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 allegedly...

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

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. --- (decided April 5, 2021): Google wins copyright lawsuit; its partial copying of Java SE...

Thompson v. Clark, 596 U.S. — (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. — (decided April 1, 2021): In 2017 the Trump-led FCC reversed long-standing policy, affirmed in...

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 Horsemen”...

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

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