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List of United States Supreme Court cases involving the First Amendment
List of US Supreme Court cases involving the First Amendment, also called First Amendment jurisprudence or free speech cases, covering Schenck, Gitlow, Tinker, Sullivan, Texas v. Johnson, Citizens United, and TikTok v. Garland by topic.
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 10
Volume 10 of United States Reports (6 Cranch), Supreme Court cases from the 1810 term reported by William Cranch, including Fletcher v. Peck, King v. Delaware Insurance Company, and The Juliana.
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 100
Volume 100 of the United States Reports (10 Otto) collects 89 Supreme Court decisions from October Term 1879, reported by William Tod Otto, including the Trade-Mark Cases and Strauder v. West Virginia.
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 11
Volume 11 of United States Reports (7 Cranch), Supreme Court decisions from the 1812-1813 terms, reported by William Cranch, 93 cases, including United States v. Hudson and Goodwin and Schooner Exchange v. McFaddon.
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 163
Volume 163 of United States Reports (1895 Term, reporter Bancroft Davis) collects Supreme Court decisions from May 1896, including Plessy v. Ferguson, Wong Wing v. United States, Talton v. Mayes, Ward v. Race Horse, and United States v. Ball.
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 200
Volume 200 of the United States Reports (1905 Term, reporter Charles Henry Butler) collects 51 Supreme Court decisions including Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. Thompson, Missouri v. Illinois, and Strickley v. Highland Boy.
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 250
Volume 250 of the United States Reports (1918-1919 term, reporter Ernest Knaebel) collects 82 Supreme Court decisions, including Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919), and Portsmouth Harbor Co. v. United States, 250 U.S. 1.
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 275
Volume 275 of United States Reports (1927 Term) collects 69 Supreme Court decisions, including Baltimore & Ohio R.R. v. Goodman, Mammoth Oil Co. v. United States, and Gong Lum v. Rice.
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 300
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 300, collects 60 Supreme Court decisions from February 1 to April 11, 1937, including West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish.
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 5
Volume 5 of the United States Reports (1 Cranch), William Cranch's first reporter volume, covering the 1801 and 1803 Supreme Court terms, containing 24 cases including Marbury v. Madison and Stuart v. Laird.
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 6
Volume 6 of the United States Reports, also cited 6 U.S., an early bound volume of official U.S. Supreme Court decisions; cases include Murray v. The Charming Betsey, Little v. Barreme, Church v. Hubbart, United States v. Fisher, and Hepburn & Dundas v. Ellzey.
Lists of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Lists of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States compile the Justices' chambers clerks since Horace Gray's 1880s practice; no complete roster exists, with early clerks like William H. Dennis (1888) documented only partially.
Lists of United States Supreme Court cases
Lists of United States Supreme Court cases: official indexes (docket search, Granted/Noted Lists, United States Reports), Library of Congress briefs archives, and educational landmark-case lists, each organized by term, citation, or significance.
Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume
Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume index decisions by their volume in the United States Reports, the Court's official reporter, whose numbering runs from Dallas's 1790 volume 1 through over 580 bound volumes today.
Litmus test (politics)
Litmus test (politics): a single dealbreaker issue used to judge candidates, especially Roe v. Wade for Supreme Court nominees; includes the "no litmus test" pledge, ABA vetting, and 2025 changes.
Lochner v. New York
Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905): Supreme Court case striking down New York's ten-hour Bakeshop Act as violating liberty of contract under the Fourteenth Amendment; 5–4 Peckham decision; namesake of the Lochner era ended by West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937).
Louis Brandeis
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941), Boston progressive lawyer known as the "People's Lawyer" and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1916-1939, first Jewish justice; creator of the Brandeis brief and co-author of "The Right to Privacy."
Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), the unanimous Supreme Court decision by Chief Justice Warren striking down Virginia's Racial Integrity Act and all state bans on interracial marriage under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses.
Mapp v. Ohio
Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), decided June 19, 1961, is the Warren Court decision extending the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule to state criminal prosecutions via the Fourteenth Amendment, overruling Wolf v. Colorado after the warrantless Cleveland search of Dollree Mapp.
Marshal of the United States Supreme Court
Marshal of the United States Supreme Court: the Court's own appointed officer (not the U.S. Marshals Service), created by the 1867 statute, serving as chief security officer, building superintendent, disbursing officer, and courtroom crier; Gail Curley has held the post since June 2021.
Marshall Court
The Marshall Court (1801–1835), under Chief Justice John Marshall, the longest-serving Chief Justice, established judicial review in Marbury v. Madison, federal supremacy in McCulloch v. Maryland, the commerce power in Gibbons v. Ogden, and the Marshall Trilogy of federal Indian law.
Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018): US Supreme Court case in which Jack Phillips refused a same-sex wedding cake; the Court reversed 7-2 on Free Exercise grounds due to Commission hostility to religion.
McCollum v. Board of Education
1948 U.S. Supreme Court case, Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education of School District No. 71, Champaign County, striking down 8 to 1 on-campus released time religious instruction as a First Amendment establishment of religion.
McCulloch v. Maryland
McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819), Supreme Court decision by Chief Justice John Marshall upholding Congress's implied power to charter the Second Bank under the Necessary and Proper Clause and barring state taxation of federal instruments.
McDonald v. City of Chicago
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), Supreme Court case extending the Second Amendment individual right to keep and bear arms to state and local governments via Fourteenth Amendment Due Process incorporation, 5-4, opinion by Alito.
McGirt v. Oklahoma
McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) is the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation reservation was never disestablished, making eastern Oklahoma Indian country and barring state prosecution of Indians for major crimes there.
Melville Fuller
Melville Weston Fuller, eighth Chief Justice of the United States (1888-1910), Chicago attorney nominated by Grover Cleveland; led the Fuller Court through Plessy, Lochner, Pollock, and E.C. Knight and the Evarts Act reform.
Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination
Obama's March 16, 2016 Supreme Court nomination of D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland to replace Antonin Scalia; Senate Republicans under Mitch McConnell granted no hearing or vote, the nomination lapsed, and Neil Gorsuch later filled the seat.
Midnight Judges Act
Midnight Judges Act is the Judiciary Act of 1801, which created sixteen Federalist-filled circuit judgeships in Adams' final weeks; Jeffersonian Republicans repealed it in 1802, upheld in Stuart v. Laird.
Miller v. California
Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), the U.S. Supreme Court decision establishing the three-prong Miller test for obscenity (prurient interest, patent offensiveness, lack of serious value), replacing Memoirs and permitting local community standards.