Coleman v. Miller , 307 U.S. 433 (decided June 5, 1939): there is no time limit on states ratifying proposed Constitutional Amendments...

Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission , 584 U.S. 617 (decided June 4, 2018): First Amendment protected cakeshop...

Hammer v. Dagenhart , 247 U.S. 251 (decided June 3, 1918): Interstate Commerce Clause did not authorize Congress to prohibit child labor...

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer , 343 U.S. 579 (decided June 2, 1952): President cannot seize private property (steel mills which...

Pierce v. Society of Sisters , 268 U.S. 510 (decided June 1, 1925): striking down Oregon statute requiring all children to go to public...

Maul v. United States , 274 U.S. 501 (decided May 31, 1927): vessel without proper registration properly seized by Coast Guard 34 miles...

BNSF Ry. Co. v. Tyrrell , 581 U.S. 402 (decided May 30, 2017): railroad could be sued in state where it was neither based nor...

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...