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Recent Additions

  Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. (2007)
  Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)
  Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. (2007)
  Morse v. Frederick (2007)
  Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1;
                  Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (2007)

Part I. The Supreme Court and the Constitution

The Living Constitution

        Coleman v. Miller (1939)
        NOW v. Idaho (1982)

1. Understanding the Supreme Court

      [No supplemental cases in this chapter]

2. The Judiciary: Institutional Powers and Constraints

  Judicial Review
      Scott v. Sandford (1857)
  Constraints on Judicial Power
      Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816)
      Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)
      Muskrat v. United States (1911)
      DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974)
      International Longshoreman's Union v. Boyd (1954)
      Luther v. Borden (1849)
      Colegrove v. Green (1946)
      Frothingham v. Mellon (1923)
      Flast v. Cohen (1968)
      Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. (2007)
      Raines v. Byrd (1997)
      Coleman v. Miller (1939)

3. Incorporation of the Bill of Rights

  Incorporation Through the Fourteenth Amendment: Early Interpretations
      Scott v. Sandford (1857)
      Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
      Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Chicago (1897)
      Maxwell v. Dow (1900)
  A Standard Emerges
      Twining v. New Jersey (1908)
  Incorporation in the Aftermath of Palko
      Adamson v. California (1947)

Part II: Civil Liberties

  Approaching Civil Liberties
      United States v. Carolene Products (1938)

4. Religion: Exercise and Establishment

  Defining Religion
      Reynolds v. United States (1879)
      United States v. Ballard (1944)
      United States v. Seeger (1965)
  Free Exercise of Religion
      Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925)
      Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
      Prince v. Massachusetts (1944)
      Braunfeld v. Brown (1961)
      Thomas v. Review Board of Indiana Employment Security Division (1981)
      Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)
      United States v. Lee (1982)
      Goldman v. Weinberger (1986)
      Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988)
      Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993)
      Cutter v. Wilkinson (2005)
      Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao Do Vegital (2006)
  Religious Establishment
      Bradfield v. Roberts (1899)
      Board of Education v. Allen, (1968)
      Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York (1970)
      Tilton v. Richardson, (1971)
      Aguilar v. Felton (1985)
      Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet (1994)
      Mitchell v. Helms (2000)
      Locke v. Davey (2004)
      Zorach v. Clauson (1952)
      Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993)
      Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of Univ. of Va. (1995)
      Epperson v. Arkansas, (1968)
      Engel v. Vitale (1962)
      Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
      Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000)
      Lynch v. Donnelly (1984)
      County of Allegheny v. ACLU (1989)
      McCreary County, Kentucky v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky (2005)
      Van Orden v. Perry (2005)

5. Freedom of Speech, Assembly, and Association

  The Development of Legal Standards: The Emergence of Law in Times of Crisis
      Whitney v. California (1927)
      Stromberg v. California (1931)
      DeJonge v. Oregon (1937)
      United States v. Carolene Products (1938)
      Schneider v. State of New Jersey (Town of Irvington) (1939)
      Thomas v. Collins (1945)
      American Communications Association v. Douds (1950)
      Yates v. United States (1957)
  Regulating Expression: Content and Contexts
      Thornhill v. Alabama (1940)
      Morse v. Frederick (2007)
      Ward v. Rock Against Racism (1989)
      Edwards v. South Carolina (1963)
      Adderley v. Florida (1966)
      Virginia v. Black (2003)
      Wooley v. Maynard (1977)
      Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth (2000)
      Rumsfeld v. FAIR (2006)
      Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (2002)
      Bigelow v. Virginia (1975)
      Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. (1976)
      Linmark Associates v. Township of Willingboro (1977)
      City of Cincinnati v. Discovery Network (1993)
      44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island (1996)
      NAACP v. Alabama (1958)
      Roberts v. United States Jaycees (1984)
      Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston (1995)
      California Democratic Party v. Jones (2000)

6. Freedom of the Press

  Government Control of Press Content
      Cox Broadcasting Corporation v. Cohn (1975)
      Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of the New York State Crime Victims Board (1991)
      Miami Herald v. Tornillo (1974)
      Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation (1978)
      Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC (1994)
      United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc. (2000)
  News Gathering and Special Rights
      Zurcher v. Stanford Daily (1978)
      Houchins v. KQED (1978)

7. The Boundaries of Free Expression: Obscenity and Libel

  Obscenity
      Butler v. Michigan (1957)
      Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964)
      Memoirs v. Massachusetts (1966)
      Ginzburg v. United States (1966)
      National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley (1998)
      Kingsley Books v. Brown (1957)
      Times Film Corporation v. Chicago (1961)
      Freedman v. Maryland (1965)
      Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union (2002)
      Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc. (1976)
      Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. (1991)
      American Booksellers Association, Inc. v. Hudnut (1986)
  Libel
      Curtis Publishing Company v. Butts (1967)
      Associated Press v. Walker (1967)
      Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967)
      Rosenbloom v. Metromedia (1971)
      Time, Inc. v. Firestone (1976)
      Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc. (1991)

8. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms

  [No supplemental cases in this chapter]

9. The Right to Privacy

  The Right to Privacy: Foundations
      Olmstead v. United States (1928)
      Lochner v. New York (1905)
      Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)
      Poe v. Ullman (1961)
  Reproductive Freedom and the Right to Privacy: Abortion
      Planned Parenthood v. Danforth (1976)
      Harris v. McCrae (1980)
      Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983)
      Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
      Stenberg v. Carhart (2000)
      Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)
  Private Activities and the Application of Griswold
      Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
      Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
      Washington v. Glucksberg (1997)
      Vacco v. Quill, (1997)
      Chandler v. Miller (1997)
      Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001)
      National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab (1989)
      Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton (1995)

Part III. The Rights of the Criminally Accused

  [No supplemental cases in this Part]

Ch. 10. Investigations and Evidence

  Searches and Seizures
      Olmstead v. United States (1928)
      Goldman v. United States (1942)
      Kyllo v. United States (2001)
      Brigham City v. Stuart (2006)
      Chimel v. California (1969)
      Cupp v. Murphy (1973)
      Rochin v. California (1952)
      Schmerber v. California (1966)
      Winston v. Lee (1985)
      Georgia v. Randolph (2006)
      Warden v. Hayden (1967)
      Welsh v. Wisconsin (1984)
      Arizona v. Hicks (1987)
      Carroll v. United States (1925)
      Illinois v. Caballes (2005)
      Hibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada (2004)
  Enforcing the Fourth Amendment: The Exclusionary Rule
      Weeks v. United States (1914)
      Wolf v. Colorado (1949)
      Hudson v. Michigan (2006)
  The Fifth Amendment and Self-Incrimination
      Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
      Spano v. New York (1959)
      Orozco v. Texas (1969)
      Berkemer v. McCarty (1984)
      Brewer v. Williams (1977)
      Rhode Island v. Innis (1980)
      Dickerson v. United States (2000)

11. Attorneys, Trials, and Punishments

  The Right to Counsel
      Betts v. Brady (1942)
      Argersinger v. Hamlin (1972)
      Scott v. Illinois (1979)
      Alabama v. Shelton (2002)
      Douglas v. California (1963)
      Ross v. Moffitt (1974)
      Halbert v. Michigan (2005)
      Rompilla v. Beard (2005)
  The Pretrial Period and the Right to Bail
      United States v. Salerno (1987)
  The Sixth Amendment and Fair Trials
      United States v. Marion (1971)
      Barker v. Wingo (1972)
      Swain v. Alabama (1965)
      J. E. B. v. Alabama ex rel. T. B. (1994)
      Williams v. Florida, (1970)
      Johnson v. Louisiana (1972)
      Apodaca v. Oregon, (1972)
  Trial Proceedings
      Illinois v. Allen (1970)
      Coy v. Iowa (1988)
      Maryland v. Craig (1990)
      Davis v. Washington (2006); Harmon v. Indiana (2006)
      Brady v. Maryland (1963)
      United States v. Agurs (1976)
      Sell v. United States (2003)
  Final Trial Stage: An Overview of Sentencing
      Blakely v. Washington (2004)
      United States v. Booker; United States v. Fanfan (2005)
  The Eighth Amendment
      Solem v. Helm (1983)
      Ewing v. California (2003)
      Furman v. Georgia (1972)
      McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)
      Kansas v. Marsh (2006)
      Roper v. Simmons (2005)
  Post-Trial Protections and the Double Jeopardy Clause
      Ashe v. Swenson (1970)
      Kansas v. Hendricks (1997)
  Post-Release Protections
      Connecticut Department of Public Safety v. Doe (2003)
  Attorneys, Trials and Punishments: The War on Terrorism
      Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)

Part IV. Civil Rights

12. Discrimination

  Racial Discrimination
      Scott v. Sandford (1857)
      Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
      Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938)
      McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950)
      Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
      Griffin v. Prince Edward County School Board (1964)
      Green v. School Board of New Kent County (1968)
      Board of Education of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell (1991)
      Freeman v. Pitts (1992)
      Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1;
                  Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (2007)
      Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
      United States v. Fordice (1992)
      Palmore v. Sidoti (1984)
      Washington v. Davis (1976)
  Sex Discrimination
      Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)
      Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan (1982)
      Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County (1981)
      Tuan Anh Nguyen v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2001)
  Other Forms of Discrimination
      Shapiro v. Thompson (1969)
      Saenz v. Roe (1999)
      Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (1966)
      Graham v. Richardson (1971)
      Foley v. Connelie (1978)
      Plyler v. Doe (1982)
      Gregory v. Ashcroft (1991)
  Remedying the Effects of Discrimination: Affirmative Action
      United Steelworkers of America v. Weber (1979)
      United States v. Paradise (1987)
      Johnson v. Transportation Agency of Santa Clara County, California (1987)
      Fullilove v. Klutznick. (1980)
      City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. (1989)
      Metro Broadcasting v. Federal Communications Commission (1990)

13. Voting and Representation

  Voting Rights
      Oregon v. Mitchell (1970)
      Louisiana v. United States (1965)
      United States v. Classic (1941)
      Smith v. Allwright (1944)
      Kramer v. Union Free School District (1969)
      Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (1966)
      Carrington v. Rash (1965)
      Dunn v. Blumstein (1972)

  Regulation of Election Campaigns
      Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
      McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003)
      Randall v. Sorrell (2006)
      Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. (2007)

  Political Representation
      Colegrove v. Green (1946)
      Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)
      Gray v. Sanders (1963)
      Avery v. Midland County (1968)
      Hadley v. Junior College District (1970)
      Karcher v. Daggett (1983)
      Mahan v. Howell (1973)
      United States Department of Commerce v. Montana (1992)
      Wisconsin v. City of New York (1996)
      Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960)
      Mobile v. Bolden (1980)
      Thornburg v. Gingles (1986)
      United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburgh v. Carey (1977)
      Shaw v. Reno (1993)
      Davis v. Bandemer (1986)
      LULAC v. Perry (2006)