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...

Ashe v. Swenson , 397 U.S. 436 (decided April 6, 1970): double jeopardy bars trial as to break-in and robbery of second poker player when...

Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. , 593 U.S. 1 (decided April 5, 2021): Google wins copyright lawsuit; its partial copying of Java SE to...

Thompson v. Clark , 596 U.S. 36 (decided April 4, 2022): To sue under §1983 in relation to a criminal proceeding (here, malicious...

Smith v. Allwright , 321 U.S. 649 (decided April 3, 1944): political party (here, Texas Democratic Party) is a “state actor” and liable...

Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp. , 549 U.S. 561 (decided April 2, 2007): “modification” can mean different things in different...

FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project , 592 U.S. 414 (decided April 1, 2021): In 2017 the Trump-led FCC reversed long-standing policy, affirmed...

United States v. Lanier , 520 U.S. 259 (decided March 31, 1997): state judge should have known sexual assaults would inculpate him under...

Ex parte Wilson , 114 U.S. 417 (decided March 30, 1885): crime punishable by years of hard labor is a Fifth Amendment “infamous crime”...

West Coast Hotels v. Parrish , 300 U.S. 379 (decided March 29, 1937): The Big Switch by Justice Roberts, breaking with the “Four...

Krulewitch v. United States , 336 U.S. 440 (decided March 28, 1949): Krulewitch and a woman brought another woman across state lines for...

<i>United States v. Cruikshank</i>, 92 U.S. 542 (decided March 27, 1876): The Constitution does not guarantee a right to peacefully...

Baker v. Carr , 369 U.S. 186 (decided March 26, 1962): federal courts have jurisdiction over suits alleging disproportionate...

United States v. Quality Stores, Inc. , 572 U.S. 141 (decided March 25, 2014): must withhold FICA from severance pay because it’s “wages”...

Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections , 383 U.S. 663 (decided March 24, 1966): poll tax violates Equal Protection (though literacy tests...

Comcast Corp. v. National Ass’n of African American-Owned Media , 589 U.S. 327 (decided March 23, 2020): owner of African-American owned...

Eisenstadt v. Baird , 405 U.S. 438 (decided March 22, 1972): Massachusetts statute prohibiting sale of contraceptives to single people...