religious schools without clearly secular purpose.

Question 2

Aguilar v. Felton

Answer 2

1985
Establishment clause
Special education aid to religious schools was unconstitutional.
Later over turned

Question 3

Agostini v. Felton

Answer 3

1997
Establishment clause
Overturns Aguolar v. Felton (1985)
Aid for special education is constitutional.

Question 4

Gitlow v. New York

Answer 4

1925
14th amendment. Bill of rights Applies to the states.
Incorporation theory

Question 5

Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

Answer 5

2002
Establishment Clause
voucher program is constitutional because it allows choice between public or private school.

Question 6

Engel v. Vitale

Answer 6

1962
Establishment clause
School Prayers are unconstitutional
Unnecessary entanglement

Question 7

Abington School District v. Schempp

Answer 7

1963
Establishment clause
Outlaws bible readings over the PA system in public school

Question 8

Wallace v. Jaffree

Answer 8

1985
Establishment clause
Moments of silence expressly for prayer are not allowed.
Other purposes are allowed.

Question 9

Lee v. Weismann

Answer 9

1992
Establishment clause
No prayer by a church official at graduation or commencement ceremonies

Question 10

Stone v. Graham

Answer 10

1980
Establishment Clause
Ten Commandments cannot be posted with religious intent.

Question 11

Epperson v. Arkansas

Answer 11

1968
Establishment clause
Teaching evolution may not be prohibited in anyway

Question 12

Edwards v. Aguillard

Answer 12

1987
Establishment clause
Biblical creation may not be taught alongside evolution as scientific.

Question 13

Oregon v. Smith

Answer 13

1990
Free exercise clause
Oregon could deny unemployment benefits to people fired for religious drug use.

Question 14

City of Boerne v. Flores

Answer 14

1997
Free exercise clause
Repealed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act because it intruded on states’ reserved police powers.

Question 15

Nebraska Press Association v. Stewart

Answer 15

1976

Prior restraint requires a lot of justification.

Question 16

New York Times v. USA

Answer 16

1971

Pentagon Papers case.
Newspapers can publish whatever they want. But they may face prosecution afterwards.

Question 17

Tinker v. Des Moines

Answer 17

1969

Symbolic Speech is protected by the Constituition and first amendment

Question 18

Texas v. Johnson

Answer 18

1989

Burning the American flag is protected as Symbolic Speech
*in peaceful protest

Question 19

Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston

Answer 19

1995

Hurley could exclude the LGBT community from the St. Patrick’s Day parade as part of their freedom of speech

Question 20

Virginia v. Black

Answer 20

2003

Burning a cross is prohibited because it is an act of terrorism by the KKK

Question 21

Virginia Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Group Counil

Answer 21

1976
Advertisements are speech
Commercial speech

Question 22

Schneck v. United States

Answer 22

1919
Communist guy got cockblocked
Clear and present danger test

Question 23

Brandenburg v. Ohio

Answer 23

1969

KKK leader’s conviction overturned because his actions did not invite immediate violence.

Question 24

Miller v. California

Answer 24

1973

Obscenity is not constitutional

Question 25

Osborne v. Ohio

Answer 25

1990

Child porn is obscene and illegal

Question 26

University of Wisconsin v. Southworth

Answer 26

2003
Reversed the unconstitutional ruling against the Children’s Internet Protection Act. Public school and libraries must have adult content filters

Question 27

Doe v. University of Michigan

Answer 27

1989

Students may engage in hate speech if they want to.

Question 28

New York Times v. Sullivan

Answer 28

1964

A publication is only libelous if the victim can prove actual malice.

Question 29

Gannet Co. v. De Pasquale

Answer 29

1979

Judges may impose a gag order if there is a threat to the accused’s right to a fair trial. Pretrials only.

Question 30

Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia

Answer 30

1980

Actual trials must be open to the public except under unusual circumstances

Question 31

Smith v. Collin

Answer 31

1978
Nazis can march through the Jewish Neighborhoods
Unconstitutional to prevent them from peacefully assembling.

Question 32

City of Chicago v. Morales

Answer 32

1999
Unconstitutional to prevent gang members from loitering because the specific law left too much up to the police to decide what loitering was

Question 33

Reynolds v. USA

Answer 33

1878
Establishment ?
Supremacy clause.

Religious duty is not legal grounds for polygamy.
Constitutional is above religious doctrine