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4th amendment
Weeks v. United States: police officers in kansas city went to the house of Mr. Fremont and used his hidden key to go in and search his home. they took papers and documents and used them to prove Mr. Fremont guilty of sending lottery tickets through the mail. -
5th amendment
Ashcraft v. Tennessee: a case was thrown out due to harsh interrogation. officers had an accused suspect sit under very bright lights for 36 hours until he confessed. the case was thrown out because the judge felt as if his confession was forced -
4th amendment
Abel v. United States- While Abel was in custody, on account of a INS warrant, the FBI searched and seized evidence. -
1st amendment
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District: three students decided to protest the Vietnam war by wearing black wristbands. they was suspended from school because of the new schools policy, banning wristbands on school grounds. the students sued the school district for violating their first amendment rights. -
8th amendment
Furman v. Georgia: William Furman was sentenced to death after found guilty of murder while attempting to rob a house. According to Justice Potter Stewart the death penalty was given to him simply because he was black. So therefore it violated his 8th amendment rights. -
4th amendment
Cupp v. Murphy- After hearing that Murphys ex wife has been murdered he voluntarily went to the police station for questioning. A police officer noticed a spot on his finger and thought it was dried blood and asked if they could take scrapings from it and run test on it. Murphy refused but they ran test anyways. -
1st amendment
Ingraham v. Wright: a 14 year old boy was taken to the principals office after a teacher claimed he was being loud in the auditorium. the principal decided his punishment was going to be 5 swats with a paddle, the young boy refused the paddles claiming he hadnt done anything wrong so the principal held him down and began to hit him 20 times with the paddle -
6th amendment
a defendant was convicted of shoplifting and fined $50 in a bench trial. The law stated that the maximum penalty was $500 fine or 1 year in jail. The defendant claimed his 6th amendment rights were violated because he could not hire an attorney and the court had not appointed him one. -
3rd amendment
Engblom v. Carey: two correction officers sued the governor of New York claiming that their due process and 3rd amendment rights were violated during a statewide strike. -
4th amendment
New Jersey v. T.L.O: a 14 year old girl was caught smoking in the bathroom at school and when questioned about it in the principal's office she denied it. The principal then demanded the girls purse and went through it and found cigarettes, rolling papers, etc. -
1st amendment
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier: a public high school principal removed two articles from the school newspaper because he thought they was inappropriate. three students from the journalism class sued the school because they felt as if their 1st amendment rights were violated -
1st amendment
Westside Community Schools v, Mergens: Mergens was a senior. She asked her principal if she could start a christian club and her principal told her she could not do so due to it was illegal in a public school, which was false. Mergens then took this case to court. -
4th amendment
Vernonia School District v. Acton: the school authorized a policy where they would drug test students athletes due to a drug problem. They claim student athletes were the dealers and doers. And 7th grade student refused the drug test and was told if he didnt take the drug test he couldn't participate and he sued the school for violating his rights. -
14th amendment
Grutter v. Bollinger: Grutter, a white Michigan resident, was denied admission to the University of Michigan Law School. Grutter sued the university over the schools affirmative action policy, which considered race as a factor in admissions. Grutter claimed that Michigan admitted less-qualified minority applicants in violation of federal civil rights and 14th amendments. -
1st amendment
Santa Fe Independent School District v. Jane Doe- A Texas school allowed a student to lead a prayer over the public address system before a football game. Several anonymous students and parents sued the school claiming a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. -
4th amendment
Safford Unified School District v. Redding: a 13 year old student was searched in school because another student claimed that the pills she had came from the 13 year old Savana. Savana then sued the school for violating her 4th amendment right. -
4th amendment
Michael Frederick was awaken at 4 in the morning to knocking. When he opened the door there was 7 armed officers from KANET. They then searched his home and found marijuana butter and pot brownies.
