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Abrams v. United States 

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 . . .

Buchanan v. Warley 

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 . . .

Champion v. Ames 

Champion v. Ames Despite their opposition to many state measures regulating business, the justices, with a few significant exceptions, proved remarkably receptive to reading broad authority into the . . .

Gitlow v. New York 

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 

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 . . .

Lochner v. New York 

Lochner v. New York New York State passed a law limiting the number of hours a week bakery employees could work. The state reasoned that excessively long hours led to illness, which posed a danger to . . .

Missouri v. Holland 

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 . . .

Muller v. Oregon 

Muller v. Oregon An Oregon law limited women working in factories and laundries to no more than ten hours a day. Curt Muller, convicted of violating the law, appealed. He believed that the Supreme Co . . .

Myers v. United States 

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 . . .

Northern Securities Co. v. United States 

Northern Securities Co. v. United States The James J. Hill-J.P. Morgan group owned the Northern Pacific and Great Northern lines and had just bought the Burlington line to secure a terminal in Chicag . . .

Pierce v. Society of Sisters 

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 . . .

Schenck v. United States 

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 . . .

Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. 

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 

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 . . .