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Landmark Decisions: Discrimination Based on Race and Ethnicity
(First published Mar 2020)Authors:
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- 1.1: Dred Scott v. Sandford
- 1.2: Strauder v. West Virginia
- 1.3: The Civil Rights Cases
- 1.4: Plessy v. Ferguson
- 1.5: New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co.
- 1.6: Smith v. Allwright
- 1.7: Korematsu v. United States
- 1.8: Morgan v. Virginia
- 1.9: Shelley v. Kraemer
- 1.10: Henderson v. United States
- 1.11: Hernandez v. Texas
- 1.12: Brown v. Board of Education
- 1.13: Bolling v. Sharpe
- 1.14: Keys v. Carolina Coach Co.
- 1.15: Browder v. Gayle
- 1.16: Gomillion v. Lightfoot
- 1.17: Boynton v. Virginia
- 1.18: Garner v. Louisiana
- 1.19: Loving v. Virginia
- 1.20: Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.
- 1.21: Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
- 1.22: Gates v. Collier
- 1.23: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
- 1.24: Batson v. Kentucky
- 1.25: Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena
- 1.26: Grutter v. Bollinger
- 1.27: Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action
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Landmark Decisions: Discrimination Based on Sex
(First published Apr 2020)Authors:
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- 2.1: Muller v. Oregon
- 2.2: Glasser v. United States
- 2.3: Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp.
- 2.4: Reed v. Reed
- 2.5: Frontiero v. Richardson
- 2.6: Taylor v. Louisiana
- 2.7: Craig v. Boren
- 2.8: Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan
- 2.9: Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins
- 2.10: JEB v. Alabama ex rel. TB
- 2.11: United States v. Virginia
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Landmark Decisions: Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
(First published Nov 2019)Authors:
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- 3.1: One, Inc., v. Olesen
- 3.2: Bowers v. Hardwick
- 3.3: Romer v. Evans
- 3.4: Lawrence v. Texas
- 3.5: Goodridge v. Department of Public Health
- 3.6: United States v. Windsor
- 3.7: Smithkline Beecham Corp. v. Abbott Laboratories
- 3.8: Obergefell v. Hodges
- 3.9: Bostock v. Clayton County, R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda
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Landmark Decisions: Birth Control and Abortion
(First published Apr 2020)Authors:
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Landmark Decisions: End of Life
(First published Apr 2020)Authors:
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Landmark Decisions: Power of Congress to Enforce Civil Rights
(First published Apr 2020)Authors:
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Landmark Decisions: Fourth Amendment Rights
(First published Apr 2020)Authors:
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- 7.1: Mapp v. Ohio
- 7.2: Schmerber v. California
- 7.3: Katz v. United States
- 7.4: Terry v. Ohio
- 7.5: Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics
- 7.6: United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- 7.7: Illinois v. Gates
- 7.8: New Jersey v. T. L. O.
- 7.9: Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton
- 7.10: Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls
- 7.11: Georgia v. Randolph
- 7.12: In Re: Directives
- 7.13: United States v. Jones
- 7.14: Riley v. California
- 7.15: Carpenters v. United States
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Landmark Decisions: Right to an Attorney
(First published Mar 2020)Authors:
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Landmark Decisions: Right to Remain Silent
(First published Jun 2020)Authors:
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Landmark Decisions: Competence
(First published Jul 2020)Authors:
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Landmark Decisions: Detainment of terrorism suspects
(First published Jul 2020)Authors:
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Landmark Decisions: Capital punishment
(First published Jul 2020)Authors:
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- 12.1: Furman v. Georgia
- 12.2: Gregg v. Georgia
- 12.3: Proffitt v. Florida
- 12.4: Jurek v. Texas
- 12.5: Woodson v. North Carolina
- 12.6: Roberts v. Louisiana
- 12.7: Coker v. Georgia
- 12.8: Enmund v. Florida
- 12.9: Ford v. Wainwright
- 12.10: Tison v. Arizona
- 12.11: McCleskey v. Kemp
- 12.12: Breard v. Greene
- 12.13: Atkins v. Virginia
- 12.14: Roper v. Simmons
- 12.15: Baze v. Rees
- 12.16: Kennedy v. Louisiana
- 12.17: Glossip v. Gross
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Landmark Decisions: Federalism
(First published Jun 2020)Authors:
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- 13.1: Chisholm v. Georgia
- 13.2: Hylton v. United States
- 13.3: Ware v. Hylton
- 13.4: Marbury v. Madison
- 13.5: Fletcher v. Peck
- 13.6: Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
- 13.7: M'Culloch v. Maryland
- 13.8: Cohens v. Virginia
- 13.9: Gibbons v. Ogden
- 13.10: Barron v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
- 13.11: Aaron B. Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia
- 13.12: Ableman v. Booth
- 13.13: Texas v. White
- 13.14: Hans v. Louisiana
- 13.15: Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co.
- 13.16: Swift & Co. v. United States
- 13.17: Hunter v. City of Pittsburgh
- 13.18: Ex parte Young
- 13.19: Missouri v. Holland
- 13.20: United States v. Wheeler
- 13.21: J.W. Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States
- 13.22: United States v. Butler
- 13.23: National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
- 13.24: Steward Machine Co. v. Davis
- 13.25: United States v. Darby
- 13.26: Wickard v. Filburn
- 13.27: Cooper v. Aaron
- 13.28: Oregon v. Mitchell
- 13.29: Heath v. Alabama
- 13.30: Dakota v. Dole
- 13.31: United States v. Lopez
- 13.32: U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton
- 13.33: Printz v. United States
- 13.34: Clinton v. City of New York
- 13.35: United States v. Morrison
- 13.36: Gonzales v. Raich
- 13.37: Arizona v. United States
- 13.38: National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
- 13.39: Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association
- 13.40: Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill
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Landmark Decisions: Federal Indian law
(First published Jul 2020)Authors:
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- 14.1: Johnson & Graham’s Lessee v. McIntosh
- 14.2: Worcester v. Georgia
- 14.3: Ex parte Crow Dog
- 14.4: Elk v. Wilkins
- 14.5: United States v. Kagama
- 14.6: Talton v. Mayes
- 14.7: Wolf v. Hitchcock
- 14.8: Menominee Tribe of Indians v. United States
- 14.9: Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
- 14.10: United States v. Wheeler
- 14.11: Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez
- 14.12: Solem v. Bartlett
- 14.13: Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Ass’n
- 14.14: United States v. Lara
- 14.15: Herrera v. Wyoming
- 14.16: McGirt v. Oklahoma
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Landmark Decisions: Freedom of Speech and of the Press
(First published Mar 2020)Authors:
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- 15.1: Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio
- 15.2: Schenck v. United States
- 15.3: Gitlow v. New York
- 15.4: Stromberg v. California
- 15.5: Near v. Minnesota ex rel. Olson
- 15.6: New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co.
- 15.7: Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser
- 15.8: Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
- 15.9: Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson
- 15.10: Roth v. United States
- 15.11: One, Inc., v. Olesen
- 15.12: New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
- 15.13: Dombrowski v. Pfister
- 15.14: Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts
- 15.15: United States v. O'Brien
- 15.16: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
- 15.17: Brandenburg v. Ohio
- 15.18: Cohen v. California
- 15.19: New York Times Co. v. United States
- 15.20: Branzburg v. Hayes
- 15.21: Miller v. California
- 15.22: Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
- 15.23: Buckley v. Valeo
- 15.24: Federal Communications Commn. v. Pacifica Foundation
- 15.25: National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Co.
- 15.26: New York v. Ferber
- 15.27: Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
- 15.28: Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
- 15.29: Texas v. Johnson
- 15.30: Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc.
- 15.31: Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union
- 15.32: Kaelin v. Globe Communications
- 15.33: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
- 15.34: Snyder v. Phelps
- 15.35: Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass'n
- 15.36: McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission
- 15.37: Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky
- 15.38: Janus v. AFSCME
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Landmark Decisions: Freedom of Religion
(First published Jun 2020)Authors:
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- 16.1: Reynolds v. United States
- 16.2: Davis v. Beason
- 16.3: Cantwell v. Connecticut
- 16.4: Minersville School District v. Gobitis
- 16.5: Murdock v. Pennsylvania
- 16.6: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
- 16.7: Everson v. Board of Education
- 16.8: Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education
- 16.9: Engel v. Vitale
- 16.10: Abington School District v. Schempp
- 16.11: Flast v. Cohen
- 16.12: Epperson v. Arkansas
- 16.13: Lemon v. Kurtzman
- 16.14: Wisconsin v. Yoder
- 16.15: Marsh v. Chambers
- 16.16: Edwards v. Aguillard
- 16.17: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Amos
- 16.18: Employment Division v. Smith
- 16.19: Lee v. Weisman
- 16.20: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah
- 16.21: Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of Univ. of Virginia
- 16.22: Agostini v. Felton
- 16.23: Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe
- 16.24: Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
- 16.25: Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
- 16.26: Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- 16.27: Town of Greece v. Galloway
- 16.28: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
- 16.29: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
- 16.30: American Legion v. American Humanist Association
- 16.31: Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
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Landmark Decisions: Freedom of association
(First published Jul 2020)Authors:
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Landmark Decisions: Freedom of petition
(First published Jul 2020)Authors:
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Landmark Decisions: Second Amendment rights
(First published Jul 2020)Authors:
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Landmark Decisions: Third Amendment rights
(First published Jul 2020)Authors:
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Landmark Decisions: Executive power (Domestic)
(First published Jul 2020)Authors:
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Landmark Decisions: Executive power (Foreign)
(First published Jul 2020)Authors:
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