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Landmark decisions of the United States Supreme Court
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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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- Creator
- Maureen Harrison & Steve Gilbert, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Beverly Hills, Calif. : Excellent Books, c1991-
- Series
- Physical Details
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- volumes ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780962801402, 0962801402, 9780962801426, 0962801429, 9780962801419, 0962801410, 9780962801471, 096280147X, 9780962801488, 0962801488
- OCLC
- ocm23015315
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 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)