Famous Constitutional Cases: Selected Links

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
Lochner v. New York (1905)
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health (1990)
New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
F.C.C. v. Pacifica (1978)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
R.A.V. v. St. Paul (1992)
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith (1990)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
 



Dred Scott v. Sandford

University of Groningen American Studies Site
http://grid.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/dred_scott/scottxx.htm

Paper prepared for Meeting of the American Political Science Association
http://pro.harvard.edu/PRO/abstracts/73/7304kwhittingt.html

The Case that Shook the Nation
http://www.ccil.org/~access/dredscot.htm

Abraham Lincoln on Dred Scott
http://nmail.devrycols.edu/Bus/dredscott.htm

Contemporary newspaper editorials
http://history.furman.edu/~benson/docs/dsmenu.htm

The Missouri Compromise
http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/bh041.html
 



Plessy v. Ferguson

synopsis with pictures and links
http://www.noblesweb.org/cp4/LBLevy.html

From National Constitution Center
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/plessy.html

African American History site
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/post-civilwar/plessy.html
 



Brown v. Board of Education

Colored Reflections
http://www.net4tv.com/color/50/BBoard.htm

National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/brvb/

Thurgood Marshall
http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/home.htm

Issue: Racial Segregation in Public Schools
http://www3.pbs.org/jefferson/enlight/brown.htm



Roe v. Wade

Oral Argument Audio File
http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?case_id=334&command=show

CNN 25th Anniversary  Report
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/roe.wade/

Mining Company Site w/links
http://law.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa980119.htm?rf=dp&COB=home

Abortion Law Homepage
http://hometown.aol.com/abtrbng/index.htm

Prolife.org
http://www.prolife.org

National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
http://www.naral.org/home.html



Griswold v. Connecticut

Oral Argument Audio File
http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?command=show&case_id=149

Estelle Griswold
http://www.cwhf.org/browse/inductees/griswold.htm

Liberty and Limits
http://web-cr02.pbs.org/wnet/federalist/story-privacy.html

Race, Gender & Justice
http://abacus.oxy.edu/~rgj/Daily/nov21.html

Another point of view
http://www.frc.org/podium/pd94f1gr.html



Furman v. Georgia

Oral Argument Audio File
http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?case_id=131&command=show

Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.se/women/2232.htm

Texas Tech Law Review article
http://www.law.ttu.edu/lawrev/volume29/book4/boettcher.htm

The Death Penalty in America
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/death/history.html

The Federalist Society
http://fed-soc.org/cl010203.htm



Lochner v. New York

Mercer Law Review Article
http://www.law.mercer.edu/Students/LAWREV/48313.htm#text2

Lochner in Cyberspace
http://www.si.umich.edu/~prie/tprc/abstracts97/011.txt

American Labor History Timeline
http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/student/subtex/.web/Groups/crossborder/historybib.html



Bowers v. Hardwick

Oral Argument Audio File
http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?case_id=44&command=show

Romer v. Evans
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/94-1039.ZD.html

Law Review Article 1
http://metalab.unc.edu/gaylaw/issue4/fajer.html

Law Review Article 2
http://metalab.unc.edu/gaylaw/issue6/sylla.htm

Georgia Supreme Court Tosses Anti Sodomy Law
http://amarilloglobenews.com/stories/112398/new_law.shtml



Marbury v. Madison

Marbury v. Madison Background & Players
http://www.jmu.edu/madison/marbury/index.htm

1800-1810 American Timeline
http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/1801.htm

John Marshall - Definer of a Nation
http://dcba.org/brief/sepissue/1997/art20997.htm

1801 Vote on Wm. Marbury's Petition
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hlaw:4:./temp/~ammem_PBpl::

1803 Petition, Debate & Vote of Wm. Marbury & Others from Annals of Congress (pages 34-50)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac2&fileName=012/llac012.db&recNum=14



Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health

Oral Argument Audio File
http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?command=show&case_id=91

Prof. Richards' Public Health Law Project Site
http://plague.law.umkc.edu/Xfiles/x335.htm

Issues in Ethics
http://scuish.scu.edu/SCU/Centers/Ethics/publications/iie/v4n2/

Boston Review
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR22.3/kamm.html

What Cruzan Means to the Practicing Physician
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=2025139&form=6&db=m&Dopt=r



New York Times v. Sullivan

Oral Argument Audio File
http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?case_id=277&command=show

ABA Concept Paper on Media Law
http://scratch.abanet.org/ceeli/crmedia.html

Columbia Journalism Review
http://cjr.org/year/91/6/books-brennan.asp

Image of "Heed Their Rising Voices" Advertisement
http://faculty-web.at.nwu.edu/commstud/freespeech/cont/cases/nytsullivan.GIF

Protecting the Second Amendment from Civil Abuses
http://www.2ndlawlib.org/journals/kgcivila.html



Texas v. Johnson

Oral Argument Audio File
http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?command=show&case_id=379

Flag Burning Bibiliography from LSU
http://its2.ocs.lsu.edu/guests/wwwlawl/biblio/flagburning.htm

The Flag Burning Page
http://www.esquilax.com/flag/

The Citizens Flag Alliance
http://www.cfa-inc.org/ogn798c.htm

Subcommittee Hearing on H.J. Res. 54
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/22268.htm

Brief for Amici Curiae in Support of Appellee
http://www.aclu.org/court/texasvusa.html



R.A.V. v. St. Paul

Oral Argument Audio File
http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?command=show&case_id=319

Civil Rights v. Civil Liberties
http://www.stockton.edu/~hatecntr/levin15.htm

Cornell Law Review Article
http://ftp.law.cornell.edu/clr/shi.htm

Center for Individual Rights
http://www.wdn.com/cir/fa-pc.htm

Cases Won by Center for Individual Rights
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/frompost/feb98/cir20a.htm



Tinker v. Des Moines

An Online Conversation with the Tinker v. Des Moines Plaintiffs (w/links)
http://ftp.abanet.org/publiced/lawday/tinker/

Proposed Guidelines for Student Religious Speech and Observance in Public Schools
http://www.law.mercer.edu/Students/LAWREV/46301.htm

First Amendment spirit fighting to survive in schools
http://www.freedomforum.org/speech/1998/4/21tinker.asp

Tinker Fraser & Hazelwood
http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/petronic/pages/pap-1.htm



F.C.C. v. Pacifica

Oral Argument Audio File
http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?command=show&case_id=120

Cato Paper
http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-035.html

Student Essay
http://www2.cybernex.net/~tokm/essay/carlin.txt

How the Decency Decision Defined the Net
http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/~sung/comm116/decency_decision.html

Still at it (w/"7 Dirty Words" opinion and monologue as transcribed by the FCC)
http://www.georgecarlin.com/



University of California v. Bakke

Oral Argument Audio File
http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?command=show&case_id=324

"Reverse Discrimination" or "Equal Opportunity"?
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dreyfus/bakke.html

ACLU "Affirmative Action in California"
http://www.cts.com/browse/aclu/209sd.html

Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education Since Bakke
http://www.dist.maricopa.edu/legal/sincebakke.html

Proposition 209
http://rocko.lab.csuchico.edu/~muradt/prop209.html



Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith

Oral Argument Audio File
http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?case_id=110&command=show

Religious Freedom vs. Compelling State Interests
http://puffin.creighton.edu/human/csrs/news/S98-1.html

American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978
http://web.hamline.edu/law/lawrelign/sacred/airfa78.ssw.htm

Supreme Court Rejects Religious Freedom Restoration Act
http://pcusa80.pcusa.org/pcnews/oldnews/1997/97262.htm

Native Americans and Religious Freedom:
http://www.csulb.edu/~research/Cent/Amend/indian.html

The Bill of Rights: A Casualty of the War on Drugs?
http://www.cjpf.org/BILLOFRI.html


Korematsu v. United States

Overview
http://www.law.uh.edu/teacher/korematsu/

Executive Order 9066
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/execordr.html

Japanese Internment links 
http://www.hist.unt.edu/09w-amw4.htm

Korematsu Receives Medal of Freedom
http://www.aclunc.org/aclunews/news298/korematsu.html

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