II

Question 1

Board of Ed v Pico

Answer 1

censorship in school libraries are not allowed

Question 2

Edwards v South Carolina

Answer 2

peaceful protest demonstrations are allowed on public property even if the views are unpopular

Question 3

Hazelwood School District v Kuhlmeier

Answer 3

School newspapers are an educational activity and can be censored by the school

Question 4

West Virginia State Board of Ed v Barnette

Answer 4

requiring students and teachers to recite the pledge is unconstitutional

Question 5

Everson v Board of Ed

Answer 5

parents or parochial or private school students can be reimbursed for bussing fees because this did not fund church but rather the good of the children

Question 6

Abbington School District v Schempp

Answer 6

hey Pennsylvania law requiring that each public school day open with Bible reading was struck down

Question 7

Wisconsin v Yoder

Answer 7

The court ruled that Amish adolescence could be exempt from a state law could compelling school attendance for all 14 to 16-year-olds since the religion required living apart from the world

Question 8

Wallace v Jaffree

Answer 8

One minute of silence for prayer unconstitutional

Question 9

Westside Community Schools v Mergens

Answer 9

Equal Access Act of 1984. public schools must provide religious group with the same access to facilities that other extracurricular groups had

Question 10

Employment Division, Dept. of Human Resources of Oregon v Smith

Answer 10

restricted drug use in religious ceremonies. illegal activity is not protected in free exercise

Question 11

Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v City of Hialeah

Answer 11

laws banning animal sacrifices were unconstitutional because they targeted the Santeria religion

Question 12

George Reynolds v US

Answer 12

Polygamy. Court ruled illegal acts cannot be defended by “religious duty”

Question 13

US v Miller

Answer 13

Gun dealer wanted to ship guns across state lines. Miller lost bc the state government has the right to regulate interstate commerce

Question 14

District of Columbia v Heller

Answer 14

District of Columbia had a gun law that banned all handguns. supreme Court said this violated the second amendment

Question 15

Weeks v US

Answer 15

Exclusionary Rule

Question 16

Mapp v Ohio

Answer 16

Exclusionary Rule

Question 17

Katz v US

Answer 17

public telephone booths are protected by the fourth amendment. “Persons not property were protected.”

Question 18

US v Leon

Answer 18

evidence obtained in good faith that is subsequentially found to be deficient may be used in criminal trials.

Question 19

Nix v Williams

Answer 19

Inevitable Discovery Rule. allowing evidence discovered as the result of an illegal search to be introduced if it can be shown that the evidence would have been found anyway.

Question 20

New Jersey v TLO

Answer 20

Girl found with drugs at school. Schools only require a reasonable suspicion to search one’s belongings

Question 21

California v Greenwood

Answer 21

garbage placed at the curbside is not protected by the fourth amendment

Question 22

Goss v Lopez

Answer 22

students had rights to notification of charges, explanation of evidence against them, and the opportunity to present their side of the story

Question 23

Hamdi v Rumsfeld

Answer 23

protects the rights of citizens held by the government as “enemy combatants” to challenge their detention before a neutral decision maker

Question 24

Rasul v Bush

Answer 24

foreign nationals held at Guantánamo have a right to access US courts

Question 25

Boumediene v Bush

Answer 25

detainees at Guantánamo Bay may not be barred from habeas corpus

Question 26

Furman v Georgia

Answer 26

sentence of death itself was not unconstitutional, but the procedure and applications as practiced by the states were. A black man that killed a white man was three times more likely to get the death penalty that I white man that killed a black man

Question 27

Gregg v Georgia

Answer 27

The death penalty is not cruel and unusual

Question 28

Roper v Summons

Answer 28

The death penalty for minors is considered cruel and unusual punishment

Question 29

Payne v Tennessee

Answer 29

victim impact can be considered in sentencing procedures. how was the victim impacted in the incident?

Question 30

Webster v Reproductive Health Services

Answer 30

upholds Missouri law prohibiting abortion in public hospitals. more leeway first states in regulating abortion

Question 31

Planned Parenthood S.E Pennsylvania v Casey

Answer 31

Equal protection and the right to privacy. miners need it to have parental consent when obtaining an abortion but wives did not need the consent of the husband

Question 32

Korematsu v US

Answer 32

American citizens of Japanese dissent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order

Question 33

Regents of the University of California v Bakke

Answer 33

affirmative action is constitutional but racial quotas systems are not.

Question 34

Grutter v Bollinger

Answer 34

race may be a factor in determining admission, but not the only factor

Question 35

Reynolds v Sims

Answer 35

“One man, one vote” all districts must be equal in population not area or size

Question 36

Shaw v Reno

Answer 36

no racial gerrymandering; race cannot be the sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative boundaries

Question 37

Ex parte Milligan

Answer 37

civilians cannot be tried in military courts while civil courts are available

Question 38

US v Nixon

Answer 38

ruled executive privilege (where president could withhold information) unconstitutional except in case of secret foreign and military affairs

Question 39

US v Morrison

Answer 39

Commerce club power does not support congressional law “violence against women act” which federalized the crime of battery against women.