303 Creative LLC v. Elenis
Source: 600 U.S. 570 (2023), https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/21-476. JUSTICE GORSUCH delivered the opinion of the Court. Like many states, Colorado has a law forbidding businesses from engaging in discrimination when they sell […]
Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.
Source: 594 U. S. (2021), https://www.oyez.org/cases/2020/20-255. JUSTICE BREYER delivered the opinion of the Court. A public high school student used, and transmitted to her Snapchat friends, vulgar language and gestures […]
Schenck v. United States
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School. Available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/249/47. MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court. This is an indictment […]
Alice Paul in Prison
Doris Stevens, “Alice Paul in Prison,” in Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 213–226. Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=R-GGAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA210&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false. MR. HART (Prosecuting Attorney for the Government): Sergeant Lee, were […]
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
Source: 597 U.S. ___ (2022), https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/597us1r58_gebh.pdf Justice ALITO1 delivered the opinion of the Court. Abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views. Some believe fervently […]
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
Source: 567 U.S. 519 (2012), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/11-393. Chief Justice ROBERTS announced the judgment of the Court …. In 2010, Congress enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Act aims […]
Printz v. United States
Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court: The question presented in these cases is whether certain interim provisions of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act commanding state and local […]
Gregory v. Ashcroft
Justice O’CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. Article V, 26 of the Missouri Constitution provides that “[a]ll judges other than municipal judges shall retire at the age of seventy […]
South Dakota v. Dole
Source: 483 U.S. 203, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/483/203. Chief Justice REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner South Dakota permits persons 19 years of age or older to purchase beer containing up […]
South Carolina v. Katzenbach
Source: 398 U.S. 301 (1966), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/383/301. Mr. Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. … South Carolina has filed a bill of complaint, seeking a declaration that selected […]