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 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 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 . . .
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 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 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 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .