Rights, Liberties, and Justice, 6th Edition
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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)
Summers v. Earth Island Institute (2009)
Frothingham v. Mellon (1923)
Flast v. Cohen (1968)
Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc.
(2007)
Raines v. Byrd (1997)
Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co., Inc. (2009)
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
[There are no Part II Flashcards]
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)
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)
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)
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)
Pleasant Grove City v. Summum (2009)
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)
Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC (1969)
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 First Amendment and the New Media
The First Amendment and the New Media
Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union I (2002)
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002)
9. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
United States v. Miller (1939)
10. 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. 11. 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)
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)
Enforcing the Fourth Amendment: The Exclusionary Rule
Weeks v. United States (1914)
Wolf v. Colorado (1949)
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)
Montejo v. Louisiana (2009)
12. 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)
Indiana v. Edwards (2008)
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)
Vermont v. Brillon (2009)
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)
Melendez-Dias v. Massachusetts (2009)
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)
Kimbrough v. United States (2007)
Gall v. United States (2007)
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)
Baze v. Rees (2008)
Kennedy v. Louisiana (2008)
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
Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
Bolling v. Sharpe (1954)
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
13. 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)
Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
United States v. Fordice (1992)
Palmore v. Sidoti (1984)
Washington v. Davis (1976)
Sex Discrimination
Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)
Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)
Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan (1982)
Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County (1981)
Rostker v. Goldberg (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)
Ricci v. DeStefano (2009)
14. 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)
Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder (2009)
Regulation of Election Campaigns
Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
Randall v. Sorrell (2006)
Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. (2007)
Political Representation
Colegrove v. Green (1946)
Baker v. Carr (1962)
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)
