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Adamson v. California 

Adamson v. California Admiral Dewey Adamson, a poor, illiterate black man, had twice served time for robbery. He had, however, been out of prison for seventeen years when police arrested him for the . . .

Bridges v. Wixon 

Bridges v. Wixon Harry Bridges was a permanent alien in the United States. A leader of the longshoreman's union, he was also allegedly affiliated with the Communist Party. The government had been try . . .

Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire 

Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire Walter Chaplinsky was a Jehovah's Witness. While preaching, he created a public disturbance, and the police came to escort him away. Chaplinsky protested his removal and c . . .

Colegrove v. Green 

Colegrove v. Green Three Illinois voters petitioned an Illinois district court to require the state to change the sizes and shapes of its congressional voting districts. The petitioners claimed that . . .

Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township 

Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township Observers assumed that when the Court incorporated the Free Exercise Clause during World War II, the Establishment Clause would also apply to the state . . .

Haupt v. United States 

Haupt v. United States Hans Max Haupt was convicted of treason against the United States. A military tribunal had earlier convicted Haupt's son Herbert of performing sabotage and spy work for the Ger . . .

Hirabayashi v. United States 

Hirabayashi v. United States The first of the Japanese internment cases, which include Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), and Ex parte Endo, 323 U.S. 283 (1944), grew out of Executive O . . .

Korematsu v. United States 

Korematsu v. United States In the second of the Japanese internment cases—the first was Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81 (1943)—the Court was unable to evade the larger constitut . . .

Shelley v. Kraemer 

Shelley v. Kraemer The Court in Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (1917), voided local residence ordinances enforcing racial segregation as a deprivation of property rights in violation of the Fourteen . . .

State of Louisiana ex. rel. Francis v. Resweber 

State of Louisiana ex. rel. Francis v. Resweber Petitioner Willie Francis was a convicted murderer sentenced to death by electrocution. Strapped into the electric chair, Francis received an electrica . . .

Thornhill v. Alabama 

Thornhill v. Alabama Byron Thornhill was arrested while picketing Brown Wood Preserving Company and convicted for violating an Alabama statute that prohibited loitering or picketing around places of . . .

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette 

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette Following the decision in Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940), in which the Court rejected a claim by Jehovah's Witnesses th . . .

Wickard v. Filburn 

Wickard v. Filburn No case better exemplified the antagonism of conservatives on the Supreme Court to the New Deal than United States v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936), in which the majority struck down t . . .