Burger Court

A North Carolina district covering city and county was ordered to desegregate after years of resistance. Chief Justice Burger wrot...

The New York Times and Washington Post published a classified Defense Department history of the Vietnam War. The Nixon administrat...

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

Three consolidated cases produced five separate majority opinions. Justices Stewart and White found the penalty cruel and unusual ...

Wisconsin convicted Amish parents of violating compulsory school attendance to age sixteen. Chief Justice Burger, writing for the ...

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

Mass-mail advertiser Marvin Miller was convicted under California obscenity law for unsolicited brochures containing adult materia...

The Watergate special prosecutor subpoenaed tapes and documents after cover-up indictments, and Nixon claimed absolute executive p...

After Watergate, Congress imposed limits on contributions, spending, and public financing of elections. The Court, in a lengthy de...

Georgia rewrote its capital statute after Furman, requiring separate trials for guilt and sentencing, statutory aggravating circum...

Allan Bakke, rejected twice by the UC Davis medical school whose program reserved sixteen of one hundred seats for minority applic...

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

Congress allowed either house to veto executive actions implementing statutes, such as the suspension of Jagdish Chadha's deportat...

The EPA defined stationary sources under the Clean Air Act with a plantwide bubble concept that eased compliance. Justice Stevens,...

Pennsylvania and Rhode Island programs reimbursed or supplemented salaries of teachers of secular subjects in church-affiliated, m...

At James Batson's burglary trial in Louisville, the prosecutor used peremptory strikes to remove all four Black people from the ju...