Posts per category

1964 Civil Rights Act

• Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States: Title II 1964 Civil Rights Act; Motel Racial Discrimination (12/14/1964)

Eighth Amendment

• Roper v. Simmons: Minor Execution (03/01/2005)
• Robinson v. California: California Narcotics Law; Criminal Offense (06/25/1962)
• United States v. Bajakajian: Forfeiture of Sum of Money; Excessive Fines Clause (06/22/1998)

Equal Access Act

• West Side Community Schools v. Mergens: Equal Access Act (06/04/1990)

Equitable Tolling

• Menominee Tribe v. United States: Equitable Tolling (01/25/16)

First Amendment

• Wisconsin v. Yoder: State Law or Religious Freedom (05/15/1972)
• New York Times v. Sullivan: Protection of False Statements (03/09/1964)
• Bethel School District v. Fraser: Right to Lewd Speeches (07/07/1986)
• Morse v. Frederick: Promotion of Illegal Drug Use at School-Supervised Event (05/25/2007)
• West Side Community Schools v. Mergens: Equal Access Act (06/04/1990)
• Rowan v. United States Post Office Department: Certain Mail Entering Homes (05/04/1970)
• Santa Fe Independent School District v. Jane Doe: Student-Initiated Prayer (06/19/2000)
• United States v. Stevens: Animal Crush Videos; Free Speech (04/20/2010)
• Brandenburg v. Ohio: Public Speech Advocating Illegal Activities, Ohio Criminal Syndicalism Law (06/09/1969)
• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier: Principal Edit Newspaper (01/13/1988)

Fourteenth Amendment

• DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services
• Grutter v. Bollinger: Race Consideration in College Admissions (05/23/2003)
• Board of Ed. of Independence District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls: Extracurricular-Required Urinal Drug Test (05/27/2002)
• Obergefell v. Hodges: Licensing Same Sex Marriage (05/26/2015)
• Brown v. Board of Education: Segregation of Public Education (05/17/1954)
• Grutter v. Bollinger: Racial Student Admissions (06/23/2003)
• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke: Racial College Admissions (06/26/1978)
• Plessy v. Ferguson: Railroad Segregation “Separate But Equal” (04/13/1896)
• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: Federal Courts Remedying Segregation (04/20/1971)
• Loving v. Virginia: Interracial Marriage (06/12/1967)

Fourth Amendment

• Illinois v. Warlow: Flight from Police Officer and High Crime Area; Reasonable Suspicion (01/12/2000)
• Vernonia School District v. Acton: Reasonable Random Drug Searches (06/26/1995)
• Kyllo v. United States: Unwarranted Thermal Search (06/11/01)
• Terry v. Ohio: “Stop and Frisk” Under Probable Cause (06/10/1968)
• Katz v. United States: Wiretap Public Payphone (12/18/1967)
• Mapp v. Ohio: Illegally Obtained Evidence In Criminal Trial (06/19/1961)
• New Jersey v. T.L.O.: Exclusionary Rule, Purse Search (01/15/1985)
• Riley v. California: Warrantless Cell Phone Search (06/25/14)
• Birchfield v. North Dakota: Warrantless Blood Tests (06/23/16)

Second Amendment

• United States v. Miller: Individual Second Amendment Right (05/15/1939)
• District of Columbia v. Heller: Restrictions on Right to Bear Arms (06/26/2008)
• Voisine v. United States: Reckless Domestic Violence (06/27/16)

Sixth Amendment

• Duncan v. Louisiana: Right to Jury Trial (05/20/1968)
• Hurst v. Florida: Jury Sentencing (01/12/16)
• Betterman v. Montana: No Speedy Sentencing Guarantee (05/19/16)

Thirteenth Amendment

• Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer: Refusal to Make Estate Transaction Due to Skin Color (06/17/1968)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford: Freedom From Living to Free State (03/06/1857)

Uncategorized

• Coates v. City of Cincinnati: Prohibiting “Annoying” Speech (05/01/1971)
• Reno v. Condon: Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (12/12/2000)
• Kent v. United States: Juvenile Court Waiver of Jurisdiction (03/21/1966)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (Updated): Residence on “Free Soil” (03/06/1857)
• Neil Gorsuch: Supreme Court Nomination
• United States v. Nixon: “Executive Privilege” (07/24/1974)