| Case name | Citation | Summary | | Colorado v. Connelly | 479|157|1986}} | the involuntary statement of a criminal suspect uttered during a schizophrenic episode but not coerced by the Government is not precluded from admission in court by the due process clause |
| Griffith v. Kentucky | 479|314|1987}} | criminal defendants receive the benefit of new constitutional rules announced before their cases are final on direct review |
| Commissioner v. Groetzinger | 479|23|1987}} | addressed the issue of what qualifies as being either a trade or business under Section 162(a) of the Internal Revenue Code |
| Maryland v. Garrison | 480|79|1987}} | reasonable belief by police in the validity of a search warrant |
| Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of California | 480|102|1987}} | due process, personal jurisdiction, Minimum contacts |
| Arizona v. Hicks | 480|321|1987}} | probable cause relating to the plain view doctrine under the Fourth Amendment |
| United States v. Dunn | 480|294|1987}} | open fields doctrine |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca | 480|421|1987}} | Asylum applicants must show "well-founded fear" of persecution to establish their eligibility |
| Keystone Bituminous Coal Ass'n v. Debenedictus | 480|470|1987}} | substantive due process, the takings clause of the 5th Amendment |
| O'Connor v. Ortega | 480|709|1987}} | Fourth Amendment rights of public employees |
| Tison v. Arizona | 481|137|1987}} | Felony murder and the death penalty: death penalty is constitutional for major participants in felonies who exhibit extreme indifference to human life, even if someone else personally kills the victim |
| McCleskey v. Kemp | 481|279|1987}} | race discrimination and the death penalty |
| Pennsylvania v. Finley | 481|551|1987}} | right to counsel in post-conviction proceedings |
| Saint Francis College v. al-Khazraji | 481|604|1987}} | persons of Arabian ancestry may make claims for race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 |
| Hodel v. Irving | 481|704|1987}} | Fifth Amendment taking of fractional interests in Native American lands |
| United States v. Salerno | 481|739|1987}} | upholding Bail Reform Act of 1984 as not violating Due Process or Excessive Bail clauses |
| Turner v. Safley | 482|78|1987}} | free speech and marriage rights of prison inmates |
| Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon | 482|220|1987}} | Private actions under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are arbitrable |
| First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. Los Angeles County | 482|304|1987}} | substantive due process, temporary taking |
| O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz | 482|342|1987}} | not a violation of the Free Exercise Clause to deprive an inmate of attending a religious service for "legitimate penological interests." |
| Board of Airport Commissioners of Los Angeles v. Jews for Jesus, Inc. | 482|569|1987}} | constitutionality of broad free speech prohibitions |
| Edwards v. Aguillard | 482|578|1987}} | constitutionality of mandating teaching of creation science in conjunction with evolution |
| South Dakota v. Dole | 483|203|1987}} | use of federal funding to encourage changes in state laws—here, raising the drinking age in all states from 18 to 21 |
| Puerto Rico v. Branstad | 483|219|1987}} | Federal court enforcement of extradition of fugitives |
| Rankin v. McPherson | 483|378|1987}} | free speech rights of federal employees |
| United States v. Stanley | 483|669|1987}} | soldier's tort claim related to Project MKULTRA barred |
| Nollan v. California Coastal Commission | 483|825|1987}} | Fifth Amendment takings clause |
| Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier | 484|260|1988}} | freedom of speech in secondary school newspapers |
| Hustler Magazine v. Falwell | 485|46|1988}} | First Amendment; parody, emotional distress |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Abudu | 485|94|1988}} | Federal courts of appeals must review denials of motions to reopen immigration proceedings for abuse of discretion |
| Basic Inc. v. Levinson | 485|224|1988}} | interpretation of SEC Rule 10b-5, market price manipulation |
| Lying v. Northwest Indian CPA | 485|439|1988}} | religious rights of Native American vs. public interest |
| South Carolina v. Baker | 485|505|1988}} | Federal requirement that state and local bonds be issued in registered form did not violate the Tenth Amendment |
| Huddleston v. United States | 485|681|1988}} | admissibility of prior "bad acts" under the Federal Rules of Evidence |
| California v. Greenwood | 486|35|1988}} | 4th Amendment; even absent a warrant, the search and seizure of garbage left for collection outside the curtilage of a home |
| Maynard v. Cartwright | 486|356|1988}} | cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty |
| Webster v. Doe | 486|592|1988}} | ability for CIA firings and hirings to be judicially reviewed |
| Schweiker v. Chilicky | 487|412|1988}} | no implied cause of action in the Social Security Act |
| Frisby v. Schultz | 487|474|1988}} | First Amendment, privacy, restrictions on abortion protests |
| Morrison v. Olson | 487|654|1988}} | independent counsel's office |
| Thompson v. Oklahoma | 487|815|1988}} | 8th Amendment; cruel and unusual punishment; capital punishment for juveniles under 16 |
| Arizona v. Youngblood | 488|51|1988}} | state's failure to preserve evidence in a criminal case, absent bad faith, is not a due process violation |
| Beech Aircraft Corp. v. Rainey | 488|153|1988}} | Portions of investigatory reports otherwise admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 803(8)(C) are not inadmissible merely because they state a conclusion or opinion |
| Mistretta v. United States | 488|361|1989}} | United States Sentencing Commission, separation of powers |
| Florida v. Riley | 488|445|1989}} | aerial surveillance and the Fourth Amendment |
| City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. | 488|469|1989}} | Affirmative action, constitutionality of minority business set-aside programs for municipal contracts |
| Bonito Boats, Inc. v. Thunder Craft Boats, Inc. | 489|141|1989}} | state anti-plug molding law struck down under preemption doctrine for interfering with federal patent law |
| DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services | 489|189|1989}} | child welfare department's failure to protect a child from known child abuse does not violate due process |
| Teague v. Lane | 489|288|1989}} | new constitutional rules do not generally apply retroactively to cases on collateral review |
| Blanton v. North Las Vegas | 489|538|1989}} | Jury trial is unnecessary for petty offenses |
| Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association | 489|602|1989}} | requiring drug tests for railroad employees is not an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment |
| National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab | 489|656|1989}} | requiring drug tests for customs inspectors is not an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment |
| Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris | 489|688|1989}} | New York City Board of Estimate representation scheme was held to violate Equal Protection Clause; local government districts must conform to "one person, one vote" |
| Schmuck v. United States | 489|705|1989}} | Scope of mail fraud statute; proper test for lesser included offense |
| United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press | 489|749|1989}} | FBI rap sheets may not be disclosed to third parties under the Freedom of Information Act |
| Davis v. Michigan | 489|803|1989}} | Intergovernmental immunity prohibits state taxation of federal pensions if state pensions are tax-exempt. |
| Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield | 490|30|1989}} | held that the Indian Child Welfare Act governed the adoption of Indian children, and clarified the jurisdiction of the tribal court |
| Graham v. Connor | 490|386|1989}} | standard for claims for violations of the Fourth Amendment |
| Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express Inc. | 490|477|1989}} | Private securities fraud claims under Securities Act of 1933 arbitrable; Wilko v. Swan overruled |
| Lauro Lines s.r.l. v. Chasser et al. | 490|495|1989}} | interlocutory appeals; forum selection |
| Finley v. United States | 490|545|1989}} | pendent party jurisdiction, later overturned by statute |
| Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio | 490|642|1989}} | standard of evidence for disparate impact employment discrimination cases |
| Hernandez v. Commissioner | 490|680|1989}} | Scientology courses do not qualify as charitable deductions under the Internal Revenue Code |
| Community For Creative Non-Violence v. Reid | 490|730|1989}} | copyright, work for hire |
| Martin v. Wilks | 490|755|1989}} | civil procedure in employment affirmative action |
| Will v. Michigan Dept. of State Police | 491|58|1989}} | States and their officials acting in their official capacity are not persons under Section 1983 |
| Texas v. Johnson | 491|397|1989}} | freedom of speech (flag burning) |
| Ward v. Rock Against Racism | 491|781|1989}} | freedom of speech, excessive noise |
| Granfinanciera v. Nordberg | 492|33|1989}} | Seventh Amendment right to jury trials in bankruptcy proceedings |
| Penry v. Lynaugh | 492|302|1989}} | Eighth Amendment permits executing the mentally retarded; overruled by Atkins v. Virginia |
| Stanford v. Kentucky | 492|361|1989}} | Eighth Amendment permits executing offenders who were 16 or 17 years old at the time of the offense; overruled by Roper v. Simmons |
| Webster v. Reproductive Health Services | 492|490|1989}} | state funding for abortion rights |
| County of Allegheny v. ACLU | 492|573|1989}} | holiday displays and state endorsement of religion |
| University of Pennsylvania v. EEOC | 493|182|1990}} | peer review privilege not required by Federal Rules of Evidence or First Amendment |
| Commissioner v. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. | 493|203|1990}} | customer deposits constituting taxable income to a utility company |
| FW/PBS v. City of Dallas | 493|215|1990}} | regulation of "sexually oriented businesses" |
| Tafflin v. Levitt | 493|455|1990}} | state court jurisdiction over civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) claims |
| Sullivan v. Zebley | 493|521|1990}} | determination of SSI benefits for children |
| Washington v. Harper | 494|210|1990}} | permissibility of involuntary treatment of psychotic inmates |
| United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez | 494|259|1990}} | search and seizure of nonresident alien in foreign country |
| Chauffeurs, Teamsters, and Helpers Local No. 391 v. Terry | 494|558|1990}} | scope of 7th Amendment right to jury trial in civil cases |
| Employment Division v. Smith | 494|872|1990}} | religious freedom with respect to drug use |
| Missouri v. Jenkins | 495|33|1990}} | power of federal courts to order taxation by state or local governments |
| Osborne v. Ohio | 495|103|1990}} | states have the power to ban possession of child pornography without violating the First Amendment |
| Stewart v. Abend | 495|207|1990}} | rights of the successor of a copyright interest |
| Grady v. Corbin | 495|508|1990}} | double jeopardy and subsequent prosecutions |
| Taylor v. United States | 495|575|1990}} | definition of "burglary" under certain sentence enhancement provisions of the federal criminal code |
| Burnham v. Superior Court of California | 495|604|1990}} | physical presence as a requirement for personal jurisdiction |
| Duro v. Reina | 495|676|1990}} | Indian tribes have no jurisdiction over nonmember Indians |
| Westside School District v. Mergens | 496|226|1990}} | Bible study clubs in schools |
| United States v. Eichman | 496|310|1990}} | freedom of speech (flag burning) |
| Perpich v. Department of Defense | 496|334|1990}} | Congressional powers over U.S. National Guard |
| Eli Lilly & Co. v. Medtronic, Inc. | 496|661|1990}} | premarketing activity conducted to gain approval of a device under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is exempt from a finding of patent infringement |
| Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. | 497|1|1990}} | First Amendment and defamation—no "opinion privilege" |
| Illinois v. Rodriguez | 497|177|1990}} | Fourth Amendment, "co-occupant consent rule" |
| Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health | 497|261|1990}} | incompetent persons may not refuse medical treatment under the 14th Amendment |
| Hodgson v. Minnesota | 497|417|1990}} | requiring parental notification for abortion is constitutional with a judicial bypass provision |
| Walton v. Arizona | 497|639|1990}} | Capital punishment and sentencing procedure, partially overruled by Ring v. Arizona |
| Maryland v. Craig | 497|836|1990}} | the right of criminal defendants to confront witnesses |
| Perry v. Louisiana | 498|38|1990}} | forcibly medicating a death row inmate with a mental disorder in order to make sure he is competent to be executed is impermissible |
| Cheek v. United States | 498|192|1991}} | mistake of law is a valid defense to criminal tax evasion because of mens rea |
| Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell | 498|237|1991}} | case "hasten[ing] the end of federal court desegregation orders. |
| Oklahoma Tax Comm'n v. Citizen Band of Potawatomi Tribe of Okla. | 498|505|1991}} | an Indian tribe was not subject to state sales tax for sales to tribal members |
| Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Co. | 499|340|1991}} | minimal quantum of creativity is required for copyright protection |
| Cottage Savings Ass'n v. Commissioner | 499|554|1991}} | income tax consequences of mortgage interest exchange, examination of the consequences of the Savings and Loan crisis |
| Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute | 499|585|1991}} | enforcement of forum selection clauses |
| County of Riverside v. McLaughlin | 500|44|1991}} | suspects arrested without a warrant must be brought into court for a probable cause determination within 48 hours |
| Rust v. Sullivan | 500|173|1991}} | government is not required to fund abortion |
| Hernandez v. New York | 500|352|1991}} | prosecutor may use peremptory challenge against bilingual Latino jurors based on his doubts about the ability of such jurors to defer to the official translation of Spanish-language testimony |
| Lehnert v. Ferris Faculty Association | 500|507|1991}} | unions may compel contributions from nonmembers only for the costs of performing its duties as exclusive bargaining agent |
| California v. Acevedo | 500|565|1991}} | police may search a container in a car without a warrant if they have probable cause to believe it contains contraband |
| Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company | 500|614|1991}} | Batsons prohibition on race-based use of peremptory challenges applies in civil trials |
| Connecticut v. Doehr | 501|1|1991}} | Connecticut state statute that authorizes prejudgment attachment of real estate without prior notice or hearing violated the 14th Amendment right to due process |
| Toibb v. Radloff | 501|157|1991}} | holding that individual debtors may file for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code |
| McNeil v. Wisconsin | 501|171|1991}} | differences between the rights secured by the Fifth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment |
| Florida v. Bostick | 501|429|1991}} | random bus searches routinely conducted pursuant to passenger's consent |
| Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. | 501|560|1991}} | First Amendment and the restriction of nude dancing |
| Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. | 501|663|1991}} | First Amendment, freedom of the press |
| Payne v. Tennessee | 501|808|1991}} | admissibility of victim impact statements, stare decisis could be disregarded where fairness to victim's rights had priority over the demands of consistency in the common law. |
| Peretz v. United States | 501|923|1991}} | role of magistrate judges in jury selection in a felony trial |
| Harmelin v. Michigan | 501|957|1991}} | life imprisonment for cocaine possession |
| Simon & Schuster v. Crime Victims Board | 502|105|1991}} | holding that New York's Son of Sam law violated the First Amendment |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Doherty | 502|314|1992}} | U.S. Attorney General has broad discretion to reopen deportation proceedings |
| INS v. Elias-Zacarias | 502|478|1992}} | asylum on account of political opinion must be based on the refugee's political opinion |
| Lechmere, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board | 502|527|1992}} | employer can exclude nonemployee union organizers from private company property |
| Hudson v. McMillian | 503|1|1992}} | excessive force against prison inmates, 8th Amendment |
| INDOPCO, Inc. v. Commissioner | 503|79|1992}} | Expenditures incurred by a target corporation in the course of a friendly takeover are nondeductible capital expenditures under the Internal Revenue Code |
| United States v. Felix | 503|378|1992}} | conviction of a defendant for a crime and for a conspiracy to commit the same offense does not create double jeopardy |
| United States Department of Commerce v. Montana | 503|442|1992}} | formula used for reapportionment |
| Jacobson v. United States | 503|540|1992}} | entrapment occurs when government creates predisposition to commit offense where it did not exist |
| Foucha v. Louisiana | 504|71|1992}} | criteria for the continued involuntary commitment of an individual who had been found not guilty by reason of insanity |
| Riggins v. Nevada | 504|127|1992}} | Forced psychiatric medication during trial violated defendant's rights under Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| Quill Corp. v. North Dakota | 504|298|1992}} | Requiring out-of-state mail order vendor to collect use tax unconstitutionally burdened interstate commerce |
| United States v. Thompson-Center Arms Company | 504|505|1992}} | taxation of firearms |
| Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife | 504|555|1992}} | Standing in a suit to enforce the Endangered Species Act |
| United States v. Alvarez-Machain | 504|655|1992}} | application of the Ker-Frisbie doctrine |
| Morgan v. Illinois | 504|719|1992}} | A defendant facing the death penalty may challenge for cause a prospective juror who would automatically vote to impose the death penalty in every case |
| Georgia v. McCollum | 505|42|1992}} | standard on peremptory challenges from Batson v. Kentucky applied to criminal defendant |
| Gade v. National Solid Wastes Management Association | 505|88|1992}} | federal preemption of state labor safety laws |
| Forsyth County, Georgia v. The Nationalist Movement | 505|123|1992}} | 1st Amendment protection and police protection |
| New York v. United States | 505|144|1992}} | the take title provision of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985 violated the 10th Amendment |
| Wisconsin Department of Revenue v. William Wrigley, Jr., Co. | 505|214|1992}} | permissible scope of taxation of out-of-state corporations doing business within a particular state. |
| R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul | 505|377|1992}} | fighting words, hate speech |
| Lee v. Weisman | 505|577|1992}} | First Amendment, establishment of religion (prayer at high school graduations) |
| Planned Parenthood v. Casey | 505|833|1992}} | abortion; reaffirming the "core holding" of Roe v. Wade |
| United States v. Fordice | 505|717|1992}} | segregation of colleges and universities |
| Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council | 505|1003|1992}} | per se rule of takings clause |
| Soldal v. Cook County | 506|56|1992}} | Fourth Amendment protects property as well as privacy interests, even absent a search or an arrest (e.g. eviction) |
| Commissioner v. Soliman | 506|168|1993}} | "principal place of business" under the Internal Revenue Code |
| Nixon v. United States | 506|224|1993}} | judicial impeachment, political question doctrine |
| Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic | 506|263|1993}} | Civil Rights Act of 1871 could not be used to halt blockades of abortion clinics |
| Herrera v. Collins | 506|390|1993}} | claim of actual innocence is not grounds for federal habeas corpus relief |
| Spectrum Sports, Inc. v. McQuillan | 506|447|1993}} | quantum of proof required for a claim of attempted monopolization under § 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| Shaw v. Reno | 506|630|1993}} | appropriateness of considering race in redistricting |
| Reno v. Flores | 507|292|1993}} | procedures for detaining juvenile aliens awaiting deportation |
| Saudi Arabia v. Nelson | 507|349|1993}} | jurisdiction in an action based upon a "commercial activity" under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act |
| Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc. | 507|410|1993}} | First Amendment protections against restrictions on distributing handbills |
| United States Department of Justice v. Landano | 508|165|1993}} | Freedom of Information Act and confidentiality |
| Mertens v. Hewitt Associates | 508|248|1993}} | Preemption, non-fiduciary liability under ERISA |
| Wisconsin v. Mitchell | 508|476|1993}} | enhanced sentencing for hate crimes and the First Amendment |
| Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah | 508|520|1993}} | animal cruelty, freedom of religion |
| Minnesota v. Dickerson | 508|366|1993}} | seizure of contraband during stop & frisk |
| Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District | 508|384|1993}} | access by religious groups to public school facilities |
| South Dakota v. Bourland | 508|679|1993}} | an Indian tribes hunting and fishing rights were terminated on land the Federal government acquired for a reservoir |
| Sale v. Haitian Centers Council | 509|155|1993}} | illegal immigration |
| Godinez v. Moran | 509|389|1993}} | competency standard for pleading guilty or waiving the right to counsel is the same as the competency standard for standing trial |
| Alexander v. United States | 509|544|1993}} | RICO's forfeiture provision does not violate the First Amendment |
| Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals | 509|579|1993}} | federal judges as gatekeepers for allowing expert witnesses to testify in trials; see also Daubert Standard |
| Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. California | 509|764|1993}} | application of Sherman Antitrust Act to foreign companies |
| Fogerty v. Fantasy | 510|517|1994}} | attorney's fees in copyright litigation |
| Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. | 510|569|1994}} | copyright, commercial fair use is possible, parody |
| Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Ore. | 511|93|1994}} | Commerce Clause |
| J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B. | 511|127|1994}} | peremptory jury challenges based on sex violate equal protection clause |
| Central Bank of Denver v. First Interstate Bank of Denver | 511|164|1994}} | private plaintiffs may not maintain an aiding and abetting lawsuit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
| Landgraf v. USI Film Products | 511|244|1994}} | retroactive application of statutory amendments effective while cases are pending in court |
| C&A Carbone, Inc v. Town of Clarkstown | 511|383|1994}} | Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Waters v. Churchill | 511|661|1994}} | Due process rights of public employees in workplace when alleging violations of First Amendment rights |
| PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County v. Washington Department of Ecology | 511|700|1994}} | interpretation of §401 of the Clean Water Act |
| Farmer v. Brennan | 511|825|1994}} | civil liability under the Eighth Amendment for rape of a transgender prison inmate |
| Dolan v. City of Tigard | 512|374|1994}} | Fifth Amendment takings clause |
| Turner Broadcasting v. Federal Communications Commission | 512|622|1994}} | upholding must-carry rules against cable television provider's First Amendment challenge |
| Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet | 512|687|1994}} | school district coinciding with religious community |
| Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc. | 512|753|1994}} | first amendment, restrictions on abortion protests |
| United Mine Workers of America v. Bagwell | 512|821|1994}} | constitutional limitations on the contempt powers of courts |
| United States v. Shabani | 513|10|1994}} | elements of criminal conspiracy (i.e., requirement for an overt act) |
| United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc. | 513|64|1994}} | conviction under federal child pornography laws requires proof that the defendant knew the subjects were minors |
| Schlup v. Delo | 513|298|1995}} | Standard of proof required for a habeas corpus petition to reopen a case in light of new evidence of innocence |
| Arizona v. Evans | 514|1|1995}} | Exclusionary rule does not require suppressing evidence obtained through good-faith reliance on a search warrant that contains a clerical error |
| Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., Inc. | 514|159|1995}} | color trademarks are appropriate subject matter under the Lanham Act |
| Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. | 514|211|1995}} | separation of powers and finality of judgments |
| McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission | 514|334|1995}} | anonymous campaign literature under the First Amendment |
| United States v. Lopez | 514|549|1995}} | interstate commerce, gun-free school zones |
| U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton | 514|779|1995}} | preventing states from enacting term limits to the US House and Senate |
| First Options v. Kaplan | 514|938|1995}} | independent judicial review of arbitration clause |
| Adarand Constructors v. Peña | 515|200|1995}} | constitutionality of race-based set-asides (strict scrutiny test) |
| Witte v. United States | 515|389|1995}} | using "relevant conduct", as defined by the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, at sentencing does not violate double jeopardy principles |
| Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston | 515|557|1995}} | First Amendment freedom of association as applied to a private parade organizer seeking to exclude a group inconsistent with its stated message |
| Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc. | 515|618|1995}} | under the commercial speech doctrine of the First Amendment, states may forbid lawyers from directly soliciting personal injury cases for short periods of time after an accident or a disaster |
| Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton | 515|646|1995}} | constitutionality of public school drug testing; Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinnette | 515|753|1995}} | display of religious symbols on government property |
| Rosenberger v. University of Virginia | 515|819|1995}} | discrimination by state universities against student religious organizations |
| Miller v. Johnson | 515|900|1995}} | racial gerrymandering |
| Bailey v. United States | 516|137|1995}} | meaning of "use" in federal statute imposing a five-year prison sentence on anyone who "uses" a firearm during or in relation to a drug crime or a crime of violence |
| Lotus Dev. Corp. v. Borland Int'l, Inc. | 516|233|1995}} | scope of software copyrights |
| Behrens v. Pelletier | 516|299|1996}} | appeal over ruling on qualified immunity |
| Hercules, Inc. v. United States | 516|417|1996}} | liability for producing Agent Orange |
| Bennis v. Michigan | 516|442|1996}} | held that innocent owner defense is not constitutionally mandated by Fourteenth Amendment Due Process in cases of civil forfeiture |
| Seminole Tribe v. Florida | 517|44|1996}} | Article I and the 11th Amendment |
| Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. | 517|370|1996}} | claim construction of patents |
| 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. State of Rhode Island | 517|484|1996}} | restrictions on commercial speech |
| BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore | 517|559|1996}} | whether punitive damages are limited by substantive due process; 14th Amendment |
| Smiley v. Citibank | 517|735|1996}} | Credit card late fees can be considered interest and thus not subject to regulation by states other than those of bank's location when charged by national banks. |
| Romer v. Evans | 517|620|1996}} | equal protection limitation on forbidding elimination of discrimination on the basis of homosexuality |
| Jaffee v. Redmond | 518|1|1996}} | federal evidentiary privilege for medical confidentiality |
| Gasperini v. Center For Humanities, Inc. | 518|415|1996}} | 7th Amendment, modern interpretation of the Erie doctrine |
| United States v. Virginia | 518|515|1996}} | separate but equal gender discrimination |
| Ohio v. Robinette | 519|33|1996}} | informing motorists that a traffic stop has ended and the motorist is "free to go" is not required under the Fourth Amendment |
| Caterpillar, Inc. v. Lewis | 519|61|1996}} | diversity of citizenship must exist at the time of entry of judgment |
| M.L.B. v. S.L.J. | 519|102|1996}} | states must provide transcripts to poor litigants wishing to appeal adverse parental termination decisions |
| Old Chief v. United States | 519|172|1996}} | admitting evidence of prior convictions and the danger of "unfair prejudice" under Rule 403 of the Federal Rules of Evidence |
| Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York | 519|357|1997}} | protesters at abortion clinics |
| Auer v. Robbins | 519|452|1997}} | FLSA and overtime pay of police officers |
| Warner-Jenkinson Company, Inc. v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co. | 520|17|1997}} | patent law, doctrine of equivalents |
| Clinton v. Jones | 520|681|1997}} | Executive privilege and immunity |
| Agostini v. Felton | 521|203|1997}} | reexamination of Establishment Clause jurisprudence as it applies schools |
| Kansas v. Hendricks | 521|346|1997}} | procedures for involuntary indefinite civil commitment of dangerous persons |
| City of Boerne v. Flores | 521|507|1997}} | scope of Congressional enforcement power under § 5 of the 14th Amendment |
| Washington v. Glucksberg | 521|702|1997}} | constitutionality of state law forbidding assisted suicide |
| Vacco v. Quill | 521|793|1997}} | right to die and assisted suicide |
| Raines v. Byrd | 521|811|1997}} | line item veto, legal standing; redirects to Clinton v. City of New York |
| Printz, Sheriff/Coroner, Ravalli County, Montana v. United States | 521|898|1997}} | background checks before purchasing handguns |
| Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union | 521|844|1997}} | free speech, obscenity, CDA |
| State Oil Co. v. Khan | 522|3|1997}} | rule of reason applied to vertical maximum price fixing, overturned Albrecht v. Herald Co. |
| Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government | 522|520|1998}} | native rights over tribal lands |
| NCUA v. First National Bank & Trust | 522|479|1998}} | intent of Congress w.r.t. the Federal Credit Union Act of 1934 |
| Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach | 523|26|1998}} | pretrial procedures in multi-district litigation |
| Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services | 523|75|1998}} | applicability of sexual harassment laws to same sex harassment |
| Quality King Distributors Inc., v. L'anza Research International Inc. | 523|135|1998}} | application of first-sale doctrine of U.S. copyright law to reimported goods |
| Almendarez-Torres v. United States | 523|224|1998}} | prior convictions used to enhance a sentence need not be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt |
| Feltner v. Columbia Pictures Television, Inc. | 523|340|1998}} | Seventh Amendment right to jury trial in a copyright infringement case |
| Breard v. Greene | 523|371|1998}} | criminal defendant could not raise a defense under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations on federal habeas corpus review |
| Miller v. Albright | 523|420|1998}} | citizenship of a child born outside the United States to a citizen father and an alien mother |
| Stewart v. Martinez-Villareal | 523|637|1998}} | proper timing of a claim under Ford v. Wainwright, regarding competency to be executed, in federal habeas proceedings |
| Kiowa Tribe of Okla. v. Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. | 523|751|1998}} | an Indian tribe is entitled to sovereign immunity to contract lawsuits, whether made on or off the reservation |
| County of Sacramento v. Lewis | 523|833|1998}} | liability of police under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for causing death during high-speed chases |
| Federal Election Commission v. Akins | 524|11|1998}} | standing conferred by statute |
| United States v. Bajakajian | 524|321|1998}} | excessive fines |
| Swidler & Berlin v. United States | 524|399|1998}} | death of an attorney's client does not terminate the attorney–client privilege |
| Clinton v. City of New York | 524|417|1998}} | constitutionality of the Line Item Veto |
| Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel | 524|498|1998}} | Substantive Due Process, Economic Liberties |
| National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley | 524|569|1998}} | 1st amendment, government funding |
| Bragdon v. Abbott | 524|624|1998}} | application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to an asymptomatic HIV patient |
| Marquez v. Screen Actors Guild Inc. | 525|33|1998}} | union shop contracts |
| Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc. | 525|55|1998}} | on-sale bar of United States patent law |
| Knowles v. Iowa | 525|113|1998}} | search subsequent to a traffic citation without consent |
| Department of Commerce et al. v. United States House of Representatives et al. | 525|316|1999}} | Census figures adjusted for undercount based on sampling may not be used for Congressional apportionment |
| Holloway v. United States | 526|1|1999}} | federal carjacking statute applies to carjacking crimes committed by defendants with the "conditional intent" of harming drivers who resist the highjacker. |
| Federal Republic of Germany v. United States | 526|111|1999}} | application of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations to death penalty cases |
| Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael | 526|137|1999}} | non-scientists as expert witnesses in federal trials |
| Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians | 526|172|1999}} | usufructuary rights of Native Americans on certain lands |
| Jones v. United States | 526|227|1999}} | subsections of federal carjacking statute define separate crimes subject to Sixth Amendment jury trial requirement |
| Wyoming v. Houghton | 526|295|1999}} | warrantless search of a passenger's container capable of holding the object of a search for which there is probable cause is not justified under the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Aguirre-Aguirre | 526|415|1999}} | application of Chevron deference standard to Board of Immigration Appeals actions |
| Saenz v. Roe | 526|489|1999}} | welfare benefits to new state citizens and the right to travel |
| Hunt v. Cromartie | 526|541|1999}} | gerrymandering |
| Chicago v. Morales | 527|41|1999}} | loitering as gang activity |
| Olmstead v. L.C. | 527|581|1999}} | undue institutionalization of mental patients violates Americans With Disabilities Act |
| Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank | 527|627|1999}} | sovereign immunity of the States |
| College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board | 527|666|1999}} | sovereign immunity of the States |
| Alden v. Maine | 527|706|1999}} | sovereign immunity of the States |
| Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents | 528|62|2000}} | Congress's enforcement powers under the Fourteenth Amendment do not extend to the abrogation of state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment where the discrimination is rationally based on age |
| Illinois v. Wardlow | 528|119|2000}} | reasonable suspicion for a Terry stop |
| Reno v. Condon | 528|141|2000}} | upholding the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 against a Tenth Amendment challenge |
| Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. | 528|167|2000}} | standing, mootness, "voluntary cessation" |
| Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC | 528|377|2000}} | campaign contributions to state political parties |
| Rice v. Cayetano | 528|495|2000}} | race-based voting restrictions for state government offices |
| FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. | 529|120|2000}} | administrative agency power over an area heavily regulated by Congress |
| Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth | 529|217|2000}} | compulsory student fees to support political campus groups; 1st Amendment |
| Christensen v. Harris County | 529|576|2000}} | county's policy of requiring that employees schedule time off so that they do not accrue time off was not prohibited by the Fair Labor Standards Act |
| United States v. Morrison | 529|598|2000}} | limits of Congress's power under the commerce clause |
| United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group | 529|803|2000}} | scrambling of adult material on cable channels; 1st Amendment |
| United States v. Hubbell | 530|27|2000}} | criminal charges based on subpeonaed documents |
| Troxel v. Granville | 530|57|2000}} | fundamental rights of parents to raise their children, third-party visitation rights |
| Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe | 530|290|2000}} | prayer in public schools |
| Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council | 530|363|2000}} | federal preemption of state foreign trade regulation |
| Dickerson v. United States | 530|428|2000}} | legislative abrogation of Miranda right |
| Apprendi v. New Jersey | 530|466|2000}} | Juries must decide all elements of a crime beyond reasonable doubt |
| California Democratic Party v. Jones | 530|567|2000}} | freedom of association and political primary elections |
| Boy Scouts of America v. Dale | 530|640|2000}} | right of free association, homosexuality |
| Stenberg v. Carhart | 530|914|2000}} | "late term" or "partial birth" abortions |
| City of Indianapolis v. Edmond | 531|32|2000}} | use of dogs at random traffic stops |
| Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. Mine Workers | 531|57|2000}} | public policy considerations do not require courts to refuse to enforce an arbitration award ordering an employer to reinstate an employee truck driver who twice tested positive for marijuana |
| Bush v. Gore | 531|98|2000}} | vote recounts in presidential election, the only court decision to determine the winner of a presidential election |
| Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass’n | 531|288|2001}} | expansion of state action to include "public entwinement" |
| Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett | 531|356|2001}} | Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity and Equal Protection in a disability case |
| Whitman v. American Trucking Associations, Inc. | 531|457|2001}} | determining the scope of the EPA's power to set air quality standards |
| Semtek International Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp. | 531|497|2001}} | res judicata effect of federal judgments in state court |
| TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc. | 532|23|2001}} | trademark protection for patented designs |
| Ferguson v. City of Charleston | 532|67|2001}} | private hospitals that test pregnant women for drugs without their consent and then turn the results over to the police violate the Fourth Amendment |
| Egelhoff v. Egelhoff | 532|141|2001}} | preemption of state law by ERISA |
| Texas v. Cobb | 532|162|2001}} | Sixth Amendment right to counsel is "offense specific," it does not necessarily extend to offenses that are "factually related" to those that have actually been charged |
| Easley v. Cromartie | 532|234|2001}} | racial discrimination, gerrymandering |
| Alexander v. Sandoval | 532|275|2001}} | no private right of action for disparate impact under Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Atwater v. City of Lago Vista | 532|318|2001}} | - |
| C & L Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizen Band Potawatomi Tribe of Okla. | 532|411|2001}} | Tribal sovereign immunity, waiver by contract to arbitration |
| Cooper Industries v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. | 532|424|2001}} | The correct standard of review to use on appeals for excessive punitive damages |
| Rogers v. Tennessee | 532|451|2001}} | due process, "year and a day rule" in murder cases |
| United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative | 532|483|2001}} | necessity defense under the Controlled Substances Act for medical use of marijuana |
| Bartnicki v. Vopper | 532|514|2001}} | First Amendment and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act |
| PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin | 532|661|2001}} | the Americans with Disabilities Act allows reasonable accommodations of handicaps in professional golf |
| Kyllo v. United States | 533|27|2001}} | defining 'search' under the 4th Amendment with respect to heat sensors |
| Good News Club v. Milford Central School | 533|98|2001}} | free speech, establishment clause |
| Saucier v. Katz | 533|194|2001}} | qualified immunity of a police officer to a civil rights case brought through a Bivens action |
| United States v. Mead Corp. | 533|218|2001}} | Court declines to extend Chevron doctrine to U.S. Customs Service decisions |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr | 533|289|2001}} | The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, and their effect on habeas corpus petitions |
| New York Times Co. v. Tasini | 533|483|2001}} | copyright in databases |
| Palazzolo v. Rhode Island | 533|606|2001}} | Fifth Amendment takings clause |
| Correctional Services Corp. v. Malesko | 534|61|2001}} | civil rights lawsuits against privately run prisons |
| Chickasaw Nation v. United States | 534|84|2001}} | Indian tribes are liable for Federal taxes on gambling revenue |
| United States v. Knights | 534|112|2001}} | warrantless searches of probationers |
| Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams | 534|184|2002}} | meaning of the phrase "substantially impairs" under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 |
| Kansas v. Crane | 534|407|2002}} | as-applied challenge to Kansas' involuntary indefinite civil commitment of dangerous persons, different result from Kansas v. Hendricks |
| Owasso Independent School District v. Falvo | 534|426|2001}} | peer grading does not violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act |
| Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition | 535|234|2002}} | First Amendment protection for simulated child pornography |
| Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency | 535|302|2002}} | substantive due process, takings clause |
| City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books | 535|425|2002}} | zoning of adult bookstores |
| Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co. | 535|722|2002}} | prosecution history estoppel |
| McKune v. Lile | 536|24|2002}} | mandatory treatment for imprisoned sex offenders does not violate the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination |
| Watchtower Society v. Village of Stratton | 536|150|2002}} | door-to-door religious advocacy and the First Amendment |
| Gonzaga University v. Doe | 536|273|2002}} | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act does not create a right which is enforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| Atkins v. Virginia | 536|304|2002}} | imposing the death penalty on the mentally retarded; overruling Penry v. Lynaugh |
| Rush Prudential HMO, Inc. v. Moran | 536|355|2002}} | no preemption of Illinois insurance statute under ERISA |
| Utah v. Evans | 536|452|2002}} | use of statistical sampling in the decennial census |
| Harris v. United States | 536|545|2002}} | 18|924}} |
| Ring v. Arizona | 536|584|2002}} | Sixth Amendment requires that aggravating factors necessary for eligibility for a death sentence must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt; overruling Walton v. Arizona in part |
| Zelman v. Simmons-Harris | 536|639|2002}} | constitutionality of school voucher program |
| Hope v. Pelzer | 536|730|2002}} | use of the hitching post in prisons is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment |
| Republican Party of Minnesota v. White | 536|765|2002}} | election of state judges, freedom of speech |
| Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls | 536|822|2002}} | constitutionality of drug testing of high school students who participate in competitive interscholastic activities |
| Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania | 537|101|2003}} | the Double Jeopardy Clause does not forbid seeking the death penalty after an acquittal on first-degree murder charges |
| Barnhart v. Peabody Coal Co. | 537|149|2003}} | Social Security benefit assignment for coal industry workers |
| Eldred v. Ashcroft | 537|186|2003}} | extending the duration of the term of copyright under U.S. law |
| Scheidler v. National Organization for Women | 537|393|2003}} | applying RICO to activities of abortion clinic protesters |
| Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue, Inc. | 537|418|2003}} | claims of trademark dilution require proof of actual dilution |
| United States v. White Mountain Apache Tribe | 537|465|2003}} | the Federal government has a duty to maintain land held in trust for an Indian tribe |
| United States v. Navajo Nation | 537|488|2003}} | compensation for modification a lease of mining rights to land on an Indian reservation |
| Connecticut Dept. of Public Safety v. Doe | 538|1|2003}} | holding that Connecticut's sex offender registration statute did not violate due process clause |
| Ewing v. California | 538|11|2003}} | California's Three strikes law is not cruel and unusual punishment |
| Lockyer v. Andrade | 538|63|2003}} | California's Three strikes law is not cruel and unusual punishment |
| Smith v. Doe | 538|84|2003}} | retroactive application of sex offender registry program is not an ex post facto law |
| Virginia v. Black | 538|343|2003}} | constitutionality of laws forbidding cross burning for purposes of intimidation |
| State Farm v. Campbell | 538|408|2003}} | due process limits on punitive damages |
| Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs | 538|721|2003}} | Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 validly abrogated state sovereign immunity |
| Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. | 539|23|2003}} | "reverse passing off" and trademark cannot extend rights to previously copyrighted works now in the public domain |
| Entergy Louisiana, Inc. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission | 539|39|2003}} | federal preemption of FERC-approved tariff over state agency order |
| Sell v. United States | 539|166|2003}} | Forced psychiatric medication by lower federal courts is permissible under some circumstances |
| United States v. American Library Association | 539|194|2003}} | Congressional requirement that libraries install web-filtering software held not to violate First Amendment |
| Gratz v. Bollinger | 539|244|2003}} | racial discrimination, affirmative action, equal protection |
| Grutter v. Bollinger | 539|306|2003}} | racial discrimination, affirmative action, equal protection |
| American Insurance Association v. Garamendi | 539|396|2003}} | California state insurance statute struck down for interfering with Presidential foreign policy |
| Wiggins v. Smith | 539|510|2003}} | ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing |
| Lawrence v. Texas | 539|558|2003}} | finding laws restricting sodomy between consenting adults unconstitutional; overruling Bowers v. Hardwick |
| McConnell v. FEC | 540|93|2003}} | First Amendment; political speech |
| Verizon Communications v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP | 540|398|2004}} | the Sherman Antitrust Act and requirements of telecommunications companies under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 |
| Illinois v. Lidster | 540|419|2004}} | accident investigation checkpoints do not violate the Fourth Amendment |
| Fellers v. United States | 540|519|2004}} | once judicial proceedings have been initiated against a defendant, police officers cannot elicit information from the defendant without the defendant's counsel present |
| Doe v. Chao | 540|614|2004}} | governmental violation of privacy rights |
| Locke v. Davey | 540|712|2004}} | a religion clauses case upholding a Washington state scholarship program which excluded funding devotional studies. |
| Crawford v. Washington | 541|36|2004}} | prior testimony exception to hearsay in criminal trials, Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses; abrogating Ohio v. Roberts |
| National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish | 541|157|2004}} | availability of death-scene images under the Freedom of Information Act over the objection of family members; investigation into the suicide of Vince Foster |
| United States v. Flores-Montano | 541|149|2004}} | reasonableness of removing a gas tank from a vehicle crossing the border under the Fourth Amendment |
| Vieth v. Jubelirer | 541|267|2004}} | justiciability of suit to enjoin gerrymandering |
| Tennessee v. Lane | 541|509|2004}} | Congress's power under the 14th amendment, section 5; Americans With Disabilities Act |
| Nelson v. Campbell | 541|637|2004}} | challenging lethal injection protocols under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| Republic of Austria v. Altmann | 541|677|2004}} | retroactive application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act |
| Central Laborers' Pension Fund v. Heinz | 541|739|2004}} | an ambiguity in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
| Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen | 541|752|2004}} | Presidential foreign affairs and foreign trade actions |
| Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow | 542|1|2004}} | validity of “under God” in Pledge of Allegiance; standing to bring suit on another’s behalf |
| United States v. Dominguez Benitez | 542|74|2004}} | appellate review standard for violations of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure governing the taking of guilty pleas |
| Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada | 542|177|2004}} | constitutionality of state law requiring citizens to identify themselves to police |
| Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila | 542|200|2004}} | ERISA's effect on federal jurisdiction of cases involving utilization review |
| Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 542|241|2004}} | foreign tribunals |
| Blakely v. Washington | 542|296|2004}} | jury must find all elements of a criminal sentence beyond a reasonable doubt |
| Schriro v. Summerlin | 542|348|2004}} | retroactively applying the rule set in Ring v. Arizona that a jury must find the aggravating factors in a capital murder case |
| Rumsfeld v. Padilla | 542|426|2004}} | detention of American citizens |
| Rasul v. Bush | 542|466|2004}} | jurisdiction over foreign nationals detained in Guantanamo Bay |
| Hamdi v. Rumsfeld | 542|507|2004}} | detention of American citizens |
| Missouri v. Seibert | 542|600|2004}} | Missouri's practice of interrogating suspects without reading them a Miranda warning, then reading them the warning and asking them to repeat their confession is unconstitutional |
| Leocal v. Ashcroft | 543|1|2004}} | DUI is not a "crime of violence" requiring deportation of an alien |
| Koons Buick, Inc. v. Nigh | 543|50|2004}} | Truth in Lending Act imposes a $1000 limit on statutory damages for violations of the Act involving personal-property loans. |
| KP Permanent Make-Up, Inc. v. Lasting Impression I, Inc. | 543|111|2004}} | fair use defense to a trademark infringement action does not require proof that there is no likelihood of confusing the marks |
| United States v. Booker | 543|220|2005}} | applying Blakely v. Washington to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines |
| Clark v. Martinez | 543|371|2005}} | detention of aliens awaiting deportation |
| Illinois v. Caballes | 543|405|2005}} | 4th Amendment search and seizure |
| Commissioner v. Banks | 543|426|2005}} | Whether or not the portion of a money judgment or settlement paid to a taxpayer's attorney under a contingent-fee agreement is income to the taxpayer for federal income tax purposes. |
| Johnson v. California | 543|499|2005}} | proper standard for reviewing constitutional race-discrimination claim in sorting prison inmates |
| Roper v. Simmons | 543|551|2005}} | imposing the death penalty on juvenile murderers; overruling Stanford v. Kentucky |
| Cherokee Nation of Okla. v. Leavitt | 543|631|2005}} | a Federal contract with an Indian tribe is binding, even if Congress did not appropriate funds |
| Tenet v. Doe | 544|1|2005}} | enforceability of contracts between the government and spies (undercover CIA agents) |
| Shepard v. United States | 544|13|2005}} | proving prior convictions obtained through guilty pleas under Taylor v. United States |
| City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y. | 544|197|2005}} | the repurchase of tribal land by an Indian tribe does not restore tribal sovereignty to the land |
| Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp. | 544|280|2005}} | state court decisions and the application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine |
| Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Broudo | 544|336|2005}} | standard for pleading loss causation in a securities fraud claim |
| Small v. United States | 544|385|2005}} | resolution of split appeals court decisions on inclusion of foreign courts in the term "any court" |
| Granholm v. Heald | 544|460|2005}} | interstate shipment of wine under the Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Deck v. Missouri | 544|622|2005}} | shackling a defendant during the penalty phase of a capital murder trial |
| Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States | 544|696|2005}} | legality of document destruction in the face of likely government investigation |
| Cutter v. Wilkinson | 544|709|2005}} | religious freedom for prison inmates |
| Tory v. Cochran | 544|734|2005}} | defamation, enjoinment of speech; continuity of injunction after death |
| Gonzales v. Raich | 545|1|2005}} | legitimacy of using marijuana as a medicine, and power of the federal government to regulate intrastate activities |
| Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd. | 545|119|2005}} | applicability of the Americans with Disabilities Act to foreign-held companies |
| Merck KGaA v. Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd. | 545|193|2005}} | applicability of patents in preclinical studies |
| Wilkinson v. Austin | 545|209|2005}} | due process requirements for placing prisoners in Supermax prisons |
| Miller-El v. Dretke | 545|231|2005}} | clarification of Batson v. Kentucky standard for peremptory challenges |
| Kelo v. City of New London | 545|469|2005}} | eminent domain; takings of private property for private development |
| Van Orden v. Perry | 545|677|2005}} | legality of a Ten Commandments display |
| Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales | 545|748|2005}} | liability of police departments under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failing to respond to domestic violence calls |
| McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky | 545|844|2005}} | constitutionality of a Ten Commandments display; potential reformulation of the Lemon test |
| MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. | 545|913|2005}} | Copyright infringement in P2P file-sharing; re-examination of Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios |
| National Cable and Telecomm. Assn v. Brand X Internet Services | 545|967|2005}} | allowing small internet service providers to lease bandwidth from privately owned coaxial cable lines |