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| State laws against abortion were unconstitutional |
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| Griswold v. connecticut 1965 |
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| found a "right to privacy" in the constitution that would ban any state law against selling contraceptives |
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| Federal law may ban certain forms of partial birth abortion |
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| lawrence vs. texas (2003) |
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| state law may no ban sexual relation between same sex partners. |
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| Webster v Reproductive Health Services |
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| allowed states to ban abortions from public hospitals and premitted doctors to see if fetus's were viable |
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| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke |
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| In a confused set of rival opinions,the decisive vote was cast by Justice Powell, who said that a quota-like ban on Bakke's admission was unconstitutional but that diversity was a legitimate goal that could be pursued by taking race into account. |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) |
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| Upheld separate-but-equal facilities for white and black people on railroad cars. |
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| Dred Scott Case (Scott v. Sanford, 1847) |
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| Congress had no authority to ban slavery in territory. A slave was considered property. |
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| United Steelworkers v. Weber (1979) |
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| Despite the ban on racial classifications in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, this case upheld the use of race in an employment agreement between the steel workers union and steel plant. |
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| Richmond v. Croson (1989) |
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| Affirmative action plans must be judged by the strict scrutiny standard that requires any race-conscious plan to be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling interest. |
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| gender discrimination can only be justifies if it serves important governmental objectives and be substantially related to those objectives. |
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| Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003) |
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| Numerical benefits cannot be used to admit minorities into college, but race can be a "plus factor" in making those decisions. |
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| Brown v. Board of Education (1954) |
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| Said that separate public schools are inherently unequal, thus starting racial desegregation. |
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| congress can draft men without drafting women |
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| United States V. Virginia |
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| States may not finance an all male military school |
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| Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (1968) |
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| Banned a freedom-of-choice plan for intergrating schools, suggesting that blacks and white must actually attend racially mixed schools. |
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| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971) |
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| Approved busing and redrawing district lines as ways of integrating public schools. |
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| Gender discrimination violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution |
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| Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) |
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| Reaffirmed Roe v. Wade but upheld certain limits on its use. |
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| Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) |
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| A private organization may ban gays from its membership. |
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