Court Cases 4 – Flashcards
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NAACP v. Button
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The reservation of jurisdiction by a federal district court did not bar the U.S. Supreme Court from reviewing a state court's ruling, and that the state of Virginia's laws on barratry, champerty, and maintenance violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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Oregon v. Mitchell
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Upheld Congressional ban on literacy tests in voting.
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Bowers v. Hardwick
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In this case, a gay man from Georgia charged with committing sodomy in his own home with a consenting adult. The court ruled that the Constitution does not explicitly grant the right for homosexuals to practice their lifestyle and that laws against sodomy were Constitutional.
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PA State Police v. Suders
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Suders quit her job as a dispatcher for the Pennsylvania State Police due to sexuall harrasment. She sued, though did not file the proper paperwork within the state police. The Court said she could still sue.
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Pointer v. Texas
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Upheld the 6th amendment's right to confront witnesses against that person
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Pollack v. Farmers Loan and Trust Co
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Ruled that income taxes on interest, dividends, and rents were unconstitutional. Nullified with 16th amendment in 1913.
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Romer v. Evans
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1996; A Colorado amendment banning gay and lesbian marraige is ruled unconsititutional by the supreme court because it violates the EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE
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Rostker v Goldberg
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Congress can draft men without drafting women
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Saenz v. Roe
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Under the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the United States Constitution, a State must provide the same benefits to new residents as it does to other residents.
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Shaw v. Hunt
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The ruling that the government cant gerrymander on racial basis even for minority protection.
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Webster Reproductive Health Services
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States allowed to impose restrictions on abortion
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Wolf v. Colorado
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The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause does not prohibit the admission of evidence obtained during an apparently illegal search and seizure in State courts.
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Woodson v. NC
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Mandatory death sentence is unconsitutional in all cases.
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In re Oliver
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Incorporated the defendant's right to a public trial stating that the right to a public trial " has always been recognized as a safe guard against any attempts to employ courts as instruments of persecution".
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Clinton v. City of New York
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Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the line-item veto as granted in the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 was unconstitutional because it impermissibly gave the President the power to unilaterally amend or repeal parts of bills that had been appropriately passed by the United States Congress.
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Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education
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School districts can be held liable for sexual harassment in cases of student-on-student harassment where school has knowledge of harassment/deliberately indifferent to it
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DeJonge v. Oregon
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Federal protection of the right of PEACFUL ASSEMBLY for lawful discussion was EXTENDED to the STATES.
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Dennis v. United States
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1951, made it illegal to advocate or teach the overthrow of the government by force or belong to an organization with this objective. (upheld the Smith Act of 1940)
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Dothard v. Rawlinson
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Supreme Court case that voided arbitrary height and weight requirements for employees.
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Klopfer v. NC
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Made right to speedy trial applicable to State Courts
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Lawrence v. Texas
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Overturned Bowers v. Hardwick and declared a state law banning sodomy to be an unconstitutional intrusion on the right to privacy.
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Grove City College v. Bell
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Supreme Court ruled that schools who enroll students and take tuition through federal aid, must comply with the nondiscrimination provisions.. however, athletic dept rarely receive money so they do not have to comply
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Miller v. Johnson
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No racial gerrymandering
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Wal-Mart v. Dukes
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Betty Dukes, a Wal-Mart greeter, and 5 other women filed suit against Wal-Mart for alleged that they got lower management positions/pay than men 9 votes Wal-Mart, this small group of women could not represent all Wal-Mart female employees
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Kelo v. City of New London
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Eminent domain case: Local gov'ts may force the sale of private property and make way for private economic development when officials decide it would benefit the public
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Wesberry v. Sanders
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The 1964 case in which the Supreme Court invalidated unequal congressional districts, saying that all legislative districts must contain about equal numbers of people. The ruling is popularly known as the principle of one person, one vote.
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Shelley v. Kramer
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The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from enforcing restrictive covenants that would prohibit a person from owning or occupying property based on race or color.
