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Essential Supreme Court Decisions
Essential Supreme Court Decisions Summaries of Leading Cases in U.S. Constitutional Law Fifteenth Edition
JOHN R. VILE
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC.
Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Plymouth, UK
Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowmanlittlefield.com Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United Kingdom Copyright © 2010 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vile, John R. Essential Supreme Court decisions : summaries of leading cases in U.S. constitutional law / John R. Vile. — 15th ed. p. cm. Rev. ed. of: Summaries of leading cases on the Constitution / Joseph F. Menez and John R. Vile. 14th ed. 2004. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4422-0384-6 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4422-0385-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4422-0386-0 (electronic) 1. Constitutional law—United States—Digests. I. Menez, Joseph Francis, 1917– Summaries of leading cases on the Constitution. II. Title. KF4547.4.V55 2010 342.7300264—dc22 2010008375
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Contents
Preface to the Fifteenth Edition
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Acknowledgments
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This Is Our Supreme Court 1
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Article I: The Legislative Branch Powers 2 Commerce 2 Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) 2 Brown v. Maryland (1827) 3 Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1851) 4 United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895) 5 In re Debs (1895) 6 Champion v. Ames (1903) 7 The Shreveport Case (1914) 8 Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) 9 Stafford v. Wallace (1922) 10 Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936) 11 Kentucky Whip and Collar Co. v. Illinois Central R.R. Co. (1937) 12 West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937) 13 [United States v. Carolene Products Company (1938)]* [United States v. F. W. Darby Lumber Co. (1941)] Wickard v. Filburn (1942) 14 * Brackets denote related cases found in other chapters of this book.
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United States v. Southeastern Underwriters Association (1944) 15 Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964) United States v. Lopez (1995) 17 Jones v. United States (2000) 18 [United States v. Morrison (2000)] Gonzales v. Raich (2005) 19
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Delegation of Powers 21 J.W. Hampton, Jr. & Co. v. United States (1928) 21 Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan (1935) 22 Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935) 23 United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936) 24 Yakus v. United States (1944) 25 Mistretta v. United States (1989) 26 Implied Powers 28 McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) 28 McGrain v. Daugherty (1927) 29 Watkins v. United States (19