Rehnquist Court

Gregory Lee Johnson burned a flag outside the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas and was convicted under a Texas law pr...

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...

Alfonzo Lopez carried a handgun into a San Antonio high school and was charged under a federal law barring guns near schools. Chie...

Congress enacted RFRA in 1993 to restore strict scrutiny for neutral laws burdening religion after Smith rejected such exemptions....

The Brady Act required local sheriffs to conduct handgun purchase background checks until the federal system launched. Sheriff Jay...

Christy Brzonkala sued her alleged assailants under a federal statute creating a damages remedy for gender-motivated crimes of vio...

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

Barbara Grutter, rejected by the University of Michigan law school, challenged its admissions program considering race as one fact...

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

Yaser Esam Hamdi, an American citizen captured in Afghanistan, was held in a Navy brig without charges. Justice O'Connor, announci...

Christopher Simmons planned a murder at seventeen and was sentenced to death in Missouri. Justice Kennedy, for a 5-4 majority, hel...

New London condemned Susette Kelo's little pink house as part of a private redevelopment project intended to create jobs and tax r...

Alfred Smith and Galen Black were fired from jobs at a private drug rehabilitation organization in Oregon for ingesting peyote at ...