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American Communications Association v. Douds CQP Key Case, Case Summary
May 8, 1950

American Communications Association v. Douds The Court's record in reviewing the loyalty cases that came before it during the McCarthy era shows that the judiciary, like the other branches of governm . . .

Bolling v. Sharpe CQP Key Case, Case Summary
May 17, 1954

Bolling v. Sharpe Argued together and decided with the state school desegregation cases in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), this case dealt with segregated schools in the D . . .

Briggs v. Elliott CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Jan. 28, 1952

Brown v. Board of Education CQP Key Case, Case Summary
May 17, 1954

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas In June 1952 the Court announced that it would hear arguments in cases challenging school segregation in laws in Delaware (Gebhart v. Belton ), Virginia . . .

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (Brown II) CQP Key Case, Case Summary
May 31, 1955

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (Brown II) Chief Justice Warren's strategy in Brown I, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), assumed that the states would accept the inevitability of school desegregatio . . .

Dennis v. United States CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Jun. 4, 1951

Dennis v. United States In this case the Court pondered the constitutionality of the Smith Act as applied to eleven leaders of the Communist Party. They were indicted on two counts. The first was con . . .

Morissette v. United States CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Jan. 7, 1952

Morissette v. United States Joseph Morissette, a Michigan farmer, was convicted of stealing government property from a rural forest area where he hunted. The land was used by the United States as a p . . .

United States ex rel. Knauff v. Shaughnessy CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Jan. 16, 1950

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Jun. 2, 1952

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer In the spring of 1952 the United Steel Workers threatened to strike after the Wage Stabilization Board failed to negotiate a settlement between the union and the . . .

Zorach v. Clauson CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Apr. 28, 1952

Zorach v. Clauson A New York City program allowed public schools to release students during the school day to receive religious education. A student could be released only on written request of his o . . .

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