The U.S. Supreme Court / edited by Thomas Tandy Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis, Thomas T. (Thomas Tandy), editor.

Series:

Magill's choice.

Magill's Choice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1576 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, California ; Hackensack, New Jersey : Salem Press, Inc., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the history and functioning of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Contents:

Volume 1. Abington School District v. Schempp - Fundamental rights

Volume 2. Furman v. Georgia - School integration and busing

Volume 3. Scott v. Sandford - Zoning, Appendixes, Indexes.

Vol. 1: Abington School District v. Schempp

Abortion

Adamson v. California

Adarand Constructors v. Peña

Admiralty and maritime law

Advisory opinions

Affirmative action

Age discrimination

Alito, Samuel

Allgeyer v. Louisiana

Americans with Disabilities Act

Antitrust law

Appellate jurisdiction

Assembly and association, freedom of

Atkins v. Virginia

Automobile searches

Bad tendency test

Bail

Baker v. Carr

Baldwin, Henry

Bankruptcy law

Barbour, Philip P.

Barnes v. Glen Theatre

Barron v. Baltimore

Batson v. Kentucky

Bill of attainder

Bill of Rights

Birth control and contraception

Black, Hugo L.

Blackmun, Harry A.

Blair, John, Jr.

Blatchford, Samuel

Boerne v. Flores

Bolling v. Sharpe

Boys Scouts of America v. Dale

Bradley, Joseph P.

Bradwell v. Illinois

Brandeis, Louis D.

Brandenburg v. Ohio

Brennan, William J., Jr.

Brewer, David J.

Breyer, Stephen G.

Briefs

Brown, Henry B.

Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Mississippi

Buck v. Bell

Burger, Warren E.

Burton, Harold H.

Bush v. Gore

Butler, Pierce

Byrnes, James F.

Calder v. Bull

Campbell, John A.

Capital punishment

Capitalism

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Carolene Products Co., United States v.

Catron, John

Censorship

Certiorari, writ of

Chase, Salmon P.

Chase, Samuel

Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Co. v. Chicago

Chief justice

Chimel v. California

Chinese Exclusion Cases

Chisholm v. Georgia

Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah

Circuit riding

Citizenship

Civil law

Civil Rights Cases

Civil Rights movement

Civil War

Clark, Tom C.

Clarke, John H.

Clerks of the justices

Clifford, Nathan

Clinton v. City of New York

Clinton v. Jones

Cold War

Comity clause

Commerce, regulation of

Common law

Conference of the justices

Constitutional interpretation

Constitutional law

Contract, freedom of

Contracts clause

Counsel, right to

Court-packing plan

Cruikshank, United States v.

Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health

Curtis, Benjamin R.

Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., United States v.

Cushing, William

Daniel, Peter V.

Darby Lumber Co., United States v.

Davis, David

Day, William R.

Debs, In re

DeJonge v. Oregon

Delegation of powers

Die, right to

Dissents

Diversity jurisdiction

Double jeopardy

Douglas, William O.

Due process, procedural

Due process, substantive

Duncan v. Louisiana

Duvall, Gabriel

Eighth Amendment

Elastic clause

Eleventh Amendment

Ellsworth, Oliver

Employment discrimination

Employment Division, Department of Human Resources v. Smith

Engel v. Vitale

Environmental law

Epperson v. Arkansas

Equal protection clause

Espionage acts

Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township

Evolution and creationism

Exclusionary rule

Executive agreements

Executive privilege

Federalism

Ferguson v. City of Charleston

Field, Stephen J.

Fifteenth Amendment

Fifth Amendment

First Amendment

Flag desecration

Florida v. Bostick

Fortas, Abe

Fourth Amendment

Frankfurter, Felix

Full faith and credit

Fuller, Melville W.

Fundamental rights

Vol. 2: Furman v. Georgia

Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority

Gay and lesbian rights

Gender issues

General welfare clause

Gerrymandering

Gibbons v. Ogden

Gideon v. Wainwright

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader

Gitlow v. New York

Goldberg, Arthur J.

Grandfather clause

Gratz v. Bollinger

Gray, Horace

Gregg v. Georgia

Grier, Robert C.

Griggs v. Duke Power Co.

Griswold v. Connecticut

Guarantee clause

Habeas corpus

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

Hammer v. Dagenhart

Harlan, John M., II

Harlan, John Marshall

hate speech

Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Housing discrimination

Housing of the Court

Hudson v. Michigan

Hughes, Charles Evans

Hunt, Ward

Hustler Magazine v. Falwell

Illegitimacy

Immigration law

Income tax

Incorporation doctrine

Iredell, James

Jackson, Howell E.

Jackson, Robert H.

Japanese American relocation

Jay, John

Johnson, Thomas

Johnson, William

Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. McIntosh

Judicial activism

Judicial review

Judicial scrutiny

Judicial self-restraint

Judiciary Act of 1789

Jury, trial by

Katz v. United States

Kelo v. City of New London

Kennedy, Anthony M.

Korematsu v. United States

Kyllo v. United States

Lamar, Joseph R.

Lamar, Lucius Q.C.

Lawrence v. Texas

Lee v. Weisman

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Libel

Livingston, Brockholst

Lochner v. New York

Lopez, United States v.

Loving v. Virginia

Loyalty oaths

Lurton, Horace H.

McCleskey v. Kemp

McConnell v. Federal Election Commission

McCulloch v. Maryland

McKenna, Joseph

McKinley, John

McLean, John

McReynolds, James C.

Mapp v. Ohio

Marbury v. Madison

Marshall, John

Marshall, Thurgood

Matthews, Stanley

Meyer v. Nebraska

Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz

Military and the Court

Miller, Samuel F.

Milligan, Ex parte

Minton, Sherman

Miranda rights

Moody, William H.

Moore, Alfred

Moore v. City of East Cleveland

Munn v. Illinois

Murphy, Frank

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama

National security

National Treasury Employees Union v. Van Raab

Native American sovereignty

Native American treaties

Natural law

Near v. Minnesota

Nelson, Samuel

New Deal

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

New York Times Co. v. United States

New York v. Ferber

Ninth Amendment

Nominations to the Court

Obscenity and pornography

O'Connor, Sandra Day

Opinions, writing of

Oral argument

Palko v. Connecticut

Paterson, William

Payne v. Tennessee

Peckham, Rufus W.

Peonage

Pierce v. Society of Sisters

Pitney, Mahlon

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey

Plea bargaining

Plessy v. Ferguson

Police powers

Political questions

Poll taxes

Powell, Lewis F., Jr.

Presidential powers

Printz v. United States

Privacy, right to

Privileges and immunities

Progressivism

Public forum doctrine

Quirin, Ex parte

Race and discrimination

Raich v. Gonzales

Reconstruction

Reed, Stanley F.

Reed v. Reed

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Rehnquist, William H.

Religion, establishment of

Religion, freedom of

Reporting of opinions

Representation, fairness of

Resignation and retirement

Restrictive covenants

Review, process of

Reynolds v. Sims

Reynolds v. United States

Roberts, John

Roberts, Owen J.

Rochin v. California

Roe v. Wade

Rompilla v. Beard

Roper v. Simmons

Roth v. United States/Alberts v. California

Rule of reason

Rules of the Court

Rutledge, John

Rutledge, Wiley B., Jr.

Salaries of justices

San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez

Sanford, Edward T.

Scalia, Antonin

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States

Schenck v. United States

School integration and busing

Vol. 2: Scott v. Sandford

Search warrant requirement

Second Amendment

Sedition Act of 1798

Seditious libel

Segregation, de facto

Segregation, de jure

Self-incrimination, immunity against

Senate Judiciary Committee

Separation of powers

Seriatim opinions

Shelley v. Kraemer

Sherbert v. Verner

Shipp, United States v.

Shiras, George, Jr.

Sixth Amendment

Slaughterhouse Cases

Slavery

Smith Act

Smith v. Allwright

Solicitor general

Souter, David H.

Speech and press, freedom of

Standing

State action

States' rights and state sovereignty

Statutory interpretation

Stevens, John Paul

Stewart, Potter

Stone, Harlan Fiske

Story, Joseph

Strong, William

Sunday closing laws

Sutherland, George

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

Swayne, Noah H.

Symbolic speech

Taft, William H.

Takings clause

Taney, Roger Brooke

Tennessee v. Garner

Tenth Amendment

Terry v. Ohio

Texas v. Johnson

Thirteenth Amendment

Thomas, Clarence

Thomas-Hill hearings

Thompson, Smith

Time, place, and manner regulations

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

Todd, Thomas

Travel, right to

Treaties

Trimble, Robert

Van Devanter, Willis

Vietnam War

Vinson, Fred M.

Virginia, United States v.

Virginia v. Black

Waite, Morrison R.

Wallace v. Jaffree

War and civil liberties

War powers

Warren, Earl

Washington, Bushrod

Washington v. Glucksberg

Wayne, James M.

Webster v. Reproductive Health Services

West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish

White, Byron R.

White, Edward D.

Whittaker, Charles E.

Wilson, James

Wisconsin v. Mitchell

Wisconsin v. Yoder

Witnesses, confrontation of

Woodbury, Levi

Woods, William B.

Worcester v. Georgia

Workload

World War II

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer

Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

Zoning

Time line of the U.S. Supreme Court

Glossary

Bibliography

Supreme Court Justices

Justices ranked by years of service

Notable Supreme Court rulings

The Constitution of the United States

Categorized list of entries

Court case index

Photo index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781587654084

1587654083