FCLE - Supreme Courts Cases Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
The state can't hold prayers in public schools, even if participation is
not required. -
correct answer ✅Engle v. Vitale (1962)
Allowed states to provide textbooks and busing to students
attending private religious schools. Established 3-part test to
determine if establishment clause is violated: nonsecular purpose,
advances/inhibits religion, excessive entanglement with
government. -
correct answer ✅Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
Government can limit speech if the speech provokes a "clear and
present danger" of substantive evils -
correct answer ✅Schneck v. United States (1919)
Public school students may wear armbands to class protesting
against America's war in Vietnam when such display does not
disrupt classes -
correct answer ✅Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Flag-burning is symbolic speech with a political purpose and is
protected by 1st Amendment. -
correct answer ✅Texas v. Johnson (1989)
, FCLE - Supreme Courts Cases Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Government can almost never use prior restraint (crossing out
sections of an article before publication)-protections for the press
were established here. The government sought to prevent the
publication of these "Pentagon Papers" by the New York Times.
Court held that executive efforts to prevent the publication violated
the 1st Amendment were forbidden -
correct answer ✅New York Times v United States (1971)
Supreme Court decision that avoided defining obscenity by holding
that community standards be used to determine whether material
is obscene in terms of appealing to a "prurient interest" and being
"patently offensive" and lacking in value -
correct answer ✅Miller v. California (1973)
Established exclusionary rule; illegally obtained evidence cannot be
used in court; Warren Court's judicial activism. -
correct answer ✅Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Supreme court case in which it was decided that a student may be
searched if there is "reasonable ground" for doing so. -
correct answer ✅New Jersey v. T.L.O (1985)
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
The state can't hold prayers in public schools, even if participation is
not required. -
correct answer ✅Engle v. Vitale (1962)
Allowed states to provide textbooks and busing to students
attending private religious schools. Established 3-part test to
determine if establishment clause is violated: nonsecular purpose,
advances/inhibits religion, excessive entanglement with
government. -
correct answer ✅Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
Government can limit speech if the speech provokes a "clear and
present danger" of substantive evils -
correct answer ✅Schneck v. United States (1919)
Public school students may wear armbands to class protesting
against America's war in Vietnam when such display does not
disrupt classes -
correct answer ✅Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Flag-burning is symbolic speech with a political purpose and is
protected by 1st Amendment. -
correct answer ✅Texas v. Johnson (1989)
, FCLE - Supreme Courts Cases Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Government can almost never use prior restraint (crossing out
sections of an article before publication)-protections for the press
were established here. The government sought to prevent the
publication of these "Pentagon Papers" by the New York Times.
Court held that executive efforts to prevent the publication violated
the 1st Amendment were forbidden -
correct answer ✅New York Times v United States (1971)
Supreme Court decision that avoided defining obscenity by holding
that community standards be used to determine whether material
is obscene in terms of appealing to a "prurient interest" and being
"patently offensive" and lacking in value -
correct answer ✅Miller v. California (1973)
Established exclusionary rule; illegally obtained evidence cannot be
used in court; Warren Court's judicial activism. -
correct answer ✅Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Supreme court case in which it was decided that a student may be
searched if there is "reasonable ground" for doing so. -
correct answer ✅New Jersey v. T.L.O (1985)
