Hipolite Egg Company v. United States (1911)
In Hipolite Egg Company v. United States (1911), the Court upheld the federal Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which prohibited the shipment of adulterated foods in…
Carter v. Carter Coal Company (1936)
This Supreme Court case deals with two very different conceptions of federalism and the scope of Congress’s commerce powers. The first conception is dual…
Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
During Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term as president (1933–37), the U.S. Supreme Court repeatedly declared portions of the New Deal unconstitutional, holding that the…
United States v. E. C. Knight Company (1895)
The issue in United States v. E. C. Knight Company (1895) was whether the Sherman Antitrust Act, enacted in 1890 to prohibit monopolistic business…
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)
During the first term of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, the Supreme Court invalidated many of his New Deal programs on the grounds that they…
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)
In the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause did not prohibit racial discrimination in…
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
During the early years of the 1900's, the U.S. Supreme Court sanctioned a kind of federal police power by upholding federal laws that banned…
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
The Supreme Court has never held that the death penalty, per se, is a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual…
Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
See Incorporation (Nationalization) of the Bill of Rights
Bush v. Gore (2000)
In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court through its decision in Bush v. Gore ended the uncertainty surrounding which candidate had actually won the presidential…
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961) is the first of a series of cases in which the Warren Court incorporated various procedural aspects of the Bill…
Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal (1973)
Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal (1973) concerns an ordinance passed by the City of Burbank, California, prohibiting jet aircraft from taking off from the city’s…
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that pronounced state-mandated segregation in public schools unconstitutional, was a…
