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Illustrated great decisions of the Supreme Court /

This book provides information about key recent and historical cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Now significantly updated, this new edition includes all the new major cases handed down by the Court since the first edition was published in 2000. The new entries include many high-profile cases tha...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mauro, Tony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, ©2006.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cases arranged alphabetically
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Affirmative action. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) ; Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
  • Capital punishment. Furman v. Georgia (1972) ; Thompson v. Oklahoma (1988) ; Roper v. Simmons (2005)
  • Civil rights (see also Racial discrimination). Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) ; Buck v. Bell (1927) ; Goldberg v. Kelly (1970) ; Plyler v. Doe (1982) ; PGA Tour v. Martin (2001)
  • Commerce power. Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) ; Muller v. Oregon (1908) ; Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States (1911) ; Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935) ; National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937) ; Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964) ; United States v. Lopez (1995) ; Gonzales v. Raich (2005)
  • Copyright. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios v. Grokster (2005)
  • Environmental law. Sierra Club v. Morton (1972)
  • Establishment of religion. School District of Abington Township v. Schempp (1963) ; Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) ; Edwards v. Aguillard (1987) ; Lee v. Weisman (1992) ; Agostini v. Felton (1997) ; Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000) ; Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001) ; Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002) ; Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004) ; Ten Commandment Cases (2005)
  • Free exercise of religion. Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940) ; Bob Jones University v. United States (1983) ; City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
  • Freedom of association. NAACP v. Button (1963) ; Roberts v. United States Jaycees (1984)
  • Freedom of the press. Near v. Minnesota (1931) ; New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) ; Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission (1969) ; New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) ; Branzburg v. Hayes (1972) ; Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia (1980) ; Chandler v. Florida (1981) ; Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
  • Freedom of speech. Schenck v. United States (1919) ; Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942) ; West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) ; Dennis v. United States (1951) ; Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) ; Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) ; Miller v. California (1973) ; Buckley v. Valeo (1976) ; Texas v. Johnson (1989) ; Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997) ; Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (2002) ; McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003). Gay rights. Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) ; Romer v. Evans (1996) ; Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) ; Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
  • Habeas Corpus. Ex parte Milligan (1866)
  • Powers of the President. United States v. Nixon (1974) ; Clinton v. Jones (1997)
  • Privacy. Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925) ; Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) ; Roe v. Wade (1973) ; Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990)
  • Property rights. Proprietors of Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of Warren Bridge (1837) ; Lochner v. New York (1905) ; Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. (1926) ; Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
  • Racial discrimination. United States v. The Schooner Amistad (1841) ; Scott v. Sandford (1857) ; Civil Rights Cases (1883) ; Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886) ; Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) ; Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) ; Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) ; Loving v. Virginia (1967) ; Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) ; Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971)
  • Right to counsel. Powell v. Alabama (1932) ; Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) ; Miranda v. Arizona (1966) ; In re Gault (1967)
  • Right to trial by jury. Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000)
  • Search and seizure. Mapp v. Ohio (1961) ; Katz v. United States (1967) ; Terry v. Ohio (1968) ; New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985) ; Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton (1995) ; Kyllo v. United States (2001)
  • Separation of powers. Marbury v. Madison (1803) ; McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) ; Cherokee Cases (1831 and 1832) ; Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935) ; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952) ; Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983)
  • Sex discrimination. Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986) ; United States v. Virginia (1996) ; Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education (1999)
  • Voting rights. Smith v. Allwright (1944) ; Baker v. Carr (1962) ; Oregon v. Mitchell (1970) ; Shaw v. Reno (1993) ; Bush v. Gore (2000)
  • War powers. Korematsu v. United States (1944) ; Rosenberg v. United States (1953) ; Detainee Cases (2004)
  • Reference materials. Constitution of the United States ; The Justices ; Succession chart of Supreme Court seats ; Thumbnail sketch of the Supreme Court's history ; Online sources of decisions ; How to read a court citation ; Glossary of common legal terms.