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 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 . . .
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) 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 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 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 . . .
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 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 . . .