Intro to law exam #4

marbury v madison

Judicial branch gave itself power to review acts of congress

minersville school district v gobitis

national unity is basis of national security, flag salute mandate doesn’t violate 1st amendment

West virginia board of educaiton v barnette

overturned precedent of minersville

Wickard v filburn

congress can regulate local activities that involve interstate commerce

Korematsu v us

Interment, court bowed to political pressures to retain legitimacy

watkins v us

Watkins within right to not testify about colleagues in front of committee of un-american acts

barrenblatt v us

had to testify on grounds of national security

NYT v Sullivan

Fake news had to have actual malice to be considered libel

Griswold v connecticut

bill of rights creates penumbras about right to privacy, marrieds can use contraceptives

Miranda v arizona

Guaranteed miranda rights before questioning

Loving v virginia

VA racial integrity act violated 14th amendment

Tinker v des moines

symbolic speech is protected

Eisenstadt v baird

Single people can use contraceptives due to rational basis test (griswold v connecticut)

Roe v wade

Constitutional right to abortion

US v Richardson

Individual taxpayer has no standing to see CIA spending, used to air grievances

Bethel school district v fraser

Schools can punish lewd/indecent speech

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA V. CASEY, 1992

Cannot add more hoops to right to abortion (consent/notice)

Arizonans for official english v arizona

No moot

Bush v gore

Counties must use same method to count votes, no time for recount (corrupt/bias)

Kyllo v us

Heat sensor to search house violates 4th amendment

Morse v Frederick

Bong hits for jesus, SCOTUS sided with school

Sobel v derry

Not ripe, hadn’t reached final zoning decision

Citizens united v federal election committee

political spending limit infringed on 1st amendment

WA and MN v Trump

President has power to change how non-citizens enter US

actual malice

purposeful harm, lied on purpose

Federalism

National and local government

Ripeness

Is the case ready for litigation

Mootness

relevancy

Standing

skin in the game

Substance

What law says about our rights, court fixes root issue

Procedures

How rights are enforced or protected, court adresses niche but not root cause

Rational basis test

Does the government have a legitimate and rational interest in passing a law?

Private concerns are

basis for public legal treatment (roe v wade)