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    Use your book (chapters 5 and 6), lectures, and the Internet to define the following cases and laws. Make sure to include details of the cases and most importantly the precedents that they set. 108 points possible.

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    Use your book (chapters 5 and 6), lectures, and the Internet to define the following cases and laws. Make sure to include details of the cases and most importantly the precedents that they set. 108 points possible.

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    Use your book (chapters 5 and 6), lectures, and the Internet to define the following cases and laws. Make sure to include details of the cases and most importantly the precedents that they set. 108 points possible.

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    Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Cases and Laws Use your book (Chapters 5 & 6), lectures, and the

    Internet to define the following cases and laws. Make sure to include details of the cases and most importantly the precedents that they set. 108 points possible. Note: A great resource to use for additional information about these cases can be found at www.oyez.org. Just type in your case in the search portion and a brief summary of contents and precedents will be displayed. 1. Civil Rights Act (1964) 2. Civil Rights Act (1968) 3. Voting Rights Act (1965) 4. Brown v. Board (1954) 5. Roe v. Wade (1973) 6. Barron v. Baltimore (1833) 7. Gitlow v. New York (1925) 8. Palko v. Connecticut (1937) 9. Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) 10. Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) 11. Engle v. Vitale (1962) 12. Abbington v. Shemp (1963)

    13. Epperson v. Arkansas (1968) 14. Oregon v. Smith (1990) 15. Religious Freedom Restoration Act (1993) 16. Boerne v. Flores (1997) 17. Reynolds v. U.S. (1878) 18. Schenck v. U.S. (1919) 19. NY Times v. U.S. (1971) 20. Texas v. Johnson (1989) 21. U.S. v. OBrien (1968) 22. Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) 23. Smith Act (1940) 24. Freedom of Information Act (1966) 25. Electronic Freedom of Information Act (1996) 26. U.S. v. Nixon (1974) 27. New York Times v. Sullivan (1968)

    28. Miller v. California (1973) 29. Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1973) 30. Communications Decency Act (1997) 31. Reno v. ACLU (1997) 32. Hatch Act (1939) 33. Buckly v. Valeo (1976) 34. Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America (1978) 35. Title IX of Education Act of 1972 36. Reed v. Reed (1971) 37. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 38. Kerner Report (1968) 39. Lau v. Nichols (1974) 40. U.C. regents v. Bakke (1978) 41. Richmond v. Croson (1989) 42. Adarand v. Pena (1995) 43. Shaw v. Reno (1993)

    44. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1987) 45. Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) 46. Bush v. Gore (2000) 47. Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S. (1964) 48. Age Discrimination in Employment Act (1967) 49. Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) 50. Mapp v. Ohio (1961) 51. Weeks v. U.S. (1914) 52. Gideon v. Wainright (1963) 53. Johnson v. Zerbst (1938) 54. Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

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