Marbury won his right to a commission and lost his case. The Court's opinion in 1803 is the source of judicial review.
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The amendment that says the Bill of Rights is not the whole list of rights, and the four cases where justices have used it, from Griswold to Dobbs.
Amendment Series
From the Prize Cases in 1863 to Slaughter-House in 1873: the blockade, Reconstruction, secession and the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Baker v. Carr to Texas v. Johnson: five opinions Brennan wrote for the Court on voting, libel, welfare hearings, gender and the flag.
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From the census citizenship question in 2019 to 303 Creative in 2023: five decisions on agency reasons, religious exercise, voting rules, guns and speech.
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From Marbury in 1803 to Bush v. Gore in 2000: five opinions and the different ways the Court has written them.
Legal Writing
From a Minnesota county that kept $25,000 it was not owed to a century of cases on what the Fifth Amendment makes a government pay for.
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Furman, Gregg, Coker, Atkins and Roper: how the Court has decided who may be executed, from 1972 to 2005.
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Brown, Bolling, Reynolds, Miranda and Loving: five opinions Earl Warren wrote for the Court between 1954 and 1967.
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Romer, Lawrence, Citizens United, Windsor and Obergefell: five opinions Anthony Kennedy wrote for the Court between 1996 and 2015.
Justice Profile
Lochner to Hoffman Plastic: how the Court moved from striking down hours and wage laws to upholding them, and then to who is covered.
SCOTUS
From Brown in 1954 to Zelman in 2002: school segregation, school funding, language instruction, suspensions and vouchers.
Education