Search:

Get Stu's Views
by email




>
Cartoons, -> Constitutional Law Cartoons
Morse v. Frederick cartoons image illustration picture

Morse v. Frederick
(Read case)

Description:
forthcoming

Select Usage (details) :



Gonzales v. Carhart cartoons image illustration picture

Gonzales v. Carhart
(Read case)

Description:
forthcoming

Select Usage (details) :



Gonzales v. Carhart cartoons image illustration picture

Gonzales v. Carhart
(Read case)

Description:
forthcoming

Select Usage (details) :



Bowers v. Hardwick cartoons image illustration picture

Bowers v. Hardwick
(Read case)

Description:
fundamental right to engage in sodomy, homosexual conduct.

Select Usage (details) :



Brown v. Board of Education cartoons image illustration picture

Brown v. Board of Education
(Read case)

Description:
sseparate but equal doctrine, public education, violates the fourteenth amendment, tangibly equal resources and facilities, segregation.

Select Usage (details) :



Bush v. Gore cartoons image illustration picture

Bush v. Gore
(Read case)

Description:
constitutional standards apply to recounts, clear standards, determine voter intent, recount of votes.

Select Usage (details) :



Griswold v. Connecticut cartoons image illustration picture

Griswold v. Connecticut
(Read case)

Description:
right to privacy, marital relationship, contraceptives, penumbra, zone of privacy

Select Usage (details) :



Hamdi v. Rumsfeld cartoons image illustration picture

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
(Read case)

Description:
citizen "enemy combatant" has due process right to contest his detention, non detention act

Select Usage (details) :



Lawrence v. Texas cartoons image illustration picture

Lawrence v. Texas
(Read case)

Description:
texas sodomy statute law, private consensual sexual conduct.

Select Usage (details) :



Marbury v. Madison cartoons image illustration picture

Marbury v. Madison
(Read case)

Description:
judiciary act, power to declare unconstitutional, appellate jurisdiction, mandamus, original jurisdiction

Select Usage (details) :



Plessy v. Ferguson cartoons image illustration picture

Plessy v. Ferguson
(Read case)

Description:
separate but equal accommodations, racial inferiority, the fourteenth amendment, separate but equal doctrine

Select Usage (details) :



San Antonio v. Rodriguez cartoons image illustration picture

San Antonio v. Rodriguez
(Read case)

Description:
appropriations among school districts, comparative wealth, education is not a fundamental right.

Select Usage (details) :



Shelley v. Kraemer cartoons image illustration picture

Shelley v. Kraemer
(Read case)

Description:
judicial enforcement of racially restrictive covenants constitutes state action, fourteenth amendment.

Select Usage (details) :



Texas v. Johnson cartoons image illustration picture

Texas v. Johnson
(Read case)

Description:
burning the american flag burning, freedom of expression, first amendment, symbolic speech

Select Usage (details) :



Washington v. Glucksberg cartoons image illustration picture

Washington v. Glucksberg
(Read case)

Description:
laws prohibiting physician assisted suicide, terminally ill, mentally competent, patients in extreme pain, right to die,

Select Usage (details) :



Gonzales v. Raich cartoons image illustration picture

Gonzales v. Raich
(Read case)

Description:
medical marijuana, cancer, terminally ill, prescription morphine.

Select Usage (details) :



Kelo v. New London cartoons image illustration picture

Kelo v. New London
(Read case)

Description:
fifth amendment, eminent domain just compensation, public purpose, takings of private property, private economic development

Select Usage (details) :



Cooper v. Aaron cartoons image illustration picture

Cooper v. Aaron

Description:
school desegregation, brown v. board of education, supremacy clause

Select Usage (details) :



Loving v. Virginia cartoons image illustration picture

Loving v. Virginia
(Read case)

Description:
Interracial marriage, equal protection.

Select Usage (details) :



Yick Wo v. Hopkins cartoons image illustration picture

Yick Wo v. Hopkins
(Read case)

Description:
Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits racial discrimination.

Select Usage (details) :



Washington v. Davis cartoons image illustration picture

Washington v. Davis
(Read case)

Description:
Disparate impact; disparate treatment.

Select Usage (details) :



Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis cartoons image illustration picture

Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis
(Read case)

Description:
Private club; state action.

Select Usage (details) :



Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company, Inc. cartoons image illustration picture

Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company, Inc.
(Read case)

Description:
Peremptory challenge; Batson Challenge, state action, voir dire, exlude black jurors

Select Usage (details) :



City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Company cartoons image illustration picture

City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Company
(Read case)

Description:
Racial quota; strict scrutiny, remedial plan

Select Usage (details) :



Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena cartoons image illustration picture

Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena
(Read case)

Description:
Affirmative action; strict scrutiny, race based compensation incentive, state actor

Select Usage (details) :



Shaw v. Reno cartoons image illustration picture

Shaw v. Reno
(Read case)

Description:
gerrymandering; reapportionment; strict scrutiny; Voting Rights Act, odd shaped voting districts

Select Usage (details) :



Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. New York cartoons image illustration picture

Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. New York

Description:
Equal Protection; rational basis test

Select Usage (details) :



Frontiero v. Richardson cartoons image illustration picture

Frontiero v. Richardson
(Read case)

Description:
Sex suspect classification, similarly situated members of different sexes

Select Usage (details) :



Craig v. Boren cartoons image illustration picture

Craig v. Boren
(Read case)

Description:
Intermediate scrutiny, gender based classifications

Select Usage (details) :



United States v. Virginia cartoons image illustration picture

United States v. Virginia
(Read case)

Description:
Public university gender classification requires exceedingly persuasive justification.

Select Usage (details) :



City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center cartoons image illustration picture

City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center

Description:
Quasi suspect classification

Select Usage (details) :



Romer v. Evans cartoons image illustration picture

Romer v. Evans
(Read case)

Description:
Equal Protection Clause; homosexual rights, state action

Select Usage (details) :



Baehr v. Lewin cartoons image illustration picture

Baehr v. Lewin

Description:
Prohibition on same sex marriage.

Select Usage (details) :



Palko v. Connecticut cartoons image illustration picture

Palko v. Connecticut
(Read case)

Description:
Fifth Amendment; double jeapordy clause; concept of ordered liberty.

Select Usage (details) :



Adamson v. California cartoons image illustration picture

Adamson v. California
(Read case)

Description:
Right against self incrimination.

Select Usage (details) :



Skinner v. Oklahoma ex rel. Williamson cartoons image illustration picture

Skinner v. Oklahoma ex rel. Williamson
(Read case)

Description:
Forced sterilization violate due process.

Select Usage (details) :



Lochner v. New York cartoons image illustration picture

Lochner v. New York
(Read case)

Description:
Police power.

Select Usage (details) :



Penn Central Transportation Company v. City of New York cartoons image illustration picture

Penn Central Transportation Company v. City of New York
(Read case)

Description:
Eminent domain clause; takings clause, landmark, payment of just compensation

Select Usage (details) :



Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council cartoons image illustration picture

Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
(Read case)

Description:
Eminent domain clause; takings clause, nuisance, regulation, payment of just compensation

Select Usage (details) :



Tahoe Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency cartoons image illustration picture

Tahoe Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
(Read case)

Description:
Moratorium on develepment as eminent domain clause; takings clause, payment of just compensation

Select Usage (details) :



Reynolds v. Sims cartoons image illustration picture

Reynolds v. Sims
(Read case)

Description:
Reapportionment; dilution of representation, Equal Protection Clause

Select Usage (details) :



Edgewood Independent School District v. Kirby cartoons image illustration picture

Edgewood Independent School District v. Kirby

Description:
Public school expenditures among districts must be equal.

Select Usage (details) :



Saenz v. Roe cartoons image illustration picture

Saenz v. Roe
(Read case)

Description:
Privileges and Immunities Clause; welfare benefits, length of residency.

Select Usage (details) :



Meyer v. Nebraska cartoons image illustration picture

Meyer v. Nebraska
(Read case)

Description:
Liberty interests, teach English only

Select Usage (details) :



Poe v. Ullman cartoons image illustration picture

Poe v. Ullman

Description:
actual controversy, actual dispute, declaratory judgment, nullification, per legem terrae, ripeness

Select Usage (details) :



Roe v. Wade cartoons image illustration picture

Roe v. Wade
(Read case)

Description:
complete ban on abortions violates the right to privacy, state, abortion laws, viable zone of privacy

Select Usage (details) :



Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey cartoons image illustration picture

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
(Read case)

Description:
restrictions on abortions cannot unduly interfere with a woman's right to choose, judicial bypass, substantive due process, undue burden test

Select Usage (details) :



Board of Regents v. Roth cartoons image illustration picture

Board of Regents v. Roth
(Read case)

Description:
due process, contract rights, property interests, procedural due process

Select Usage (details) :



Mathews v. Eldridge cartoons image illustration picture

Mathews v. Eldridge
(Read case)

Description:
a hearing, termination of social security disability benefits, terminating disability benefits; administrative procedures, due process, entitlement.

Select Usage (details) :



R.A.V. v. City of Saint Paul cartoons image illustration picture

R.A.V. v. City of Saint Paul
(Read case)

Description:
fighting words may be prohibited, ordinance, target race, color, creed, religion, or gender violates the first amendment, content based restriction, defamation, fighting words, libel.

Select Usage (details) :



Abrams v. United States cartoons image illustration picture

Abrams v. United States
(Read case)

Description:
the first amendment does not protect speech aimed at influencing the american public against the war the government is trying to wage.

Select Usage (details) :



Brandenburg v. Ohio cartoons image illustration picture

Brandenburg v. Ohio
(Read case)

Description:
speech advocating social change is protected by the first amendment, speech that advocates violence but does not incite immediate use of force or violence.

Select Usage (details) :



New York Times Company v. Sullivan cartoons image illustration picture

New York Times Company v. Sullivan
(Read case)

Description:
a public official may receive damages only for malicious libel, showing of actual malice, defamation

Select Usage (details) :



Bartnicki v. Vopper cartoons image illustration picture

Bartnicki v. Vopper

Description:
illegally obtained information, matter of public significance, chilling effect, intervenor

Select Usage (details) :



Miller v. California cartoons image illustration picture

Miller v. California
(Read case)

Description:
distribution of obscene material, the first amendment, sexually explicit material, prurient interest, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, obscenity, pornography.

Select Usage (details) :



City of Renton v. Playtime Theaters, Inc. cartoons image illustration picture

City of Renton v. Playtime Theaters, Inc.
(Read case)

Description:
zoning ordinances may target secondary effects of speech without offending the first amendment, free speech, content based restriction.

Select Usage (details) :



Cohen v. California cartoons image illustration picture

Cohen v. California
(Read case)

Description:
vulgar speech does not disturb the peace, offensive speech.

Select Usage (details) :



Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council cartoons image illustration picture

Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council
(Read case)

Description:
the first amendment protects some commercial speech, flow of commercial information.

Select Usage (details) :



Buckley v. Valeo cartoons image illustration picture

Buckley v. Valeo
(Read case)

Description:
contributions to political campaigns are protected as speech, limits on campaign contributions, limits on campaign expenditures, the first amendment.

Select Usage (details) :



United States v. Grace cartoons image illustration picture

United States v. Grace

Description:
the first amendment prohibits denying access to a traditional public forum, sidewalks, forums for public expression, designated public forum.

Select Usage (details) :



Ward v. Rock Against Racism cartoons image illustration picture

Ward v. Rock Against Racism
(Read case)

Description:
noise ordinances advance a substantial government goal, limit speech, protect a legitimate government interest, content based, foreclose alternate avenues of communication; least restrictive intrusive

Select Usage (details) :



International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc. v. Lee cartoons image illustration picture

International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc. v. Lee
(Read case)

Description:
an airport terminal is not a public forum, regulations prohibiting solicitation for donations and religious leafleting.

Select Usage (details) :



Rust v. Sullivan cartoons image illustration picture

Rust v. Sullivan
(Read case)

Description:
funding, abortion counseling programs, violate the first amendment.

Select Usage (details) :



Legal Services Corporation v. Valazquez cartoons image illustration picture

Legal Services Corporation v. Valazquez

Description:
federal grant money, challenge welfare laws, the first amendment, legal assistance, welfare recipients.

Select Usage (details) :



Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier cartoons image illustration picture

Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
(Read case)

Description:
schools may exercise editorial control over student speech in school sponsored activities, the first amendment.

Select Usage (details) :



Madsen v. Womens Health Center, Inc. cartoons image illustration picture

Madsen v. Womens Health Center, Inc.
(Read case)

Description:
injunction, the first amendment protection, narrowly tailored, prior restraint.

Select Usage (details) :



Board of Airport Commissioners v. Jews for Jesus, Inc. cartoons image illustration picture

Board of Airport Commissioners v. Jews for Jesus, Inc.
(Read case)

Description:
overbreadth doctrine, a resolution that prohibits all conduct or speech protected by the first amendment is unconstitutional.

Select Usage (details) :



Board of Directors of Rotary International v. Rotary Club of Duarte cartoons image illustration picture

Board of Directors of Rotary International v. Rotary Club of Duarte
(Read case)

Description:
private association, denial of membership to women, unruh act to the california rotary clubs, the right of expressive association, the first amendment.

Select Usage (details) :



Employment Division Department of Human Resources v. Smith cartoons image illustration picture

Employment Division Department of Human Resources v. Smith
(Read case)

Description:
Free exercise clause, unemployment benefits, peyote, unemployment compensation, state criminal statute, religious ritual.

Select Usage (details) :



Everson v. Board of Education cartoons image illustration picture

Everson v. Board of Education
(Read case)

Description:
government reimbursement to facilitate transportation of students to school does not violate the establishment clause.

Select Usage (details) :



Lee v. Weisman cartoons image illustration picture

Lee v. Weisman
(Read case)

Description:
prayers at commencement exercises violate the first amendment, state endorsement of religion.

Select Usage (details) :



Zelman v. Simmons Harris cartoons image illustration picture

Zelman v. Simmons Harris
(Read case)

Description:
school voucher program, religious affiliated schools, vouchers to parents, not violate the establishment clause of the first amendment.

Select Usage (details) :



McCulloch v. Maryland cartoons image illustration picture

McCulloch v. Maryland
(Read case)

Description:
congress power to enact legislation to carry out its powers, constitutional authority, pass legislation, establish a national bank that is exempt from state taxing powers. necessary and proper clause

Select Usage (details) :



Gibbons v. Ogden cartoons image illustration picture

Gibbons v. Ogden
(Read case)

Description:
the constitution's grant of authority to regulate commerce among the states must necessarily include the ability to regulate navigation; commerce clause; dormant commerce clause; supremacy clause

Select Usage (details) :



United States v. Darby cartoons image illustration picture

United States v. Darby
(Read case)

Description:
intrastate components of interstate commerce fall within the commerce clause, ability to regulate certain intrastate activities.

Select Usage (details) :



Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States cartoons image illustration picture

Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States
(Read case)

Description:
racial discrimination has an economic impact and so may be regulated by congress under the commerce clause

Select Usage (details) :



United States v. Lopez cartoons image illustration picture

United States v. Lopez
(Read case)

Description:
enact school gun possession laws, connected with interstate commerce, congressional interference in a purely local concern.

Select Usage (details) :



The Civil Rights Cases cartoons image illustration picture

The Civil Rights Cases
(Read case)

Description:
the civil rights act was intended to protect the legal and civil rights of all citizens. civil rights civil rights act

Select Usage (details) :



Jones v. Alfred H Meyer Company cartoons image illustration picture

Jones v. Alfred H Meyer Company
(Read case)

Description:
congress has the authority to prohibit private discrimination in order to give full effect to the provisions of the thirteenth amendment.

Select Usage (details) :



Katzenbach v. Morgan cartoons image illustration picture

Katzenbach v. Morgan
(Read case)

Description:
state voting requirements cannot conflict with federal provisions, federal voting rights act. supremacy clause

Select Usage (details) :



City of Rome v. United States cartoons image illustration picture

City of Rome v. United States

Description:
congress has the right to prohibit unintended effects of practices that do not alone violate the 15th amendment, prohibit voting practices, discriminatory purpose, discriminatory effect when applied.

Select Usage (details) :



City of Boerne v. Flores cartoons image illustration picture

City of Boerne v. Flores
(Read case)

Description:
the religious freedom restoration act (rfra) exceeds congress' power under the fourteenth amendment and violates principles necessary to maintain separation of powers and a federal state balance.

Select Usage (details) :



United States v. Morrison cartoons image illustration picture

United States v. Morrison
(Read case)

Description:
congress may not regulate non economic, violent criminal conduct based solely on an assertion that the conduct has a negative impact on interstate commerce.

Select Usage (details) :



South Dakota v. Dole cartoons image illustration picture

South Dakota v. Dole

Description:
congress may condition payments of federal funds to states on their passage of laws restricting alcohol sales, spending power, twenty first amendment

Select Usage (details) :



Missouri v. Holland cartoons image illustration picture

Missouri v. Holland

Description:
treaties, superior to state laws, federal laws and regulations enacted pursuant to a validly entered treaty take precedence over the laws of the individual states.

Select Usage (details) :



Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority cartoons image illustration picture

Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority
(Read case)

Description:
state and local government employers are subject to the flsa, application of the fair labor standards act to local government employers does not violate the tenth amendment.

Select Usage (details) :



New York v. United States cartoons image illustration picture

New York v. United States
(Read case)

Description:
congress cannot impose a regulatory process on the individual states in violation of the tenth amendment, forcing individual states to comply with nationwide regulations.

Select Usage (details) :



Printz v. United States cartoons image illustration picture

Printz v. United States
(Read case)

Description:
congress may not compel state and local law enforcement officers to administer the brady act, federal law that requires a particular action by a state or local officer.

Select Usage (details) :



Gibbons v. Ogden cartoons image illustration picture

Gibbons v. Ogden
(Read case)

Description:
states may not exercise regulatory power delegated to congress simply because congress has failed to act, absence of congressional action to regulate commerce

Select Usage (details) :



City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey cartoons image illustration picture

City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey
(Read case)

Description:
restrict the flow of waste, landfills, states may not regulate commercial activity within their borders in such a way as to favor state interests. dormant commerce clause

Select Usage (details) :



Kassel v. Consolidated Freightways Corporation cartoons image illustration picture

Kassel v. Consolidated Freightways Corporation
(Read case)

Description:
state regulations having a direct impact on interstate commerce must be justifiable as a safety concern.

Select Usage (details) :



United Building and Construction Trades Council of Camden County v. Mayor and Council of Camden cartoons image illustration picture

United Building and Construction Trades Council of Camden County v. Mayor and Council of Camden

Description:
municipal ordinances that discriminate based on local residency may violate the privileges and immunities clause, municipal residency requirements have interstate effect.

Select Usage (details) :



Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v. Sawyer The Steel Seizure Case cartoons image illustration picture

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v. Sawyer The Steel Seizure Case
(Read case)

Description:
presidential authority must be explicit, president, specific constitutional provisions, there is no inherent executive authority, executive order

Select Usage (details) :



United States v. Nixon cartoons image illustration picture

United States v. Nixon
(Read case)

Description:
executive privilege does not shield the president from the judicial process, recognized claim of privilege, due process considerations, criminal trial, executive immunity, in camera inspection, speech or debate clause

Select Usage (details) :



Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha cartoons image illustration picture

Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha
(Read case)

Description:
a grant of executive authority cannot be overridden by a congressional veto, once congress has acted to vest authority in an administrative agency, it cannot act to overturn the action of that agency in the absence of further legislation.

Select Usage (details) :



Clinton v. New York cartoons image illustration picture

Clinton v. New York
(Read case)

Description:
the line item veto violates the constitution, line item veto act, virtual amendment of congressional acts by the president, delegation doctrine

Select Usage (details) :



Bowsher v. Synar cartoons image illustration picture

Bowsher v. Synar
(Read case)

Description:
sequestration, budget appropriations cannot be delegated to a legislator the delegation of executive functions to a legislative administrator violates the constitutionally imposed doctrine of separation of powers

Select Usage (details) :



Morrison v. Olson cartoons image illustration picture

Morrison v. Olson
(Read case)

Description:
the appointments clause of the constitution permits congress to delegate to the courts the ability to appoint special prosecutors who are inferior officers. ndependent counsel

Select Usage (details) :



Ex Parte McCardle cartoons image illustration picture

Ex Parte McCardle
(Read case)

Description:
congress has constitutional authority to regulate the appellate jurisdiction of the federal courts and the supreme court. repeal

Select Usage (details) :



Baker v. Carr cartoons image illustration picture

Baker v. Carr
(Read case)

Description:
the guaranty clause of the constitution, judicially resolving an otherwise political question, political right; the equal protection clause, judicial question

Select Usage (details) :



Nixon v. United States cartoons image illustration picture

Nixon v. United States
(Read case)

Description:
nonjusticiable, impeachment of a federal judge, u.s. senate, sole authority; judicial review, judicial participation

Select Usage (details) :



Allen v. Wright cartoons image illustration picture

Allen v. Wright
(Read case)

Description:
case or controversy requirement, cognizable controversy, redress, confer standing, satisfy the federal standing requirement, present injury

Select Usage (details) :



Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife cartoons image illustration picture

Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife
(Read case)

Description:
injury in fact and redressability must be established even under a federal statute conferring a private cause of action, private right of action, standing, personal injury, public, injury in fact

Select Usage (details) :



Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Enviornmental Services TOC, Inc. cartoons image illustration picture

Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Enviornmental Services TOC, Inc.
(Read case)

Description:
forthcoming

Select Usage (details) :



Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union cartoons image illustration picture

Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union
(Read case)

Description:
harmful internet content, least restrictive alternative to protect minors, suppresses a substantial amount of protected speech, unconstitutional, less restrictive alternatives exist

Select Usage (details) :



Ashcroft v. The Free Speech Coalition cartoons image illustration picture

Ashcroft v. The Free Speech Coalition
(Read case)

Description:
overbreadth doctrine, speech restrictions prohibiting a substantial amount of protected speech are overbroad and unconstitutional, child pornography, obscenity

Select Usage (details) :



Board of Trustees University of Alabama v. Garrett cartoons image illustration picture

Board of Trustees University of Alabama v. Garrett
(Read case)

Description:
states are not liable under the ada the americans with disabilities act, liable for employment discrimination, disability. eleventh amendment, equal protection, sovereign immunity

Select Usage (details) :



Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association cartoons image illustration picture

Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association
(Read case)

Description:
private associations can be state actors, state action, close nexus, challenged action, seemingly private behavior

Select Usage (details) :



Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington cartoons image illustration picture

Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington
(Read case)

Description:
iolta accounts are not takings requiring just compensation. just compensation is measured by the property owner's loss rather than the government's gain.

Select Usage (details) :



Bush v. Gore cartoons image illustration picture

Bush v. Gore
(Read case)

Description:
constitutional standards apply to recounts. in the absence of clear standards to determine voter intent, a recount of votes cannot be permitted.

Select Usage (details) :



City of Littleton Colorado v. Z.J. Gifts cartoons image illustration picture

City of Littleton Colorado v. Z.J. Gifts
(Read case)

Description:
licensing scheme implicating first amendment interests must provide for "prompt judicial review" of any administrative denial of a license.

Select Usage (details) :



Easley v. Cromartie cartoons image illustration picture

Easley v. Cromartie

Description:
legislative determinations, district boundary challenges, legislatively drawn boundarie, legitimate political objectives, traditional districting principles.

Select Usage (details) :



Elk Grove Unified School Dist. V. Newdow cartoons image illustration picture

Elk Grove Unified School Dist. V. Newdow
(Read case)

Description:
federal courts abstain from resolving state domestic relations issues, religious education, abstention, standing

Select Usage (details) :



Engel v. Vitale cartoons image illustration picture

Engel v. Vitale
(Read case)

Description:
organized prayers in public schools are unconstitutional, the establishment clause of the first amendment, compose official prayers, religious program carried on by the government.

Select Usage (details) :



Florida Lime and Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul, Director, Dept. of Agriculture of California cartoons image illustration picture

Florida Lime and Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul, Director, Dept. of Agriculture of California

Description:
conflict preemption requires impossible compliance with both federal and state regulations.

Select Usage (details) :



Grutter v. Bollinger cartoons image illustration picture

Grutter v. Bollinger
(Read case)

Description:
educational diversity is a compelling state interest, racial classifications, narrowly tailored, strict scrutiny

Select Usage (details) :



Hamdi v. Rumsfeld cartoons image illustration picture

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
(Read case)

Description:
individual due process rights must be balanced against national security, citizen detainee, classification as an enemy combatant, habeas corpus, war power

Select Usage (details) :



Lawrence v. Texas cartoons image illustration picture

Lawrence v. Texas
(Read case)

Description:
regulation of sexual expression violates the fundamental right of privacy, state laws criminalizing homosexual relations violate substantive due process. sodomy.

Select Usage (details) :



Locke v. Davey cartoons image illustration picture

Locke v. Davey
(Read case)

Description:
public funding of religious instruction justifies scholarship restrictions, the free exercise clause, state financed religious instruction, establishment clause

Select Usage (details) :



Lorillard Tobacco Company v. Reilly cartoons image illustration picture

Lorillard Tobacco Company v. Reilly

Description:
federal cigarette advertising regulations preempt conflicting state regulations, congress expressly preempts state or local action, conflicting state regulation must yield to federal law, supremacy clause

Select Usage (details) :



Lorillard Tobacco Company v. Reilly2 cartoons image illustration picture

Lorillard Tobacco Company v. Reilly2

Description:
restrictions on commercial speech are not subject to strict scrutiny

Select Usage (details) :



Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs cartoons image illustration picture

Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs

Description:
the fmla, state governments are liable for money damages for interfering or restraining state employees exercise of their rights under the family and medical leave act of 1993. family leave

Select Usage (details) :



Nguyen v. Immigration and Naturalization Service cartoons image illustration picture

Nguyen v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
(Read case)

Description:
gender based classification, basic biological differences between men and women factor into an equal protection analysis, substantially related to achieving an important governmental objective.

Select Usage (details) :



Palazzolo v. Rhode Island cartoons image illustration picture

Palazzolo v. Rhode Island
(Read case)

Description:
eminent domain, inverse condemnation, just compensation, ripeness, taking, environmental concerns justify limitations on development, when a regulation denies all economically beneficial or productive use of property

Select Usage (details) :



Palmore v. Sidoti cartoons image illustration picture

Palmore v. Sidoti
(Read case)

Description:
custody determinations, potential racial bias against the child, courts may not use private racial bias as a justification for official court action

Select Usage (details) :



Pierce County Washington v. Guillen cartoons image illustration picture

Pierce County Washington v. Guillen
(Read case)

Description:
congress may regulate intrastate activity that affects interstate commerce, the commerce clause, instrumentalities of interstate commerce

Select Usage (details) :



Republican Party of Minnesota v. White cartoons image illustration picture

Republican Party of Minnesota v. White
(Read case)

Description:
judicial impartiality is not a compelling enough interest to justify suppressing candidates views, government regulations that supress speech on the basis of its content must be narrowly tailored, first amendment

Select Usage (details) :



Sabri v. United States cartoons image illustration picture

Sabri v. United States
(Read case)

Description:
spending clause, appropriate federal funds for the general welfare, facial challenge, necessary and proper clause, spending power

Select Usage (details) :



Shaw v. Murphy cartoons image illustration picture

Shaw v. Murphy
(Read case)

Description:
prison officials have discretion to restrict prisoners speech, restrictions on prisoner's communication mst be "reasonably related to legitimate penological interests."

Select Usage (details) :



Silveira v. Lockyer cartoons image illustration picture

Silveira v. Lockyer

Description:
the collective rights interpretation of the second amendment is affirmed; right to maintain an effective state militia and does not establish an individual right to own or possess firearms for personal use, right to bear arms

Select Usage (details) :



Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps of Engineers cartoons image illustration picture

Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
(Read case)

Description:
administrative action conflicting with clear statutory language is not entitled to deference, administrative authority; commerce clause

Select Usage (details) :



State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Campbell cartoons image illustration picture

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Campbell
(Read case)

Description:
punitive damages awards must be weighed against the compensatory damages; reprehensibility of the defendant's conduct, disparity between actual harm caused and amount of the punitive damages awarded. bad faith, supersedeas bond

Select Usage (details) :



Tennessee v. Lane cartoons image illustration picture

Tennessee v. Lane
(Read case)

Description:
title ii of the ada is a valid exercise, abrogate the state's eleventh amendment immunity, congress must have unequivocally expressed its intent; americans with disabilities act

Select Usage (details) :



Thomas and Windy City Hemp Development Board v. Chicago Park District cartoons image illustration picture

Thomas and Windy City Hemp Development Board v. Chicago Park District
(Read case)

Description:
content based restriction, prior restraint, requiring permits for all public assemblies does not infringe on the freedom of speech, content neutral regulation of access to public property, provides adequate standards

Select Usage (details) :



United States v. American Library Association, Inc. cartoons image illustration picture

United States v. American Library Association, Inc.

Description:
libraries do not violate the first amendment by blocking pornography, censor

Select Usage (details) :



United States v. Seeger cartoons image illustration picture

United States v. Seeger

Description:
religion, the test of whether a belief "in a relation to a supreme being", sincere and meaningful, occupies a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief in god.

Select Usage (details) :



Vieth v. Jubelirer cartoons image illustration picture

Vieth v. Jubelirer
(Read case)

Description:
political gerrymandering claims are not justiciable, no judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving the issues presented, nonjusticiable political question, justiciability

Select Usage (details) :



Virginia v. Black cartoons image illustration picture

Virginia v. Black
(Read case)

Description:
burning a cross, violates the first amendment, state statute banning cross burning with the intent to intimidate another person, free expression, prima facie evidence

Select Usage (details) :



Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. Village of Stratton cartoons image illustration picture

Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. Village of Stratton
(Read case)

Description:
freedom of speech includes the right to disseminate religious views at private residences; requiring a permit, door to door activities on private residential property.

Select Usage (details) :



Whitman v. American Trucking Association, Inc. cartoons image illustration picture

Whitman v. American Trucking Association, Inc.

Description:
delegation doctrine; executive action involves a certain degree of administrative discretion; intelligible principle; legislative power; separation of powers

Select Usage (details) :



Gratz v. Bollinger cartoons image illustration picture

Gratz v. Bollinger

Description:
a point system emphasizing minority status violates equal protection; university admissions policies; take race into account, affirmative action; reverse discrimination

Select Usage (details) :



Rogers v. Lodge cartoons image illustration picture

Rogers v. Lodge

Description:
discriminatory at large voting schemes are unconstitutional; multimember districts violate the fourteenth amendment; motivated by a discriminatory purpose.

Select Usage (details) :



McCleskey v. Kemp cartoons image illustration picture

McCleskey v. Kemp

Description:
forthcoming

Select Usage (details) :



Mobile v. Bolden cartoons image illustration picture

Mobile v. Bolden

Description:
forthcoming

Select Usage (details) :



Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation cartoons image illustration picture

Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation

Description:
disproportionate impact; equal protection violation; proof of intentional or purposeful discrimination; disparate impact; invidious discrimination; zoning

Select Usage (details) :



Hill v. Colorado cartoons image illustration picture

Hill v. Colorado
(Read case)

Description:
confrontational speakers; unwilling recipients; a reasonable restriction on the time, place, and manner of protected speech does not violate the first amendment; content-based restriction; forum

Select Usage (details) :



Martin v. Hunter's Lessee cartoons image illustration picture

Martin v. Hunter's Lessee

Description:
Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, the Unites States Supreme Court is the singular revising authority to control discordant state court judgments and harmonize them.

Select Usage (details) :



Desegratation Laws cartoons image illustration picture

Desegratation Laws

Description:
Cooper v. Aaron

Select Usage (details) :



Political Question Doctrine cartoons image illustration picture

Political Question Doctrine

Description:
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, states can sue over global warming, case or controversy requirement

Select Usage (details) :



Commerce Power cartoons image illustration picture

Commerce Power

Description:
Gibbons v. Ogden

Select Usage (details) :



Commerce Clause cartoons image illustration picture

Commerce Clause

Description:
Hammer v. Dagenhart [The Child Labor Case], prohibiting the use of the facilities of interstate commerce to effect an intended evil

Select Usage (details) :



Medical Marijuana cartoons image illustration picture

Medical Marijuana

Description:
Gonzales v. Raich, medicinal marijuana violates federal drug laws under the commerce clause powers

Select Usage (details) :



Dormant Commerce Clause cartoons image illustration picture

Dormant Commerce Clause

Description:
C&A Carbone, Inc. v. Clarkstown, ordinance that discriminates against interstate commerce in favor of local business or investment is per se invalid, unless municipality demonstrates it has no other means to advance a legitimate local interest

Select Usage (details) :



United Haulers Ass'n v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority cartoons image illustration picture

United Haulers Ass'n v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority

Description:
United Haulers Ass'n v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority, limits C&A Carbone, Inc v. Clarkstown holding regarding waste management activities by governments

Select Usage (details) :



Barriers to Interstate Trade Violate the Commerce Clause cartoons image illustration picture

Barriers to Interstate Trade Violate the Commerce Clause

Description:
Baldwin v. G.A.F. Seelig, Inc., Barriers to commercial traffic between states, direct or indirect, violate the Commerce Clause when purpose and effect of such barriers is to suppress or mitigate the consequences of competition between states.

Select Usage (details) :



Hamdan v. Rumsfeld cartoons image illustration picture

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

Description:
Accused terrorists hearings before regular tribunals, military commissions

Select Usage (details) :



Kelo v. City of New London cartoons image illustration picture

Kelo v. City of New London

Description:
Eminent domain, just compensation, public purpose, takings of private property for use by other private citizens pursuant to a carefully considered economic development plan intended for a public purpose are valid under the Fifth Amendment

Select Usage (details) :



Partial Birth Abortion Ban cartoons image illustration picture

Partial Birth Abortion Ban

Description:
Gonzales v. Carhart, woman's health, late term abortions

Select Usage (details) :



Racial Balancing Strict Scrutiny cartoons image illustration picture

Racial Balancing Strict Scrutiny

Description:
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District, all racially based state action must pass strict scrutiny, even if the asserted purpose is racial balancing

Select Usage (details) :



Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life cartoons image illustration picture

Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life

Description:
Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, corporations may sponsor issue oriented ads advertisements prior to an election

Select Usage (details) :



Ten Commandments Displays Establishment Clause cartoons image illustration picture

Ten Commandments Displays Establishment Clause

Description:
McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky, ten commandments displays in county courthouses violate the first amendment establishment clause

Select Usage (details) :



Ten Commandments on State Capitol Grounds cartoons image illustration picture

Ten Commandments on State Capitol Grounds

Description:
Van Orden v. Perry, The mere fact that an object has some religious significance does not automatically mean that it runs afoul of the Establishment Clause.

Select Usage (details) :



Miller-El v. Dretke cartoons image illustration picture

Miller-El v. Dretke
(Read case)

Description:
batson v. kentucky, johnson v. california, peremptory challenges.

Select Usage (details) :



© 2002-2009 Stu. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy
Powered by 4Psite