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12th Grade
09/23/2015

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Marbury v Madison
Definition

Judicial Review

Power of the Supreme Court to determine whether acts of Congress and those of the executive branch are in accord with the U.S. Constitution

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Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier
Definition
Principle can filter or limit information in the school's newspaper
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New Jersey v T.L.O
Definition
Schools are only required to have "resonable suspision"to search students
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Bethel School District v Fraser
Definition
Schools limit the profane ,obscene lewd speech of students
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Tinker v Des Moines
Definition

Student does not shed their rights at the door.

Ex.Black armbands to protest the Vietnam war can be worn since they are not disruptive

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In re Gault (1966)
Definition
Juveniles are provided due process as well as adults
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McCulloch v Maryland
Definition
State cannot tax a federal institution
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Gibbons v Odgen
Definition
Federal government has power over the state to regulate interstate commerce
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Dred Scott v Sandford
Definition

State cannot deprive a person of his rights to property.

Slaves are property

Ex post facto laws

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Plessy v Ferguson
Definition

Concept of "separate but equal"

in public facilities

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Brown v Board of Education
Definition

Separate is unequal

Schools were desegregated 

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Swann v CMS Board of Education
Definition

Court ordered busing to intergrate schools

Forced desegregation of schools

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Korematsu v United States
Definition
Times of national hardship and extreme times can allow some individual rights to be taken away
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Furman v Georgia
Definition
Capital punishment and enforcement of the death penalty cannot be racially biased
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Gregg v Georgia
Definition

Upheld sentences of death 

Death penalty itself does not violate the Constitution

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Gideon v Wainwright
Definition
All accused persons are entitled to a lawyer ,even if they cannot afford one
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Miranda v Arizona
Definition
Person must be read his or her rights before being arrested
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Mapp v Ohio
Definition
Illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in the court
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