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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... resulting from this turnover in personnel and ideology was the Court's use of the Fourteenth Amendment as a source of fundamental rights and liberties . The Court's ... result was achieved through the The Power of Judicial Review 17.
... result of cognitive acts or omissions " by the school board that resulted in " an enclave of separate , black schools , " the Court found a constitutional violation . Emergence of the de jure de facto distinction represented a ...
... result as Black and Douglas , but maintained that prior restraints were not impermissible under all cir- cumstances . From his perspective , the government failed to establish that publication of The Pentagon Papers would have ...
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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