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Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Review Sheet

(How hard is this test? I’m going to take the fifth)

Definition of civil liberties

Barron v Baltimore and dual citizenship

14th amendment - privileges and immunities, due process, and equal protection

Slaughterhouse cases

Nationalization or incorporation of the bill of rights

Criminal rights

    Gideon v Wainwright

    Mapp v. Ohio -- exclusionary rule

4th amendment     

    -expectation of privacy, 

    - reasonable suspicion, probably cause

    - Terry stops

    -- allowable warrantless searches

5th amendment

    totality of circumstances vs objective procedures

Escobedo v Illinois

Miranda v Arizona

Student rights -- Bethel, Hazelwood, Morse

Privacy rights

            Griswold v. Connecticut

Roe v. Wade

            Lawrence v Texas

Establishment and free exercise

            The evolution of the Free exercise standards (Minersville v Gobbitis, Oregon v Smith, Religious Freedom Restoration Act)

Engel v Vitale (and prayer in schools generally)

Lemon test (and public support for religious schools generally)

Public displays of religious symbols 

Free speech standards:

Schenck v US

Gitlow v New York

            Imminent unlawful acts

            Time, place, manner restrictions

Obscenity

            Miller v California

Definition of civil rights

Civil Rights Cases of 1883 -- state action doctrine

Plessy v Ferguson -- separate but equal

Brown v Board

            Massive resistance

Civil Rights Act of 1964

De jure and De facto discrimination

Busing

            Swann and Milliken decisions

Affirmative action

            Bakke decision

            University of Michigan decisions

            Parents v Seattle 

Sexual harassment

            Quid pro quo and hostile workplace

Protected classes (what are they and what standards apply)

Strict scrutiny, rational basis, and intermediate standards

Romer v Evans, Lawrence v Texas, and the Oregon Equality Act