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| disallowed arbitrary death penalty |
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| reallowed death penalty after Georgia rewrites its sentencing guidelines to make them uniform |
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| no blanket discrimination |
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| limits death row appeals to three |
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| cannot execute mentally disabled |
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| juveniles cannot get the death penalty |
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| lethal injection is not cruel and unusual |
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| no capital punishment for child rapists |
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| no life imprisonment for minors |
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| laws prohibiting birth control, which was thought to lead to public promiscuity |
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| birth control legal, struck down Comstock laws |
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| women have a right to an abortion, trimester plan |
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| Webster v. Reproductive Health Services |
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| upheld fetal viability tests; if the fetus could live outside the body, women couldn’t abort |
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| Planned Parenthood v. Casey |
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| 24-hour waiting periods upheld as constitutional |
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| Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act 2003 |
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| disallows partial birth abortion, upheld in Gonzalez v. Carhart, 2007 |
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| anti-sodomy laws constitutional |
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| anti-sodomy laws stricken |
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| upheld Oregon’s assisted suicide law |
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| Africans aboard on the Amistad were free individuals; kidnapped and transported illegally, they had never been slaves |
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| Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
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| Maine to enter as a free state, Missouri to enter as a slave state |
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| if a slave goes into free territory, that person is still a slave, Dred Scott isn’t a citizen (he didn’t have standing), Missouri Compromise unconstitutional |
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| “separate but equal” doctrine said that as long as there are separate but equal facilities for blacks, segregation is okay |
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| Brown v. School Board of Topeka, KS |
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| “separate is inherently unequal” based on Hunnar Myrdahl’s “An American Dilemma” and the Doll Studies |
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| race can be used if it is the least restrictive means to a necessary goal |
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| Reed v. Reed and Craig v. Boren |
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| establish the intermediate standard (Gender can be used when there is an important goal, and the law or policy is substantially related to this goal.) |
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| Bakke v. Regents of University of California |
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| no quotas (you can’t reserve a certain number of seats for a race or gender) |
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| race can be one criterion (it can be one thing considered for admission, not the only thing) |
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| Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, Crystal Meredith v. Jefferson County School Board |
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| assigning school by race violates equal protection clause |
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| no line-item veto (striking out a portion of a bill) |
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| making unfair districts for political purposes |
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| districts have to be contiguous and uniform |
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