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| Polygamy is not protected by the free exercise clause |
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| Public busing of students of non-pubic schools is constitutional |
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| Upheld conviction under bad tendency test but said that states must honor freedom of speech |
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| Sexual discrimination in large, non-intimate, broadly focused groups was unconstitutional |
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| Government had no right to prevent the publication of legally obtained documents |
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| Obscenity is not protected under the first amendment, created a new test to define obscenity |
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| The state must provide sufficient representation in capital cases |
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| Court rejected an attempt to strike down the death penalty because of continuing racial disproportionalities |
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| Slaves are not fully citizens and therefore do not have standing to sue |
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| Swann v. Charlotte-Meckenburg Board of Education |
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| Approved a wide array of desegragation tools: mandatory busing, teacher transfers, court supervision of spending and new construction and the altering of attendance zones |
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| Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County |
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| Court upheld that statutory rape law applied only to men |
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| Court ruled that disallowing females admittance to VMI was unconstitutional |
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| University of California Board of Regents v. Bakke |
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| Affirmative action programs for college admittance are alright - quota systems are not |
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| Court reversed its previous position that reapportionment is a political only question |
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| Speech can be suppressed if it presents a clear and present danger |
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| Speech can be suppressed if is has the tendancy to cause overthrow of government |
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| U.S. v. Carolene Products |
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| Preferred freedoms doctrine: Changed the burden of proof in Bill of Rights Cases, court must defend rights essential to political process, and claimed the court had the responsibility to protect unpopular groups |
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| Prior restraint (censorship) is unconstitutional |
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| Birth control is protected under guarantees of privacy |
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| Abortion is protected under guarantees of privacy |
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| Upheld GA anti-sodomy law |
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| Constitution does not permit criminalization of homosexual acts |
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| Cruzan v. Direction MO Dept. of Health |
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| Right to die, pull the feeding tubes from person in vegatated state |
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| Assisted suicide is not protected |
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| Exclusionary rule applied to states |
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| Good faith exception to the exclusionary rule |
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| Right to an attorney for questioning |
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| Right to counsel in criminal cases |
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| Upheld the constitutionality of 3 strikes laws |
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| Prohibited the arbitrary use of the death penalty |
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| GA death penalty structure was upheld |
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| Court used reasonableness standard to interpret the equal protection clause, ruled that states could require racial segregation if facilities for blacks and whites were of equal quality |
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| Desegragation of all public schools must occur "with all deliberate speed" |
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| Overturned an Idaho statute that preferred males in inheritance cases |
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| Intermediate or heightened scrutiny test for sex discrimination, requires that laws that classify on the basis of sex be substantially related to an important governmental objective |
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| Court held that educational diversity constitutes a compelling state interest and that affirmative action programs, if properly tailored, are constitutionally acceptable |
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| Congress had the power to set minimum age in federal elections |
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| Outlawed "understanding tests" for voting |
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| Confirmed the Amendment that outlawed poll tax |
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| Court ruled that Voting Rights Act is approved and the government was free to enforce it vigorously |
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| Redrawing of Tuskeegee city limits to get rid of blacks in city election was unconstitutional |
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| Court ruled that arbitrary drawing of district lines to create minority-majority districts was unconstitutional |
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| Court ruled that arbitrary drawing of district lines to create minority-majority districts was unconstitutional |
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