United States v. Lopez , 514 U.S. 549 (decided April 26, 1995): Gun-Free School Zones Act (prohibiting guns in school zone) exceeds...

United States v. Carolene Products Co. , 304 U.S. 144 (decided April 25, 1938): Congress’s Commerce Clause power extends to public safety...

United States v. Ballard , 322 U.S. 78 (decided April 24, 1944): allegation that faith healing advocates knew that their claims of...

Virginia v. Moore , 553 U.S. 164 (decided April 23, 2008): not a Fourth Amendment violation to arrest rather than issue summons as...

Jones v. Mississippi , 593 U.S. 98 (decided April 22, 2021): not “cruel and unusual punishment” to sentence juvenile to life without...

City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan Nat’l Advertising of Austin, LLC , 596 U.S. 61 (decided April 21, 2022): City ordinance restricting...

Ramos v. Louisiana , 590 U.S. 83 (decided April 20, 2020): guilty verdict for serious crime must be unanimous (overruling 1972 cases...

Nelson v. Colorado , 581 U.S. 128 (decided April 19, 2017): striking down on Due Process grounds Colorado statute requiring acquitted...

Block v. Hirsh , 256 U.S. 135 (decided April 18, 1921): statute restricting conditions for eviction was exercise of police power and not...

Lochner v. New York , 198 U.S. 45 (decided April 17, 1905): striking down New York statute setting maximum work hours for bakery...

Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition , 535 U.S. 234 (decided April 16, 2002): striking down on First Amendment and overbreadth grounds Child...

Chandler v. Miller , 520 U.S. 305 (decided April 15, 1997): statute requiring candidates for state office to submit to drug test was...

Slaughter-House Cases , 83 U.S. 36 (decided April 14, 1873): Fourteenth Amendment (states can’t abridge “privileges or immunities of...

Valentine v. Chrestensen , 316 U.S. 52 (decided April 13, 1942): city could ban public distribution of handbills which argued political...

NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. , 301 U.S. 1 (decided April 12, 1937): in an early demonstration of the “switch” of 1937, upholding...

Pierson v. Ray , 386 U.S. 547 (decided April 11, 1967): state judges are immune from §1983 liability for judicial acts (here, an...

Totten v. United States , 92 U.S. 105 (decided April 10, 1876): secret agent can’t sue United States for back pay, due to publicity and...

Adkins v. Children’s Hospital , 261 U.S. 525 (decided April 9, 1923): striking down District of Columbia minimum wage law for women as...

Edwards v. Pacific Fruit Express Co. , 390 U.S. 538 (decided April 8, 1968): owner and supplier of railroad refrigerator cars was not a...

Stanley v. Georgia , 394 U.S. 557 (decided April 7, 1969): First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit criminalizing simple possession of...