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Landmark US Supreme Court Decisions

Created: Saturday, February 23, 2008 | Total records: 219
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id	Plaintiff	v	Defendant	Vol.	Series	Page	Altern.	Year	Synopsis
176	Griswold	v.	Connecticut	381	U.S.	479		1965	Declared right to privacy and association, and struck down state statute forbidding person from delivering or receiving contraceptive information.
177	U.S.	v.	Guest	383	U.S.	745		1966	(concurring opinions). Although Sec. 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment is judicially enforceable only against "state action", Congress is not so limited under its enforcement authorization of Sec. 5.
178	Burns	v.	Richardson	384	U.S.	73		1966	Election districts in each State must be so structured that each elected representative should represent substantially equal populations.
179	Miranda	v.	Arizona	384	U.S.	436		1966	Evidence provided by suspect in custody may not be admitted if the accused has not been warned of his right to remain silent and for assistance of counsel during interrogation.
180	Afroyim	v.	Rusk	387	U.S.	253		1967	Overruled the 1958 Perez v. Brownell decision permitting expatriation for voting in a foreign election and announced a constitutional rule against all but purely voluntary renunciation of United States citizenship for born citizens.
181	Camara	v.	Municipal Court	387	U.S.	523		1967	Building inspector must obtain warrant to inspect building if owner does not consent to it.
182	U.S.	v.	Robel	389	U.S.	258		1967	Voided a law making it illegal for any member of a "communist-action organization" to work in a defense facility. The second time in history a congressional statute struck down as an infringement of the First Amendment.
183	Bloom	v.	Illinois	391	U.S.	194		1968	When the punishment in a criminal contempt case in a court, federal or state, is more than the sentence for a petty offense, defined as six months or more, a defendant is entitled to trial by jury.
184	Maryland	v.	Wirtz	392	U.S.	183		1968	Upheld "enterprise concept" of an entire enterprise being subject to Fair Labor Standard Act if any of its activities affected interstate commerce.
185	Powell	v.	McCormack	395	U.S.	486		1969	The protection of the speech and debate clause is not limited to words spoken in debate. "Committee reports, resolutions, and the act of voting are equally covered, as are things generally done in a session of the House by one of its members in relation to the business before it."
186	Williams	v.	Florida	399	U.S.	78		1970	Sustained state jury of less than twelve persons. Historic standard had been that it must be twelve.
187	Bivens	v.	Six Unknown Named Agents of the Bureau of Narcotics	403	U.S.	388		1971	Federal agents may be sued and held personally liable for abuses of civil rights.
188	New York Times Co.	v.	U.S.	403	U.S.	713		1971	A majority of the Court agreed that in appropriate circumstances the First Amendment would not preclude a prior restraint of publication of information that might result in a sufficient degree of harm to the national interest, although a different majority concurred in denying the Governments request for an injunction in that case.
189	Apodaca	v.	Oregon	406	U.S.	404		1972	Sustained state jury verdict by less than unanimous vote. Historic standard had been that the jury must be unanimous.
190	Roe	v.	Wade	410	U.S.	113		1973	Defined personhood as beginning at birth, held foetus is not a "person" with rights against right of woman to have abortion.
191	Davis	v.	U.S.	411	U.S.	233		1973	Sustained congressional authorization of the Supreme Court to promulgate rules of civil and criminal procedure and of evidence in which it directed that such rules supersede previously enacted statutes with which they conflicted.
192	Colgrove	v.	Battin	413	U.S.	149		1973	Civil juries composed of six persons were permissible under the Seventh Amendment and congressional enactments. Historic standard had been twelve.
193	Schlesinger	v.	Reservists Com. to Stop the War	418	U.S.	208		1974	Persons do not have standing to sue to enforce a constitutional provision when all they can show or claim is that they have an interest or have suffered an injury that is shared by all members of the public.
194	U.S.	v.	Nixon	418	U.S.	683		1974	Held the President subject to subpoena to produce evidence for use in a criminal case.
195	Regional Rail Reorganization Act Cases			419	U.S.	102		1974	Case not justiciable until it is "ripe" for decision, on constitutional and prudential grounds.
196	Barrett	v.	U.S.	423	U.S.	212		1976	Upheld a conviction for receipt of a firearm upon a mere showing that the gun had sometime previously traveled in interstate commerce.
197	Buckley	v.	Valeo	424	U.S.	1		1976	Campaign spending may not be limited, but contributions may be, and the identity of contributors may be required to be disclosed, and anonymous contributors prohibited.
198	Hunt	v.	Washington State Apple Advertising Comm.	432	U.S.	333		1977	An organization or association "has standing to bring suit on behalf of its members when: (a) its members would otherwise have standing to sue in their own right; (b) the interests it seeks to protect are germane to the organizations purpose; and (c) neither the claim asserted, nor the relief requested, requires the participation of individual members in the lawsuit."
199	Lewis	v.	U.S.	445	U.S.	55		1980	Person who has been convicted of a crime in a state court may be convicted of a federal crime for possession of firearms.
200	Hodel	v.	Indiana	452	U.S.	314		1981	“A court may invalidate legislation enacted under the Commerce Clause only if it is clear that there is no rational basis for a congressional finding that the regulated activity affects interstate commerce, or that there is no reasonable connection between the regulatory means selected and the asserted ends."