Ledbetter v. Goodyear , 550 U.S. 618 (decided May 29, 2007): Title VII lawsuit as to sexual discrimination in employment (after 18 years...

Home Depot U.S.A. v. Jackson , 587 U.S. 435 (decided May 28, 2019): new party sued in third party class action can’t remove case to...

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States , 295 U.S. 495 (decided May 27, 1935) (the “sick chicken case”): invalidated many provisions of...

United States v. Salerno , 481 U.S. 739 (decided May 26, 1987): upholding Constitutionality of Bail Reform Act of 1984 which requires...

Choteau v. Burnet , 283 U.S. 691 (decided May 25, 1931): status as Native American does not excuse obligation to pay income tax on...

In re Shipp , 214 U.S. 386 (verdict rendered May 24, 1909): Only once has there been a criminal trial in the Supreme Court and this was...

Rust v. Sullivan , 500 U.S. 173 (decided May 23, 1991): Congress can prohibit family planning agencies receiving federal funds from...

TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group, 581 U.S. 258 (decided May 22, 2017): patent suit must be brought in defendant’s state of...

Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (decided May 21, 2007): mere allegation of parallel conduct insufficient to state an antitrust...

Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Albrecht, 587 U.S. 299 (decided May 20, 2019): drug manufacturer liable under state law failure to warn...

In re Whittington , 391 U.S. 341 (decided May 19, 1968): judge’s determination of juvenile as “delinquent” and therefore commitable to...

Plessy v. Ferguson , 163 U.S. 537 (decided May 18, 1896): the notorious “separate but equal” decision: segregated train cars are not...

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka , 347 U.S. 483 (decided May 17, 1954): “separate is inherently unequal”, invalidating on Equal...

California v. Greenwood , 486 U.S. 35 (decided May 16, 1988): police can search garbage left out by the curb without a warrant Mutual...

United States v. Miller , 307 U.S. 174 (decided May 15, 1939): Second Amendment guarantees only right to keep and bear arms in...

Frontiero v. Richardson , 411 U.S. 677 (decided May 14, 1973): gender is a “suspect class” so any discrimination is subject to “strict...

Apple v. Pepper , 587 U.S. 273 (decided May 13, 2019): purchasers of apps at App Store are direct purchasers and therefore can sue Apple...

Rhode Island v. Innis , 446 U.S. 291 (decided May 12, 1980): Armed robbery defendant locked in back of police car, after being given...

Smith v. Texas , 233 U.S. 630 (decided May 11, 1914): Texas statute restricting employment as a conductor to those who have already been...

Yick Wo v. Hopkins , 118 U.S. 356 (decided May 10, 1886): Fourteenth Amendment violated by ordinance allowing denial without recourse of...