Landmark Cases & Legal Concepts

Charles Schenck and Elizabeth Baer: Espionage Act and Holmes’s Dissent

Separate but Equal Supreme Court Case: Plessy v. Ferguson

Jennings v. Rodriguez: Detention, Ninth Circuit Rule, and Dissent

Yamataya v. Fisher: Due Process and the Japanese Immigrant Case

McDonald v. Chicago: Incorporation, Ruling, and Bruen’s Path

The Scottsboro Boys Trials: Powell, Norris, and Exoneration

Supreme Court Ruling on Tomatoes: Fruit or Vegetable?

Who Was Wade in Roe v. Wade? The DA and His Role

Garcetti v. Ceballos: The Official-Duty Rule and Its Limits

Turner v. Rogers: Holding, Safeguards, and Contempt Rules