Due Process

Oregon's Compulsory Education Act, backed by the Ku Klux Klan and anti-Catholic sentiment, would have closed private and parochial...

Virginia sterilized Carrie Buck, a young woman labeled feebleminded, under a eugenics statute. Her lawyer, colluding with the stat...

Connecticut law criminalized the use of contraceptives, and Planned Parenthood executive Estelle Griswold was convicted for counse...

Fifteen-year-old Gerald Gault was committed to a state institution until twenty-one for making a lewd phone call, without counsel,...

An Idaho law mandated that males be preferred over females when equally related persons sought appointment to administer an estate...

Jane Roe challenged a Texas law criminalizing abortion except to save the mother's life. Justice Blackmun, for a 7-2 majority, hel...

Texas authorized school districts to exclude undocumented children or charge them tuition. The Court held that even though undocum...

Pennsylvania imposed waiting periods, informed consent, parental consent, and spousal notification requirements on abortion. In a ...

Colorado voters adopted Amendment 2, repealing and forbidding any state or local protections against discrimination based on sexua...

Florida's manual recount, ordered by the state supreme court, proceeded under standards that varied from county to county. A per c...

Houston police entered John Lawrence's apartment on a false weapons report and found him with another man, leading to conviction u...

Washington DC banned handgun possession and required trigger locks on lawfully owned guns. Dick Heller, a security guard, challeng...

Chicago's handgun ban mirrored the DC law struck in Heller. Justice Alito, for a 5-4 majority, held that the right to keep and bea...

Same-sex couples from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee challenged marriage bans after United States v. Windsor struck the f...

Mississippi banned most abortions after fifteen weeks, defending the law by attacking the viability rule. Justice Alito, for a maj...

New York required proper cause for a concealed carry license. Justice Thomas, for a 6-3 majority, held that the Second Amendment e...