Supreme Court cases most likely to screw you over in the AP test
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| Bakke v. Regents of the University of California | show 🗑
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| Barron v. Baltimore | show 🗑
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| show | (1972) Ruled against a special First Amendment privilege that would allow the press to refuse to answer grand jury questions concerning news sources.
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| show | (1954) Unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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| Craig v. Boren | show 🗑
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| show | (1857) The court ruled that slaves are property, not people. (Before 14th amendment)
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| Engel v. Vitale | show 🗑
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| Gibbons v. Ogden | show 🗑
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| show | (1963) Ruled that a defendant in a felony trial must be provided a lawyer free of charge if the defendant cannot afford one.
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| show | (1925) Anarchist calling for overthrow of the government. Established precedent of federalizing Bill of Rights (applying them to States); States cannot deny freedom of speech – protected through due process clause of Amendment 14
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| show | (1976) Death penalty is not "cruel and unusual punishment" in cases of murder.
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| Griswold v. Connecticut | show 🗑
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| show | (1971) Government-supported programs in religious schools must have a primary secular purpose, neither aid nor inhibit religion, & not excessively entangle government, religion.
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| show | (1984) The nativity scene was allowed to remain in view; Allowed holiday decorations on town property
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| Mapp v. Ohio | show 🗑
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| show | (1803) Established the principle of judicial review
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| McClesky v. Kemp | show 🗑
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| show | (1819) The Court ruled that states cannot tax the federal government, i.e. the Bank of the United States; the phrase "the power to tax is the power to destroy"; confirmed the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States.
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| Miller v. California | show 🗑
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| show | (1966) Ruled that detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination
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| NAACP v. Alabama | show 🗑
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| show | (1931) Supreme Court decision holding that the first amendment protects newspapers from prior restraint.
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| show | (1971) Libel case-writer did it with intent to defame-knew it was false-wrote it with malicious intent. Public officials/figures have less privacy rights.
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| show | (1992) Upheld the constitutional right to have an abortion but lowered the standard for analyzing restrictions of that right, invalidating one regulation but upholding the others.
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| Plessy v. Ferguson | show 🗑
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| show | (1973) In a unanimous decision, the Court held that the law's dissimilar treatment of men and women was unconstitutional.
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| show | (1973) Ruling that decriminalized abortion.
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| Roth v. US | show 🗑
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| show | (1963) Decision holding that a Pennsylvania law requiring Bible reading in schools violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
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| show | (1989) Flag-burning is symbolic speech with a political purpose and is protected by 1st Amendment.
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| show | (1976) Ruled that a North Carolina law establishing a mandatory death sentence for all convicted first-degree murderers constituted a violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
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| show | (2002) Tested the allowance of school vouchers in relation to the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
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