Warren Court

Black children in five states were denied admission to white schools under compulsory segregation laws. Chief Justice Warren wrote...

Cleveland police forced their way into Dollree Mapp's home without a valid warrant, allegedly searching for a bombing suspect, and...

New York's Board of Regents composed a brief nondenominational prayer for recitation in public schools. The Court held that it is ...

Tennessee had not redrawn state legislative districts since 1901, leaving rural voters vastly overrepresented compared to growing ...

Clarence Earl Gideon, tried for breaking into a Florida poolroom, was denied a court-appointed lawyer because Florida appointed co...

Pennsylvania law required ten Bible verses at the start of each school day, and Maryland required the Lord's Prayer, in companion ...

An Alabama official won five hundred thousand dollars over minor inaccuracies in a civil rights fundraising advertisement. Justice...

Alabama's legislature malapportioned districts, giving sparsely populated rural counties legislative power wildly disproportionate...

A downtown Atlanta motel refused Black guests and challenged the public accommodations provisions of the 1964 act. The Court held ...

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

Ernesto Miranda confessed to kidnapping and rape after two hours of police interrogation without being told of his rights. Chief J...

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

Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and a Black woman, were sentenced to a year in jail for marrying in Virginia, with the sen...

FBI agents attached an electronic listening device to the outside of a telephone booth used by bookmaker Charles Katz. The Court o...

Cleveland detective Martin McFadden observed men repeatedly pacing before a store, suspected an armed robbery, and frisked them, f...

Mary Beth Tinker and other students wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War and were suspended. Justice Fortas, for a 7-2 m...

An Ohio Klan leader was convicted under a criminal syndicalism statute after a rally with racial slurs filmed by television crews....

After Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block nine Black students from entering Little Rock Central High S...