Landmark Supreme Court Cases: A Reference GuideThis needed resource, written specifically for students and general readers, provides accessible discussions of 74 landmark Supreme Court cases that will help students understand the cases and their importance in American history. Cases selected for this work are those in which the Supreme Court's decisions have had a profound impact on society and the future and a meaning that transcends the impact on the immediate parties. In his own words, Donald Lively, Dean of Florida Coastal School of Law, discusses the facts, background, and significance of each landmark case so that students will be able to easily understand it. Each case features a fact box for quick reference succinctly identifying the issue, year of decision, outcome, vote, and author of the opinion. The narrative discussion of each case puts it in historical perspective, examines the background and constitutional issue involved, the case itself, why it is a landmark case, and its significance and impact. A short bibliography directs readers to a more in-depth discussion of the case and issue. |
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... dissenting opinion , Justice Byron White complained that intention- ally caused segregation was being left unremedied . Noting that state public school officials had taken steps to effect segregation in Detroit public schools over a ...
... dissenting opinion joined by Justices Byron White and Sandra Day O'Connor , would have allowed the state to regulate the marketplace of ideas when flag desecration was con- cerned . As the dissenters saw it , the American flag was not ...
... dissenting opinion , Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes , Jr. , main- tained that the Court had overstepped its boundaries . Holmes considered protection of contractual liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment to be a highly misguided exercise ...
Contents
Power to Regulate or Affect the National Economy | 43 |
State Police Power and the Dormant Commerce Clause | 55 |
Federal Preemption of State Law | 67 |
Copyright | |
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