The Case of the Disappointed Office-Seeker: Marbury v. Madison (1803)
The Judiciary Act of 1801 and the Midnight Judges
The First Step—Repeal of the 1801 Judiciary Act
The Politics and Logic of Marshall’s Opinion
The Republicans Continue Their Attack
The Impeachment of Justice Chase
The Case of the Larcenous Cashier: M’Culloch v. Maryland (1819)
Interpreting the Constitution: Jefferson versus Hamilton
James McCulloh—Cashier Extraordinaire
The Case of the Rival Steamboat Operators: Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Creating a Question for the Federal Courts
Arguing before the Supreme Court
The Case of the Missionary to the Cherokee: Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
Challenging Georgia Law in the Supreme Court
Samuel Worcester Goes to Georgia
The Georgia Law before the Supreme Court
The Failure of Law and a Political Compromise
The Case of the Zealous Slave Catcher: Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
Edward Prigg and Margaret Morgan
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The Case of the Slave Who Would Be Free: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
The Case in the Missouri State Courts
The Growing Storm over Slavery
Dred Scott in the Missouri Supreme Court
The Case of the Antiwar Agitator: Ex parte Milligan (1866)
The Case of the New Orleans Butchers: The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
A Simple Health Regulation in an Unhealthy City
Justice Joseph Bradley, on Circuit
A Closely Divided Court Decides
The Case of the Woman Who Wanted to Be a Lawyer: Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)
A History of Legal Discrimination
A Person of Good Character—but Not Eligible
On Appeal to the Supreme Court
The Case of the Devout Bigamist: Reynolds v. United States (1879)
The Growing Opposition to the Faith
The Supreme Court Decides: Belief versus Practice
The Persecution and Prosecution of the Mormons
The Case of the Reluctant Strike Leader: In re Debs (1895)
George M. Pullman and the Palace Car
Judge Grosscup Issues an Injunction
The Case of the Almost-White Traveler: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The Freedmen after the Civil War
Challenging the Separate Car Act
The Separate Car Act in the Courts
The Case of the Stubborn Baker: Lochner v. New York (1905)
Industrialization and Protective Legislation
Substantive Due Process versus the Police Power
Bakeshops at the Turn of the Century
Trying to Clean Up the Bakeshops
Joseph Lochner Challenges the Law
The Supreme Court Hands Down a Surprise Decision
The Case of the Gentle Anarchist: Abrams v. United States (1919)
Theories of Speech and the Bad Tendency
Schenck and “Clear and Present Danger”
Holmes Learns from His Critics
Reaction to Holmes’s Dissent: Pro and Con
The Case of the High-Tech Bootlegger: Olmstead v. United States (1928)
The Road to the Noble Experiment
The Meaning of the Fourth Amendment
Justices Butler and Holmes Dissent
The Brandeis Dissent and the Right of Privacy
The Four Horsemen’s Last Ride: The New Deal Cases (1930s)
The Court and State Measures to Combat the Depression
The National Industrial Recovery Act
The New Deal Farm Program and the Court
The Attack on the New Deal Continues
The Case of the Conscientious Schoolchildren: The Flag-Salute Cases (1940 and 1943)
Lillian Gobitas Acts on Her Faith
The Witnesses in Federal Courts
The Witnesses in the High Court: Round I
The Violent Response to the Decision
Expanding the Boundaries of the First Amendment
The Case of Too-Long-Delayed Equality: Brown v. Board of Education (1954 and 1955)
Linda Brown and the Other Plaintiffs
The Beginnings of Desegregation
The Case of the Robust Press: New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
Merton Nachman Reads the Newspaper
The Struggle for Civil Rights in Alabama
L. B. Sullivan and Law Enforcement in Montgomery
The Sit-in Movement Comes to Alabama
The Supreme Court and the Press Clause
“Debate on Public Issues Should Be Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open”
The Case of the Uninformed Rapist: Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Ernesto Miranda and His Confession
The Due Process Revolution Begins: Gideon v. Wainwright
The Fifth Amendment’s “Great Right”
Connecting the Fifth and Sixth Amendments: Massiah
Strengthening the Connection: Escobedo
“You Have the Right to Remain Silent”
The Case That Aroused Great Passions: Roe v. Wade (1973)
Abortion Legislation: A Brief History
Growing Support for Abortion Rights
Establishing the Right to Privacy
Sarah Weddington Meets Norma McCorvey
Abortion in the Supreme Court before Roe
Coming Out of the Closet and into the Courts: The Gay Rights Cases (1986–2003)
Hardwick Goes to Court—Charting Unfamiliar Territory
The Court Tries to Find Its Way
John Geddes Lawrence Is Arrested
The Constitution Besieged: The War on Terror Cases (2000s)
The Supreme Court Issues a Warning