Constitutional Law II -- Cases + Topics

  1. Slavery
    • - State v. Post
    • - Dred Scott v. Sandford
  2. Separate but Equal
    • - Plessy v. Ferguson
    • - Cumming v. BOE
    • - McCabe v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
    • - Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
    • - Sweatt v. Painter
    • - McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents
  3. Rejection of Separate but Equal
    • - Brown v. BOE of Topeka I 
    • - Brown v. BOE of Topeka II
  4. Resistance to Brown and Judicial Relief
    • - Cooper v. Aaron 
    • - Milliken v. Bradley I 
    • - Milliken v. Bradley II
  5. Equal Protection: Rational Basis: Economic Regulations
    • - New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer
    • - Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery 
    • - Railway Express Agency v. New York 
    • - Williamson v. Lee Optical
  6. Equal Protection Methodology: Animus/Spite Against an Unpopular View
    • - U.S. Department of Agriculture v. Moreno
    • - City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center
    • - Romer v. Evans
  7. Equal Protection: Heightened Scrutiny: Race Classifications
    • - Strauder v. West Virginia
    • - Korematsu v. United States
    • - Loving v. Virginia
  8. Facially Neutral Classifications That Disadvantage Racial Minorities: Disparate Application
    - Yick Wo v. Hopkins
  9. Facially Neutral Classifications That Disadvantage Racial Minorities: Disparate Effects
    • - Washington v. Davis 
    • - Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing 
    • - Rogers v. Lodge
    • - Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney 
    • - Palmer v. Thompson 
    • - Gomillion v. Lightfoot
    • - Mayor of Philadelphia v. Educations Equality League
    • - McClesky v. Kemp
  10. Racial Classifications Adopted to Benefit Racial Minorities
    • - Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
    • - Fullilove v. Klutznik
    • - Wygant v. Jackson BOE 
    • Sheet Metal Workers Local 28, Sheet Metal Workers International Association v. EEOC
    • - Richmond v. Cronson 
    • - Adarand  Constructors v. Pena
  11. Use of Race to Achieve a Diverse Student Body
    • - Grutter v. Bollinger 
    • - Gratz v. Bollinger 
    • - Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District
  12. Altering the Political Process that Adversely Affects Minorities
    - Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action
  13. Racial Classifications to Separate Prisoners
    - Johnson v. California
  14. Race-Specific Voting Districts
    • - Shaw v. Reno 
    • - Miller v. Johnson
  15. Intermediate Scrutiny: Gender Discrimination: Real Diff v. Stereotypes
    • - Bradwell v. Illinois 
    • - Hoyt v. Florida
    • - Reed v. Reed
    • - Frontiero v. Richardson 
    • - Craig v. Boren 
    • - United States v. Virginia (VMI) 
    • - Michael M. v. Sonoma County Superior Court (Statutory Rape) 
    • - Nguyễn v. Immigration and Naturalization Services
    • - Califano v. Goldfarb
  16. Intermediate Scrutiny: Gender Discrimination: Benign Gender Classifications
    • - Johnson v. Transportation Agency 
    • - Califano v. Webster
  17. Sexual Orientation
    • - Romer v. Evans
    • - United States v. Windsor
    • - Obergefell v. Hodges
  18. Other Candidates for Heightened Scrutiny: Alienage
    - Sugarman v. Dougall
  19. Other Candidates for Heightened Scrutiny: Wealth Classifications
    • - Edwards v. California 
    • - Douglas v. California 
    • - Harper v. Virginia Bd. of Elections
  20. Other Candidates for Heightened Scrutiny: Mentally Handicapped
    - City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center
  21. Understanding Fundamental Interests and the Right to Reproduce
    - Skinner v. Oklahoma
  22. Voting as an Implied Fundamental Rights
    • - Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections 
    • - Kramer v. Union Free School District 
    • - Slayer Land Co. v. Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District
    • - Dunn v. Blumstein 
    • - Reynolds v. Sims
    • - City of Mobile v. Bolden
  23. Implied Fundamental Rights: Denial of Access to the Ballot
    - Williams v. Rhodes
  24. Access to the Judicial Process and Wealth
    • - Griffin v. Illinois 
    • - Douglas v. California 
    • - Boddie v. Connecticut 
    • - MLB v. SLJ
  25. Implied Fundamental Right: Right to Travel
    • - Shapiro v. Thompson 
    • - Saenz v. Roe 
    • - Memorial Hospital v. Maricopa County
  26. Fundamental Right to Welfare
    - Dandridge v. Williams
  27. Fundamental Right to Education
    • - San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez 
    • - Plyer v. Doe
  28. Substantive due process: the Protection of Economic Rights
    • - Lochner v. New York
    • - Nebbia v. New York 
    • - West Coast Hotel Co v. Parrish 
    • - Williamson v. Lee Optical 
    • - United States v. Carolene Products Co.
  29. Substantive DP Outside of Economics: Right to Privacy
    - Griswold v. Connecticut
  30. Substantive DP Outside of Economics: Abortion
    • - Roe v. Wade
    • - Maher v. Roe
    • - Harris v. McRae
    • - Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
    • - Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey 
    • - Gonzalez v. Carhart 
    • - Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt 
    • - June Medical Services LLC v. Russo
    • - Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization -- obliterated entire edifice of abortion precedent
  31. Substantive DP Outside of Economics: Family and Other Privacy Interests
    • - Moore v. City of East Cleveland 
    • - Lyng v. Castillo 
    • - Zablocki v. Redhail 
    • - California v. Jobst
  32. Substantive DP Outside of Economics: Homosexuality and Sodomy
    • - Bowers v. Hardwick 
    • - Lawerence v. Texas
  33. Substantive DP Outside of Economics: The Right to Die
    • - Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health 
    • - Washington v. Glucksberg
  34. Procedural Due Process
    • - Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth 
    • - Perry v. Sindermann
    • - Cleveland BOE v. Loudermill 
    • - Mathews v. Eldridge
  35. Content-Based Regulations: Subversive Advocacy
    • - Shaffer v. United States 
    • - Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten
    • - Schenck v. United States 
    • - Frohwerk v. United States
    • - Debs v. United States -- no direct prohibition of speech b/c it induces listeners to engage in criminal activity since this case
    • - Abrams v. United States
    • - Gitlow v. New York 
    • - Whitney v. California -- overruled 
    • - Dennis v. United States
    • - Yates v. United States
    • - Kingsley International Pictures Corp v. Regents of New York 
    • - Scales v. United States
    • - Brandenburg v. Ohio -- hate speech standard; no one has been convicted of hate speech since 
    • - Hess v. Indiana 
    • - NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. 
    • - Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
  36. Content Based Regulation: Criticism of Judicial Process
    - Bridges v. California
  37. Content Based Regulation: Speech that Threatens
    • - Watts v. United States 
    • - Planned Parenthood v. American Coalition of Life Activists
  38. Content Based Regulation: Speech that Provokes a Hostile Audience Reaction
    • - Terminello v. Chicago 
    • - Cantwell v. Connecticut 
    • - Feiner v. New York -- no conviction b/c speech incites violence since this case 
    • - Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire -- controlling; no conviction b/c of fighting words since this case
    • - Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America 
    • - Forsythe County, Georgia v. the Nationalist Movement 
    • - Edwards v. South Carolina 
    • - Cox v. Louisiana 
    • - Gregory v. City of Chicago 
    • - Snyder v. Phelps
  39. Content Based Regulation: Speech That Discloses Confidential Information
    • - Landmark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia
    • - Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart 
    • - New York Times Co. United States; United States v. Washington Post Co. (Pentagon Papers Case) 
    • - Snepp v. United States 
    • - Progressive Controversy Case: United States v. The Progressive, Inc. 
    • - Haig v. Agee -- exception to PR
  40. Content Based Restrictions: Low Value Speech: False Statements of Fact
    • - NYT v. Sullivan 
    • - Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts; Associated Press v. Walker 
    • - Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  41. Content Based Restrictions: Low Value Speech: Parody
    Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
  42. Content Based Restrictions: Low Value Speech: Commercial Advertising
    • - Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council 
    • - Central Hudson Gas v. Public Services Commission of New York -- gives standard 
    • - Posadas - overruled
    • - Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island 
    • - Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Reilly
    • - Thompson v. Western States Medical Center
  43. Content Based Restrictions: Low Value Speech: Obscenity
    • - Roth v. United States 
    • - Alberts v. California 
    • - Stanley v. Georgia 
    • - United States v. Reidel 
    • - Miller v. California -- obscenity standard; use in an analysis, NOT Roth 
    • - Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton
  44. Content Based Restrictions: Low Value Speech: Child Pornography
    • - New York v. Ferber
    • - Ashcroft v. The Free Speech Coalition 
    • - United States v. Williams
  45. Content Based Restrictions: Low Value Speech: the Lewd, Profane and Indecent
    • - Cohen v. California 
    • - Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union 
    • - Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union 
    • - Young v. American Mini Theaters
  46. Content-Neutral Restrictions: Determining Content Neutrality
    • - Schneider v. State
    • - Martin v. City of Struthers 
    • - Kovacs v. Cooper
    • - Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego 
    • - City of Ladue v. Gilleo
  47. Streets and Parks as Public Forums
    • - Commonwealth v. Davis 
    • - Hague v. CIO -- "in the public trust" standard
    • - Schneider v. State II 
    • - Ward v. Rock against Racism 
    • - Clark v. Community for Creative Non-violence - content neutral standard clearly explicated
    • - Cox v. New Hampshire
    • - Forsythe County GA v. the Nationalist Movement
  48. Public Property Other than Streets and Parks
    • - Adderley v. Florida
    • - Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness
    • - Greer v. Spock 
    • - U.S. Postal Service v. Council of Greenburgh Civic Associations 
    • - United States v. Kokinda
    • - International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee
  49. Content Neutrality Where Granting Access to a Public Forum
    • - Police Dept of Chicago v. Mosley 
    • - Lehman v. Shaker Heights 
    • - Perry Educators Association v. Perry Local Educators Association 
    • - Arkansas Education Television Commission v. Forbes
  50. Symbolic Conduct
    • - United States v. OBrien 
    • - Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District 
    • - Schacht v. United States
    • - Texas v. Johnson 
    • - United States v. Eichman 
    • - Barnes v. Glen Theater Inc
    • - City of Erie v. Paps AM
  51. The Right Not to Speak or Associate
    • - NAACP v. Alabama
    • - Roberts v. US Jayceees
    • - Boy Scouts v. Dale
    • - Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins 
    • - West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
    • - Wooley v. Maynard
  52. Regulating the Modern Mass Media to Correct Against Market Failures
    • - Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo 
    • - Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC
    • - Turner Broadcasting System v. FCC
  53. Meaning of Non-Support for Religion
    • Everson v. BOE 
    • Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of Univ. of Va. 
    • School District of Abington Tp. v. Schempp
    • McCreary County v. ACLU of KY
  54. How We Define Religion
    • United States v. Seeger
    • Welsh v. United States
    • Gilette v. United States
    • United States v. Ballard
  55. The Establishment Clause - Anti-Coercion
    • Lee v. Weisman 
    • Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe
  56. Endorsement of Religion and the Establishment Clause
    • Lynch v. Donnelly 
    • McGowan v. Maryland 
    • Walz v. Tax Common of the City of NY
    • Jackman v. Rosenbaum Co. 
    • Capital Square Review & Advisory Bd. v. Pinette
    • Marsh v. Chambers
    • Salazar v. Buono
  57. Establishment Clause Test
    - Kennedy v. Bremerton School District -- new standard
  58. Statutes that are facially neutral but aid religion
    • Mueller v. Allen 
    • Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
    • Aguilar v. Felton
  59. Targeting of Religious Groups and Animus
    Trump v. Hawaii
  60. Is the gov't required to provide religious accommodations under the free exercise clause
    • - Braunfield v. Brown 
    • - Sherbert v. Verner
    • - Wisconsin v. Yoder
    • - Employment Division, Dept of HR v. Smith 
    • - Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah
  61. Permissible Accommodations and the Establishment Clause
    • - Corporation of Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
    • - Texas Monthly v. Bullock 
    • - Board of Ed. of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet
    • - Estate of Thornton v. Caldor, Inc
    • - Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
  62. State Action and Federalism
    - Civil Rights Cases
  63. Government Inaction
    • - De Shaney v. Winnebago County Services
    • - Flag Brothers v. Brooks 
    • - Lugar v. Edmonson Oil 
    • - NCAA v. Tarkanian 
    • - Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association
  64. State Action and the Lack of Gov't Neutrality
    • - Shelley v. Kraemer
    • - Bell v. Maryland
  65. State Subsidization, Approval and Encouragement as Violaitions of Neutrality: Gov Subsidization of Private Conduct
    • - Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority 
    • - Rendell-Baker v. Kohn 
    • - San Francisco Arts and Athletics v. United States Olympic Committee
    • - West v. Adkins
  66. State Licensing and Authorization of Unconstitutional Conduct
    • - Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak 
    • - Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis
    • - Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Company
  67. When Must a State Depart from Neutrality: Public Function Doctrine
    Marsh v. Alabama
  68. Unconstitutional Conditions
    • - Rust v. Sullivan 
    • - Maher v. Roe
    • - Nollan v. California Commission
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