Supremes' Greatest Hits The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life

Name: Supremes' Greatest Hits The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life
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ISBN: 9781402741074

ISBN-10: 1402741073

ISBN-13: 9781402741074

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael G. Trachtman

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Can the government seize your house in order to build a shopping mall? Can it determine what you can do to your own body?nbsp; Why are you allowed to copy songs on a CD, but not music files the Internet? The answers to those questions come from the Supreme Court—and its rulings have shaped American life and justice. Here are 34 of the most significant issues it has grappled with—from equal rights to privacy rights, from the limits of speech to the boundaries between church and state. Many of these cases read like thrillers…right down to their cliff-hanging endings. Among the most intriguing: the Dred Scott decision, Miranda v. Arizona, Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, and Bush v.…

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List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Publication date: 1/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: "A Government of Laws, Not Men"



How the Supreme Court Became Supreme



Marbury V. Madison



Dred Scott V. Sanford



One Nation Under God? Matters of Church and State



Engle V. Vitale



Epperson V. Arkansas



Van Orden V. Perry



McCreary County, Kentucky V. Aclu of Kentucky



Innocent Until Proven Guilty: The Rights of the Accused



Gideon V. Wainwright



Miranda V. Arizona



The Melting Pot: Race, Discrimination, and Diversity



Brown V. Board of Education



Gratz V. Bollinger



Grutter V. Bollinger



Boy Scouts of America V. Dale



Playing Politics



Buckley V. Valeo



Bush V. Gore



The Right of Privacy: From Before the Cradle to the Grave



Griswold V. Connecticut



Roe V. Wade



Washington V. Glucksberg



"Big Government" in Your Business and in Your Backyard



West Coast Hotel Co. V. Parish



Heart of Atlanta Motel V. United States



Katzenbach V. McClung



Burlington Industries V. Ellerth



Standard Oil Co. V. United States



Kelo V. City of New London



Monroe V. Pape



Limiting the Imperial Presidency



Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. V. Sawyer



United States V. Nixon



How Free Is Free Speech?



Brandenburg V. Ohio



Miller V. California



Texas V. Johnson



New York Times Co. V. Sullivan



New York Times Co. V. United States



Old Laws and New Technologies



MGM Studios Inc. V. Grokster, Ltd.



Kyllo V. United States



United States V. American Library Association


Afterword


Resources