https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8 Working with your group you will create a "timeline" of significant court cases. Using the cases you have to choose from in class, research them, add them to the proper category with a summary. en-us 2018-10-16 14:57:44 UTC 2026-03-17 07:39:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293395360

Date

Constitutional issue (posed as a question)

Decision (answer to question)

Votes for majority/dissenting opinion

]]> 2018-10-16 15:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293395360 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293395656  Date: 1803
Questions: Which branch of government is most powerful?
Decision: They are all equal as this cases establishes the ability of the Supreme Court to determine the Constitutionality of a law
Votes: 4 majority
                  2 dissenting ]]> 2018-10-16 15:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293395656 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293395775 At the end of each column provide an evaluation of what has changed or what has stayed the same over time for the given category. ]]> 2018-10-16 15:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293395775 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293423640 Date: January 19, 2011

Constitutional issue: May corporations assert personal privacy interests to prevent the government from releasing documents about them?

Decision: The decision was made that corporations can't assert personal privacy interests to prevent the government from releasing documents about them.

Votes for majority/dissenting opinion: Unanimous/everyone]]> 2018-10-16 15:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293423640 20esmith3 https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293423784 Date: Argued Jan 6-7 1964
Constitutional Issue: Did Alabama's law violate the first amendment regarding freedom of speech and freedom of press protections
Decision: The courts said that the newspaper company needed to know that the information they were publishing were false, but they did not, so they ruled in the New York Times favor
Votes: Unanimous in the New York Times favor ]]> 2018-10-16 15:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293423784 20icleck https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293423880 Date: Oct 5, 2010
Constitutional Issue: Should the NASA employees have to have overly intrusive background checks?
Decision: The Supreme Court still upheld the background checks and went with the first court's decision to have the background checks.
Votes for Majority: Unanimous]]> 2018-10-16 15:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293423880 20kmair https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293426148 Date Argued: Jan 8, 1997
Constitutional Issue:  Does banning physician assisted suicide for terminally ill adults violate the 14th Amendment?
Decision: No.  Banning physician assisted suicide does not violate the 14th Amendment.  Assisted suicide is not a fundamental liberty. 
Votes: everyone]]> 2018-10-16 15:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293426148 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293428192 Date: March 3, 1986

Constitutional issue: Does the First Amendment prevent a school district from disciplining a high school student for giving a lewd speech at a high school assembly?

Decision: The decisions was made that the first amendment did not prevent a school from discipling a high school student for giving a speech.

Votes for majority/dissenting opinion: 7 majority : 2 dissenting]]> 2018-10-16 15:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293428192 20icleck https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293431957 Date: Apr 3, 1962 
Constitutional Issue: Does praying at the beginning of a school day violate the first amendment?
Decision: The court decided that it was against the first amendment.
Votes for Majority: 6
Votes for Dissenting: 1]]> 2018-10-16 15:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293431957 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293432624 Date: December 13, 1971

Constitutional issue: Does the Constitution embrace a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy by abortion?

Decision: The Court has decided that women's right to an abortion falls into the right for privacy which is the followed by the 14th Amendment.

Votes for majority/dissenting opinion: 7 majority : 2 dissenting]]> 2018-10-16 15:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293432624 20esmith3 https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293433444 Date: Mar 29, 2000
Constitutional issue: Does the Santa Fe School District violate the 1st amendment by allowing these students to pray over the loud speaker?
Decision: Yes, allowing these students to pray over the loud speaker does violate the 1st amendment.
Vote: 6 for majority, 3 for dissenting  ]]> 2018-10-16 15:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293433444 20kmair https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293435435 Date Argued: March 21, 1989
Constitutional Issue:  Does the First Amendment protect the desecration of the American flag as a form of speech.
Decision: It was decided that the burning of the American flag was a form of expression and is protected under the First Amendment.
Vote: 5-to-4 vote]]> 2018-10-16 16:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293435435 20esmith3 https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293437281 Date: Feb 27-28 1963
Constitutional Issue: Does the Abington School District violate the 1st and 14th amendment by reading from the bible every day?
Decision: Public schools cannot read or recited of the Lord's prayer under the 1st
Vote: 8 majority 1 dissenting]]> 2018-10-16 16:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293437281 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293437471 First Amendment continues to protect the freedom of speech. It is still tightly kept but it has become ore lenient over the years.]]> 2018-10-16 16:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293437471 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293437737 Privacy has gotten more strict than before.]]> 2018-10-16 16:04:47 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293437737 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293437884 Not much has changed with this, because the 1st amendment is still being violated in schools
The court stayed strict about violation of the 1st amendment.]]> 2018-10-16 16:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293437884 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293438139 Over time, this issue has slowly gone away. You don't see it as much as what you did in the past. ]]> 2018-10-16 16:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293438139 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293438327 Protecting individual freedoms is something that has continued to be super important to the U.S.  We went from super strict, to being allowed to talk.]]> 2018-10-16 16:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293438327 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293438414 Through time, the amendments protected people from searches and let them have the right to be protected in trials. The United States stayed consistent with the choices and the decisions for the cases that included the rights of the accused. Everything stayed the same with the rights.]]> 2018-10-16 16:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293438414 20icleck https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293438975 Date:Jan 9 - 10, 1919
Constitutional Issue: Does the draft violate the first amendment?
Decision: The court claimed the issue did not violate the first amendment and that it was a proper use of the Congress's wartime authority.
Votes for majority: Unanimous

]]> 2018-10-16 16:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293438975 20kmair https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293442185 Date Argued: Nov 12, 1968
Constitutional Issue: Does the First Amendment protect the students symbolic protest wearing armbands in public school?
Decision:  The First Amendment protects these students.  The student's right to speech does not go away when they step on school grounds. 
Votes: 7-to-2 vote]]> 2018-10-16 16:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293442185 20kmair https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293886812 Date Argued: Nov 12, 1968
Constitutional Issue: Does the First Amendment protect the students symbolic protest wearing armbands in public school?
Decision:  The First Amendment protects these students.  The student's right to speech does not go away when they step on school grounds. 
Votes: 7-to-2 vote]]> 2018-10-17 14:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293886812 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293887965 Date Argued: May 2 - 3, 1935
Constitutional Issue: Did Congress unconstitutionally delegate legislative power to the President by giving him power to regulate certain industries without also providing guiding standards?
Decision: The decision was made that Schechter Poultry Corp. won the case. The president can't be allowed to have the control to make laws that he/she believes are necessary to achieve a goal.
Votes: Unanimous]]> 2018-10-17 14:48:40 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293887965 20kmair https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293888712 Date:Jan 9 - 10, 1919
Constitutional Issue: Did Schenck's conviction under the Espionage Act for criticizing the draft violate his First Amendment right to freedom of speech?
Decision: The court claimed the issue did not violate the first amendment and that it was a proper use of the Congress's wartime authority.
Votes for majority: Unanimous

]]> 2018-10-17 14:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293888712 20esmith3 https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293889242 Date: Oct 11-12 1944
Constitutional Issue: Did the president and congress violate Japanese-Americans 5th amendment?
Decision: The exclusion order applying to Americans of Japanese descent was lawful
Votes: 6 majority, 3 dissenting]]> 2018-10-17 14:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293889242 20icleck https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293890118 Date: Jan 15, 1963
Constitutional Issue: Does the 6th amendment apply to felony defendants in state courts?Decision: The 6th amendment does reach the state courts. He can have a lawyer.
Votes: Unanimous]]> 2018-10-17 14:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293890118 20kmair https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293891455 Date Argued: Dec 9-11, 1952
Constitutional Issue: Is the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated when public education is segregated based on race?
Decision: This does violate the Fourteenth Amendment and the claim of being "separate but equal" was indeed decided it was not equal.
Vote: unanimous]]> 2018-10-17 14:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293891455 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293892285 Date Argued: Apr 29, 1964
Constitutional Issue: Was Escobedo denied the right to counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment?
Decision: The court has decided that Escobedo's rights were violated. He wasn't allowed a lawyer and that is part of the 6th amendment, which is to speak to an attorney.
Votes: 5 majority : 4 dissenting]]> 2018-10-17 14:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293892285 20esmith3 https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293893346 Date: Mar 29, 1961
Constitutional Issue: Did the police violate Dollree Mapp's freedom on expression?
Decision: The majority moved aside the 1st amendment issue, and went straight to the 4th amendment, that all evidence obtained by searches and seizures is inadmissible
Vote: 6 majority, 3 dissenting]]> 2018-10-17 14:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293893346 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293894990 Date Argued:Oct 5, 1964
Constitutional Issue: Did Congress, in passing Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, exceed its Commerce Clause powers by depriving places of public accommodation of the right to choose their own customers?
Decision: The Commerce Clause extends the anti-discrimination provisions in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to hotels that host travelers from outside the state.
Votes: Unanimous]]> 2018-10-17 14:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293894990 20icleck https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293896289 Dates: 2/11-18/1856
Constitutional Issue: Did filing residence in a free land make you free?
Decision: The court decided that the slavery went against the 5th amendment.
Votes: 7-2]]> 2018-10-17 15:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293896289 20kmair https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293897088 Date Argued: Jul 8, 1974
Constitutional Issue: Should the President be able to use his "executive privilege" to hide things from judicial review?
Decision:  it was voted that the President should not be able to have the power to keep things from the judicial review just because he's the President.
Vote: unanimous ]]> 2018-10-17 15:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293897088 20esmith3 https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293897632 Date: Apr 13, 1896
Constitutional Issue: Did the Separate Car Act violate Plessy's 13th and 14th amendment?
Decision:Equal but separate accommodations for whites and blacks imposed by Louisiana do not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment
Votes: 7 majority, 1 dissenting ]]> 2018-10-17 15:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293897632 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293898939 The President still can't make laws, even if it benefits the country. ]]> 2018-10-17 15:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293898939 20icleck https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293900495 Date: Dec 11, 2000
Constitutional Issue: Was Florida allowed to make/change a new voting law?
Decision: The recounts violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
Vote: The President's decision.]]> 2018-10-17 15:05:57 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293900495 20kmoroz https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293945354 Date: 1966
Constitutional Issue: Does the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination extend to the police interrogation of a suspect?
Decision: That you have to have your rights read to you.
Vote: 5 majority : 4 dissenting]]> 2018-10-17 16:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/20kmoroz/w8n21m0tqhi8/wish/293945354