Supreme Court Cases

2. Fourteenth Amendment creates a right for criminal defendants who cannot pay for their own lawyers to have the state appoint attorneys on their behalf.
3. the wartime internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional.
5. "Students don't shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gates."
9. physical punishment to students does not qualify as "cruel and unusual punishment".
10. upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
12. Fourth Amendment prohibits a police officer from further searching a vehicle that was stopped for a minor traffic offense.
17. stopped state government officials from forcing a crowd to disperse when they legally marched in front of a state house.
18. former slaves did not have standing in federal courts because they lacked U.S. citizenship, even after they were freed.
19. separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.
20. suspicionless drug testing of students participating in competitive extracurricular activities did not violate the Fourth Amendment.

1. juvenile criminal defendants are entitled to Due Process protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
4. illegal to burn a cross in public with the intent to intimidate others.
6. prohibits the display of a symbol that "arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender."
7. burning the American flag was protected speech under the First Amendment as doing so counts as symbolic and political speech.
8. removal of books from libraries in public schools.
11. detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination.
13. standards by which a public school official can search a student in a school.
14. public schools have the right to prohibit the use of vulgar and offensive language.
15. Decline to overrule Miranda laws.
16. First Amendment protected the free association rights of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.