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LEGL 2700 Roessing Test 1 Cases Exam/25 Complete Q’s and A’s
LEGL 2700 Roessing Test 1 Cases Exam/25 Complete Q’s and A’s
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LEGL 2700 Roessing Test 1 CasesExam/25 Complete Q’s and A’s
United States v. Windsor - -Same sex marriage- landmark civil rights case in
which the United States Supreme Court held that restricting U.S. federal
interpretation of "marriage" and "spouse" to apply only to opposite-sex
unions, by Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), is
unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
-Kelo v. City of New London - -Eminent domain- case decided by the
Supreme Court of the United States involving the use of eminent domain to
transfer land from one private owner to another private owner to further
economic development
-District of Colombia v. Heller
(2nd amendment) - -Guns- landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the
United States held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right
to possess a firearm, unconnected with service in a militia, for traditionally
lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home, and that Washington,
D.C.'s handgun ban and requirement that lawfully-owned rifles and shotguns
be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock" violated this
guarantee
-NY Times v. United States - -Publish Pentagon Papers- landmark decision
by the United States Supreme Court on the First Amendment. The ruling
made it possible for The New York Times and The Washington Post
newspapers to publish the then-classified Pentagon Papers without risk of
government censorship or punishment
-Elonis v. United States - -United States Supreme Court case concerning
whether conviction of threatening another person over interstate lines
requires proof of subjective intent to threaten, or whether it is enough to
show that a "reasonable person" would regard the statement as threatening
-Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association - -Obscenity- landmark case
by the Supreme Court of the United States that struck down a 2005
California law banning the sale of certain violent video games to children
without parental supervision
-Snyder v. Phelps - -Phelps family's religion- landmark United States
Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court ruled that speech on a matter
of public concern, on a public street, cannot be the basis of liability for a tort
of emotional distress, even in the circumstances that the speech is viewed or
interpreted as "offensive" or "outrageous"
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