Missouri Kansas & Texas Ry. Co. of Texas v. Ferris, 179 U.S. 602 (decided December 24, 1900): no federal question presented by Texas...

International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U.S. 215 (decided December 23, 1918): wire services can’t steal stories from one...

Memphis & L. R.R. Co. v. Berry, 112 U.S. 609 (decided December 22, 1884): tax break given to railroad company formed by act of...

Oregon v. Mitchell, 400 U.S. 112 (decided December 21, 1970): original jurisdiction case; Congress can set voting age requirements for...

United States v. Marion, 404 U.S. 307 (decided December 20, 1971): speedy trial requirement (Sixth Amendment) is not triggered until...

Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435 (decided December 19, 1932): defendant accused of liquor sale (during Prohibition) can assert...

Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland, Ohio, 409 U.S. 249 (decided December 18, 1972): simply because airplane crashed into...

Illinois Central R.R. Co. v. McKendree, 203 U.S. 514 (decided December 17, 1906): Secretary of Agriculture can’t make a regulation (here,...

Greene v. Georgia, 519 U.S. 145 (decided December 16, 1996): state Supreme Court on direct appeal does not have to defer to trial judge’s...

Heien v. North Carolina, 574 U.S. 54 (decided December 15, 2014): police can stop you for something they think is illegal but actually...

Katzenback v. McClung, 379 U.S. 294 and Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, 379 U.S. 241 (both decided December 14, 1964): Congress...

United States v. Wheeler, 254 U.S. 281 (decided December 13, 1920): Constitutional right to travel (art. IV, §2) does not apply to state...

Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (decided December 12, 2000): stopped the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court (though the Court had...

Texas v. Pennsylvania, 592 U.S. — (decided December 11, 2020): Texas has no standing to contest how other states conduct their elections...

Whole Women’s Health v. Jackson, 595 U.S. — (decided December 10, 2021): suit against abortion “bounty hunter” statute (Texas S. 8) can...

MacMath v. United States, 248 U.S. 151 (decided December 9, 1918): clerk employed as “acting U.S. weigher” at collection port not...

Chew Heong v. United States, 112 U.S. 536 (decided December 8, 1884): Chinese Exclusion Act (requiring certificate for entry) did not...

Campbell v. Holt, 115 U.S. 620 (decided December 7, 1885): new Texas constitution (which went into effect after Texas was readmitted into...

Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319 (decided December 6, 1937): Fifth Amendment’s prohibition of double jeopardy did not apply to the...

<i>Lopez v. Gonzalez</i>, 549 U.S. 47 (decided December 5, 2006): felony under state law which is only a misdemeanor under federal law is...