This is a list of the court decisions GOVT 2305 - 5 week students wrote about this summer. Each decision allows the court to clarify - or update or modify or change - any number of topics we cover in class. Some of these topics might be on the final, so a look at these cases can also help you prep for the final.
You should also be prepared for questions related to the role of the courts in the governing process, controversies about that role, and the judicial process. Given the centrality of the judicial branch, you should be comfortable with questiosn about it.
Rodriquez v United States:
- Fourth Amendment
- procedural liberties
- unreasonable search and seizures
Hobbs v Holt:
- First Amendment
- substantive liberties
- religious freedom
- criminal justice
Young v. UPS:
- the equal protection clause
- the Civil Rights Act
- discrimination
- disparate treatment
- intermediate review
Yates v United States:
- strict and loose construction
- search and seizure
Glossip v Gross:
- eight amendment
- cruel and unusual punishment
North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v The Federal Trade Commission:
- regulatory agencies
- agency capture
- interest groups
- monopolies
EEOC v Abercrombie and Fitch:
- religious liberty
- the Civil Rights Act
- executive agencies
- disparate treatment
- discrimination
Michigan v EPA:
- regulatory policy
- the EPA
- strict construction
Walker v Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc.
- first amendment
- freedom of speech
- government speech
- private speech
City and County of San Francisco v Sheehan:
- mental disabilities
- fourth amendment
- warrantless searches
- qualified immunity
Johnson v. United States:
- due process rights
- procedural liberties
- strict construction
