Supreme Court Haiku

Burger Court (1969-1986)

Following Warren

Nixon sought Conservative

But change not pronounced

WALZ V. TAX COMMISSION (1970)
State property tax
May exempt church property
No Establishment
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) (“The Lemon Test”)
Secular purpose
Excessive Entanglement
Primary Effect
WISCONSIN V. YoDER (1972)
Three Amish students
May leave school after 8^th grade
Free Exercise Clause
Flood v. Kuhn (1972)
Baseball's Reserve Clause
Old Antitrust exemption
Floodnot free to flee
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Reproductive choice
Penumbras and due process
'Til trimester three
United States v. Nixon (1974)
Watergate scandal
Executive privilege
Not unqualified
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
Capital sentence
Not cruel and unusual
Procedures outlined
Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard BroadCASTING Co. (1977)
Human cannonball
Do not broadcast his whole act
Publicity rights
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
College admissions
Affirmative action fine
Racial quotas not.
Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983)
A.G. decision
No legislative veto
Executive act
BOB JONES UNIVERSITY v. UNITED STATES (1983)
Private Christian School
Interracial dating ban?
They must pay taxes
Lynch v. donnelly (1984)
Jesus in manger
Amongst Santa Claus and tree
Secular purpose
New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)
Search of student bag
Principal needs no warrant
Search reasonable