BUSAD 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: American Civil Liberties Union, United States Constitution, Chaplinsky V. New Hampshire
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State law regulating private pension funds was declared illegal because it violated the contracts clause. Austin v. michigan chamber of commerce - supreme court upheld michigan law limiting corporate political speech. Barron v. baltimore - 1833 supreme court decision holding that the bill of rights restrained only the national government, not the states and cities. Brown v. board of education - 1954 - the supreme court overruled plessy v. Ferguson, ends separate but equal doctrine, defining moment of the beginning of the civil rights movement. Declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated. Cammarano v. us - supreme court ruled that businesses could not write off legal expenses "for the defeat of legislation" as ordinary and necessary expenses on their income tax filing. Cantwell v. connecticut - the right to believe a religion is absolute, the right to practice the religion is not absolute.
