Court Cases
Political Science 130 with Jacobs at St. Norbert College
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Furman v. Georgia
Furman didn't believe that the death penalty should be solely decided by a jury, Supreme Court agreed and deemed it unconstitutional.
Gregg v. Georgia
bifurcated trial: step 1 determines guilt, step 2 is the penalty phase (if not guilty step 2 does not occur)
Griswold v. Connecticut
Griswold sued over the ban of contraception and believed it was against privacy rights, court agreed and granted the right to privacy
Roe v. Wade
challenged the Texas law stating that all abortions are illegal. Justice Harry Blackman divided pregnancy into three periods, in which gov can prohibit the abortion in third period unless mothers health is at risk.
Plessy v. Ferguson
-established the separate but equal doctrine
-Plessy challenged that the train cars for African Americans were not equal to whites
Dred Scott v. Sanford
-dealt with whether or not slaves were property
-gave the court the power to grant equal treatment of individuals
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
-changed the system from the trimester system, to a 2 step system, where an abortion was allowed until the fetus was viable
Barron v. Baltimore
established a precedent on whether or not the Bill of Rights could be applied to state governments
Chicago, Burlington, Quincy Railroad v. Chicago
upheld that the Due Process Clause required the states to offer just compensation when taking private property for public use
Gitlow v. New York
ruled that the 14th amendment had extended certain provisions of the first amendment to the governments of individual states, specifically speech and press freedoms
Lemon v. Kurtzman
ruled that the Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Education Act violated the establishment clause of the first amendment.
Engel v. Vitale
-invalidated the New York public schools' policy of having each class recite a specified nondenominational religious prayer each day
Lee v. Weisman
had to deal with a decision regarding school prayer
Employment Division, Oregon v. Smith
determined that the state could deny someone unemployment benefits if the employee was fired for violating a state prohibition on the use of peyote, even if it is apart of a religious ritual
Miranda v. Arizona
-provided the requirement that the Miranda Rights must be read to all defendants in custody before they are questioned by police
Mapp v. Ohio
-Supreme Court demanded that the states adhere to the exclusionary rule, by which all evidence obtained by police in violation of the Bill of Rights must be excluded from admission in court of law
Brown v. Board of Education
-Justice Earl Warren, in speaking for the entire court, held that racial segregation in any facet of public education constituted a denial of equal protection by the laws
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
-Alan Bakke was rejected for admission twice to Cal Med School
-Supreme Court ruled that schools could take into account race and ethnicity when making decisions as long as it did not utilize specifically assigned numerical goals
Gratz v. Bollinger
-court ruled that adding 20 points to underrepresented groups was not allowed because it greatly enhanced their chance of being admitted
About this deck
By: Alyssa Pyscher
Created: 2011-02-23
Size: 19 flashcards
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Created: 2011-02-23
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