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Gitlow VS New York
The statue penalized utterances w/o propensity to insightment of concrete action. -
Gitlow VS New York (Free Speech)
Freedom of press and speech are "fundamental personal rights and liberties protected by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment from impairment by the states" and federal government -
DeJonge VS Oregon
Arrested and charged w/ violating the state's criminals sinicalism statue. -
DeJonge VS Oregon (Assembly)
Supreme Court confirmed that the right to peaceable assembly is equally as important as the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. Under the First Amendment, the government cannot abridge “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” -
Mapp VS Ohio
Evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions in state courts. -
Mapp VS Ohio (Unreasonable Search)
Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions in state courts. -
Engel VS Vitale
It is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools. -
Engel VS Vitale (Religion)
Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools. -
Gideon VS Wainwright
States are required to provide an attorny to defendants who cannot afford one. -
Gideon VS Wainwright (Right to Counsel)
Unanimously ruled states are required to provide an attorney to defendants who can't afford one. -
Malloy VS Hogan (Self Incrimination)
Deemed defendants' Fifth Amendment privilege not to be compelled to be witnesses against themselves was applicable within state courts as well as federal courts, overruling the decision in Twining v. New Jersey. -
Griswold VS Connecticut (Right to Privacy)
Connecticut "Cornstock law" that prohibited any person from using "any drug, medicinal article or instrument from the purpose of preventing conception." -
Benton VS Maryland (Double Jeopardy)
The decision that holding Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment as applied to the states is an element of liberty protected by Due Process of the Fourteenth Amendment. The opinion by Justice Thurgood Marshall was the last major provision of the Bill of Rights to apply to the states by incorporation through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Barker VS Wingo (Speedy Trial)
The court held that determinations of whether or not the right to a speedy trial has been violated by the 6th Amendment (defendants right in criminal cases to a speedy trial) and must be made on a case-by-case basis and set 4 factors to be considered. -
Gregg VS Georgia (Cruel and Unusual Punishment)
Decision that upheld the constitiutionality of the death penalty as "as extreme sanction, suitable to the most extreme of crimes." -
McDonald VS Chicago (2nd Amendment)
That the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,” applies to state and local governments as well as to the federal government.
