Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm’n, 558 U.S. 310 (decided January 21, 2010): Court disallows on First Amendment grounds any...

Nashville Milk Co. v. Carnation Co., 355 U.S. 373 (decided January 20, 1958): Robinson-Patman Act (prohibiting underselling to destroy...

Patsone v. Pennsylvania, 232 U.S. 138 (decided January 19, 1914): upholds statute prohibiting foreign born non-citizens from killing wild...

Mistretta v. United States, 488 U.S. 361 (decided January 18, 1989): The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 created the Sentencing Commission...

Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v. Board of Equalization of California, 493 U.S. 378 (decided January 17, 1990): generally applicable sales and...

Garrity v. New Jersey, 385 U.S. 493 (decided January 16, 1967): police officers being questioned in connection with investigation of...

Berry v. Davis, 242 U.S. 468 (decided January 15, 1917): An Iowa statute authorized vasectomies on “idiots, feeble-minded, drunkards,...

Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471 (decided January 14, 1963): the leading “fruit of the poisonous tree” case, where statements made...

One, Inc. v. Olsesen, 355 U.S. 371 (decided January 13, 1958): Citing its recent analysis in Roth v. United States, Court reverses...

United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (decided January 12, 2005): invalidating part of Federal Sentencing Act that empowers judge to find...

Dunn v. United States, 284 U.S. 390 (decided January 11, 1932): notable as the last opinion by Holmes, which he read from the bench (in a...

United States v. Georgia, 546 U.S. 151 (decided January 10, 2006): protections of ADA extend to those in state prison (prisoner could not...

FW/PBS, Inc. v. City of Dallas, 493 U.S. 215 (decided January 9, 1990): “adult” businesses had Free Speech right to contest zoning...

The Paquete Habana, 175 U.S. 677 (decided January 8, 1900): Fishing vessel was not a “prize of war” (its crew did not even know there was...

Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (decided January 7, 1946): Alabama statute requiring people to leave private property when asked violates...

United States v. Watts, 519 U.S. 148 (decided January 6, 1997): court can take into account preponderance of evidence of illegal...

O’Gorman & Young, Inc. v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co., 282 U.S. 251 (decided January 5, 1931): upholding New Jersey statute requiring...

Theatre Enterprises, Inc. v. Paramount Film Distributing Corp., 346 U.S. 537 (decided January 4, 1954): jury properly heard issue of...

United States v. Gaskin, 320 U.S. 527 (decided January 3, 1944): “Peonage” (abducting someone in debt to you and forcing him to work for...

Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165 (decided January 2, 1952): Defendant vomited out two capsules of (illegal) morphine at hospital after...