Second Court Case Test

New York Times

________ v. Sullivan (1964): A newspaper can not be sued for making false defamatory statements about a public official because those statements were not made with knowing or reckless disregard for the truth.

Citizens

________ have a constitutional right to privacy.

Griswold v Connecticut

________ (1965): A law criminalizing contraceptives violates the right to marital privacy.

Miranda v Arizona

________ (1966): The Fifth Amendment privilege against self- incrimination requires law enforcement officials to advise a suspect interrogated in custody of his rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney.

Boy Scouts of America v Dale (2000)

A private organization is allowed, under certain criteria, to exclude a person from membership through their First Amendment right to freedom of association in spite of state antidiscrimination laws

Everson v Board of Education (1947)

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is incorporated against the states

Texas v Johnson (1989)

A statute that criminalizes the desecration of the American flag violates the First Amendment

Mapp v Ohio (1961)

The Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures, as applied to the states through the Fourteenth, excludes unconstitutionally obtained evidence from use in criminal prosecutions

Gitlow v New York (1925)

The freedom of speech guarantee of the First Amendment applies to the states as well as the federal government through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

Dred Scott v Sandford (1857)

Slaves are not citizens of the United States, the Missouri Compromise is illegal, and the federal government is prohibited from freeing slaves brought into federal territories

Weeks v United States (1914)

The warrantless seizure of documents from a private home violated the FourthAmendment prohibition against unreasonable search and seizures, and evidence obtained in this manner is excluded from use in federal criminal prosecutions

Regents of the University of California v Bakke (1978)

Numbered racial quotas for college admission are illegal

Miranda v Arizona (1966)

The Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination requires law enforcement officials to advise a suspect interrogated in custody of his rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney

Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

This case supported the concept of "separate but equal"

Griswold v Connecticut (1965)

A law criminalizing contraceptives violates the right to marital privacy

New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)

A newspaper cannot be sued for making false defamatory statements about a public official because those statements were not made with knowing or reckless disregard for the truth

Lawrence v Texas (2003)

This case ruled that state law may not ban sexual relations between same-sex partners

Printz v United States (1997)

This case ruled that the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Acts interim provision that the "chief law enforcement officer" (CLEO) of each local jurisdiction to conduct background checks is unconstitutional

Alden v. Maine (1999)

This case states that states are immune from cases brought against them in federal court