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Landmark decisions of the United States Supreme Court / Maureen Harrison & Steve Gilbert, editors.

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Presents for each case "carefully edited versions of the official texts issued by the Supreme Court in United States reports."

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Corporate Author: United States. Supreme Court
Other Authors: Harrison, Maureen, Gilbert, Steve
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Excellent Books, ©1991-<c2011>
Series:Landmark decisions series.
Subjects:
Constitutional law > United States > Cases.
United States > Constitutional law > Cases.
Constitutional law.
United States.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. School desegregation : Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
  • Obscenity : Roth v. United States (1957)
  • School prayer : Engel v. Vitale (1962)
  • Fair trials : Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
  • Sexual privacy : Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
  • Censorship : New York Times vs. United States (1971)
  • Abortion : Roe v. Wade (1973)
  • Affirmative action : University of California v. Bakke (1978)
  • Book banning : Board of Education v. Pico (1982)
  • Flag burning : Texas v. Johnson (1989)
  • The U.S. Constitution : The Preamble (1789)
  • v. 2. Slavery : Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
  • Women's suffrage : Minor v. Happersett (1875) ; United States v. Anthony (1873)
  • Japanese American concentration camps : Korematsu v. United States (1944)
  • Bible reading in the public schools : Abington School District v. Shempp (1963)
  • Book banned in Boston : "Fanny Hill" v. Massachusetts (1966)
  • Rights of the accused : Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
  • Death penalty : Furman v. Georgia (1972)
  • Homosexuality : Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
  • Offensive speech : Hustler v. Falwell (1988)
  • Right to die : Cruzan v. Missouri (1990)
  • v. 3. Executive privilege : Marbury v. Madison (1803) ; United States v. Nixon (1974)
  • Clear and present danger : Schenck v. United States (1919)
  • Forced sterilization : Buck v. Bell (1927)
  • Mob justice : Scottsboro Boys v. Alabama (1932)
  • Pledge of allegiance : Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940) ; Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
  • Illegal search & seizure : Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
  • Interracial marriage : Loving v. Virginia (1967)
  • Monkey trials : Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)
  • Sexual harassment : Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986)
  • Church & state : Allegheny County v. ACLU (1989)
  • v. 4. Federal supremacy : McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
  • The trail of tears : The Cherokees v. Georgia (1831) ; Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
  • Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus : In the matter of Milligan (1866)
  • Separate but equal : Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) ; Dissenting in Plessy
  • Trust busting : Standard Oil v. United States (1911)
  • Child labor : Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
  • The atomic spies : The Rosenbergs v. United States (1953); Dissenting in The Rosenberts
  • Libel : The New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
  • Conscientious objection : Muhammad Ali v. United States (1971)
  • Hate crimes : R.A. v. St. Paul (1992) ; Wisconsin v. Mitchell (1993)
  • v. 5. The slave ship cases: The Antelope (1825); The Amistad (1840)
  • Religious liberty: Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
  • Treason: Cramer v. United States (1945)
  • Military justice: Toth v. Quarles (1955)
  • Marijuana: Leary v. United States (1969)
  • Birth control: Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972)
  • Baseball: Flood v. Kuhn (1972)
  • Equal pay for equal work: Corning v. Brennan (1974)
  • Child abuse: DeShaney v. Winnebago (1989)
  • The "Son of Sam" law: Simon & Schuster v. New York Crime Victims Board (1991)
  • U.S. Constitution.
  • v. 6. The Aaron Burr conspiracy : Bollman-Swartwout Case (1807)
  • The Dartmouth College Case : Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
  • Women's work : Muller v. Oregon (1908)
  • The "Sick Chicken" Case : Schecter Poultry v. United States (1935)
  • The Right to keep and bear arms : United States v. Jack Miller (1939)
  • The Law of war : In The Matter of General Tomoyuki Yamashita (1946)
  • Un-American activities : John T. Watkins v. United States (1957)
  • One person, one vote : Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
  • The Constitution and the right to die : Washington State v. Glucksberg
  • New York State v. Quill (1997); The Presidential line item veto : President William J. Clinton v. The City of New York (1998)
  • v. 7. Violence against women : United States v. Morrison (2000)
  • Partial birth abortions : Stenberg v. Carhart (2000)
  • The gay scout master : Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)
  • The contested presidential election : Bush v. Gore (2000)
  • Executing the mentally retarded : Atkins v. Virginia (2002)
  • Internet pornography : United States v. American Library Association (2003)
  • Affirmative action : Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
  • Sodomy : Lawrence & Garner v. Texas (2003)
  • The al Qaeda cases : Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)
  • Rumsfeld v. Padilla (2004)
  • Medical marijuana : Gonzales v. Raich (2005)
  • Private property rights : Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
  • The ten commandments cases : Van Orden v. Perry (2005)
  • McCreary County v. ACLU (2005)
  • v. 8 Physician-assisted suicide : Gonzales v. Oregon (2006)
  • Execution by lethal injection : Hill v. McDonough (2006)
  • The Al Queda detainee : Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)
  • Partial birth abortion : Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood (2007)
  • Crack cocaine : Kimbrough v. United States (2007)
  • Age discrimination : Gross v. FBL (2009)
  • Reverse discrimination : Ricci v. DeStefano (2009)
  • Campaign finance reform : Citizens United v. FEC (2010)
  • Sexually dangerous persons : U.S. v. Comstock (2010)
  • The right to keep and bear arms : McDonald v. Chicago (2010)

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