Abrams v. United States The defendants in this case had distributed pamphlets in Yiddish and English criticizing the Wilson administration for sending U.S. troops to Russia in the summer of 1918. The . . .
Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was one of the most ambitious and most successful of all the New Deal's experimental programs. Covering a seven-state area . . .
Buchanan v. Warley The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) devised a case to test residential segregation ordinances in Louisville, Kentucky. The law, like many through . . .
Carter v. Carter Coal Co. In response to Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935), Congress tried to salvage part of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) with the Guffy-Sny . . .
Gitlow v. New York Gitlow posed a challenge to New York's 1902 Criminal Anarchy Act. Benjamin Gitlow, a leading figure in the American Communist Party, was convicted for publishing a radical newspape . . .
Hammer v. Dagenhart The Child Labor Act of 1916 was the response to reformers calling for a federal statute to ensure minimal child labor standards nationwide. Congress relied on its interstate comme . . .
Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell In 1933, during the Great Depression, Minnesota farmers, like farmers across the country, were losing their property through foreclosure. The state res . . .
Missouri v. Holland A 1916 treaty between Great Britain and the United States for the protection of migratory birds called for closed hunting seasons on several species. Congress enacted these provis . . .
Myers v. United States In order to prevent President Johnson from removing any government officials appointed by President Lincoln from office, Congress in 1876 passed the Tenure in Office Act. This . . .
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Through Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935), the Court invalidated Section 7(a) of the National Industri . . .
Pierce v. Society of Sisters In 1922 Oregon voters approved an initiative requiring parents to send all children between the ages of eight and sixteen to public schools. The initiative developed from . . .
Powell v. Alabama Also known as the Scottsboro Case . . .
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States The centerpiece of the New Deal's economic program, as well as its most controversial measure, was the National Industrial Recovery Act, (NIRA) the constituti . . .
Schenck v. United States Ironically, the war to make the world safe for democracy triggered the worst invasion of civil liberties at home in the nation's history up to that point. The government obvi . . .
United States v. Butler The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 (AAA) was the pivotal measure in the New Deal effort to aid agriculture during the Great Depression. It was based on the notion of R . . .
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. In a joint resolution, Congress authorized the president to embargo arms shipments to countries at war in the Chaco region of South America. Using this au . . .
Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. No case better illustrates the conflicted rulings of the Taft Court than one involving zoning for land use. Among conservatives, property enjoyed a near s . . .
Weeks v. United States Freemont Weeks, an employee of an express company at the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, was searched and arrested by state officers and a federal marshal without a war . . .
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish In the midst of the congressional debate over President Roosevelt's Court-packing plan, in which he tried to secure legislation allowing him to name up to six addition . . .