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Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United
States: Constitutional Law
General Editors: Gerhard Casper and Kathleen M. Sullivan
The Landmark series is an easy-to-use resource
for the study of the entire spectrum of American
life presented before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Expertly selected by distinguished legal scholars, the cases presented in Landmark Briefs and
Arguments vividly show the Court as a forum for
debate on a multitude of divisive issues for over
200 years.
More than a legal resource, the Landmark series is a basic
research source, a key to understanding the Supreme Court
and its role in American government and society. For studies of
the contemporary issues of longstanding controversy or constitutional interest, the Landmark series reveals the unique and
historic nature of the Supreme Court cases that have shaped and
reshaped American life and law.
Virtually every significant topic in American judicial history is
represented in Landmark Briefs and Arguments. Topics covered
in recently available editions include freedom of speech issues,
punitive damages, abortion law, right to die, separation of church
and state, affirmative action, issues of religious freedom, racial
discrimination, and more.
Other important topics in American history covered in the
series include banking, federal interstate commerce powers,
capital punishment, civil rights, confidentiality of news sources,
due process, campaign finance, equal protection, regulatory
activities, federal interstate commerce powers, foreign affairs,
Table of contents for Parents Involved in Community Schools v.
Seattle School District. Each Landmark volume retains the pagination of the original documents, but LexisNexis also adds continuous
pagination in the margins of each page, reflected in this table of
contents.
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immigration, judicial review, housing, legislative apportionment, Native American issues, public lands, obscenity, powers
of Congress, presidential powers, right to counsel, school busing,
searches and seizures, self-incrimination, sex discrimination,
states’ rights, terrorism, and wiretapping.
made by the opposing attorney or addressing concerns voiced
from the bench.
The pagination of the original documents has been retained.
Additionally continuous pagination has been added in the margins of each page.
Deluxe editions reproduced from original sources
The Landmark series consists of hardbound volumes with goldstamped lettering on the spine, and containing approximately
750 pages. A table of contents lists the cases included in the
volume and the briefs and arguments presented in each case.
The briefs are facsimile reproductions of the briefs that were filed
at the Supreme Court and contain the plaintiffs’ and respondents’
main arguments, plus the amicus curiae arguments. Except for
the omission of appendices and certificates of service, they have
been printed in their entirety. The sources of the oral arguments
are the transcripts at the Supreme Court Library.
In addition to the briefs and oral arguments, Landmark includes
petitions for writ of certiorari, which request the Court to hear a
case; supplemental memoranda submitted to update or expand
on a brief; motions to affirm, requesting oral responses to points
Cases selected by distinguished legal scholars
Gerhard Casper and Kathleen M. Sullivan are the general editors for the Landmark series.
Gerhard Casper, named president of Stanford University in
1992, also holds appointment there as a professor of law. He
came to Stanford from the University of Chicago, where he
taught law since 1996, serving as dean of the law school for
eleven years and as provost of the university since 1989. From
1977 to 1991 he was coeditor of The Supreme Court report.
Kathleen M. Sullivan, Dean of Stanford Law School and
Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Stanley Morrison
Professor of Law. She came to Stanford from Harvard
University, where she taught constitutional law since 1984.
From 1982 through 1984, Dr. Sullivan held a litigation practice
in Boston (appellate constitutional law and criminal defense).
Cases covered from 1991 through 2002 include the following:
Powers v. Ohio (1991)
Bush v. Vera (1996)
Reno v. Condon (2000)
International Society for Krishna
Consciousness, Inc. v. Lee (1992)
BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore
(1996)
Dickerson v. United States (2000)
United States v. Fordice (1992)
Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996)
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)
Georgia v. McCollum (1992)
Vacco v. Quill (1997)
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern
Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992)
Clinton v. Jones (1997)
Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing
Board (2000)
United States v. Padilla (1993)
Shaw v. Reno (1993)
Sullivan v. Louisiana (1993)
Nixon v. United States (1993)
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v.
Federal Communications Commission
(1994)
Honda Motor Company, Ltd. V. Oberg
(1994)
Barclays Bank PLC v. Franchise Tax Board
of California (1994)
McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission
(1995)
Rubin v. Coors Brewing Company (1995)
Missouri v. Jenkins (1995)
Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian,
and Bisexual Group (1995)
Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union
(1997)
Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of
Western New York (1997)
National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley
(1998)
Clinton v. City of NewYork (1998)
Federal Election Commission v. Atkins
(1998)
Campbell v. Louisiana (1998)
Miller v. Albright (1998)
Stenberg v. Carhart (2000)
Legal Services Corporation v. Velazquez
(2001)
Zadvydas v. Davis (2001)
Ashcroft v. Kim Ho Ma (2001)
Federal Election Commission v. Colorado
Republican Federal Campaign
Committee (2001)
Hunt v. Cromartie (2001)
Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties
Union (2002)
College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid
Postsecondary Education Expense
Board (1999)
Watchtower Bible and Tract Societies of
New York v. Village of Stratton (2002)
Buckley v. American Constitutional Law
Foundation, Inc. (1999)
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002)
Mitchell v. Helms (2000)
Santa Fe Independent School District v.
Doe (2000)
Atkins v. Virginia (2002)
Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Regional
Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional
Planning Commission (2002)
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Cases covered from 2003 through 2007:
Connecticut Department of Public Safety
v. Doe (2003)
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)
Randall v. Sorrell (2006)
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
Elk Grove Unified School District v.
Newdow (2004)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
Granholm v. Heald (2005)
League of United Latin American Citizens
v. Perry (2006)
Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)
Gonzales v. Raich (2005)
Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)
Virginia v. Black (2003)
Johnson v. Livestock Marketing
Association (2005)
Massachusetts v. Environmental
Protection Agency (2007)
McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky
(2005)
Meredith v. Jefferson Country Board of
Education (2007)
Gonzales v. Oregon (2006)
Parents Involved in Community Schools
v. Seattle School District (2007)
United States v. American Library
Association, Inc. (2003)
Eldred v. Ashcroft (2003)
McConnell v. Federal Election
Commission (2003)
Cheney v. U.S. District Court (2004)
Rumsfield v. Padilla (2004)
Rasul v. Bush (2004)
Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita
Beneficente Uniao Do Vegetal (2006)
Philip Morris v. Williams (2007)
Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic
and Institutional Rights (2006)
A sampling of the cases covered for 1793 to 1978 include:
Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.
(1937)
McCullough v. Maryland (1819)
Erie Railroad v. Tompkins (1938)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Thornhill v. Alabama (1940)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
U.S. v. Classic (1941)
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)
Slaughterhouse cases (1873)
Hirabayashi v. U.S. (1943)
U.S. v. Cruickshank (1876)
Smith v. Allwright (1944)
Civil Rights cases (1883)
Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
Duncan v. Kahanamoku (1946)
In re Debs (1895)
U.S. v. United Mine Workers (1947)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
Lochner v. New York (1905)
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v.
Sawyer (1952)
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Bailey v. Alabama (1911)
Buchanan v. Warley (1917)
Schenck v. U.S. (1919)
Debs v. U.S. (1919)
Moore v. Dempsey (1923)
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954 and
1955)
Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn (1975)
Virginia Private School cases (1976)
Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
National League of Cities v. Usery
(1976)
Nixon v. Herndon (1927)
Capital Punishment cases (1976)
Gong Lum v. Rice (1927)
Whalen v. Roe (1977)
Nixon v. Condon (1932)
Maher v. Roe (1977)
Powell v. Alabama (1932)
Poelker v. Doe (1977)
Gold Clause cases (1935)
Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman
(1977)
Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley
Authority (1936)
Regents fo the University of California v.
Bakke (1978)
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937)
FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (1978)
Example of one of the amicus briefs reproduced in
McFarland v. Jefferson County Public Schools. The
Landmark series consists of exact facsimile reproductions of the briefs that were filed at the Supreme
Court.
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1979 through 1990 cases include:
Hutchinson v. Proxmire (1979)
Keeton v. Hustler (1984)
Bowen v. Kendrick (1988)
Smith v. Maryland (1979)
Los Angeles City Council v. Taxpayers for
Vincent (1984)
Watson v. Fort Worth Bank (1988)
Gannett Co. v. DePasquale (1979)
Columbus Board of Education v. Penick
(1979)
FCC v. League of Women Voters (1984)
New Energy Company of Indiana v.
Limbach (1988)
Regan v. Wald (1984)
Boos v. Barry (1988)
United Steelworkers of America v. Weber
(1979)
Devine v. NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, Inc. (1985)
Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988)
Consolidated Edison v. Public Service
Commission (1980)
Harris v. McRae (1980)
Federal Election Commission v.
National Conservative Political Action
Committee (1985)
Fullilove v. Lutznick (1980)
Aguilar v. Felton (1985)
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
(1989)
Chandler v. Florida (1981)
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan
Transity Authority (1985)
National Treasury Employees Union v.
Von Raab
Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser
(1986)
City of Richmond v. Croson (1989)
Kissinger v. Halperin (1981)
Heffron v. International Society for
Krishna Consciousness (1981)
Crawford v. Los Angeles Board of
Education (1982)
NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. (1982)
Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982)
Bob Jones University v. U.s. (9183)
Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. v.
Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue
(1983)
City of Akron v. Akron Center for
Reproductive Health, Inc. (1983)
Planned Parenthood Assn. v. Ashcroft
(1983)
INS v. Delgado (1984)
Roberts v. U.S. Jaycees (1984)
Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. (1986)
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
First English Evangelical Lutheran Church
of Glendale v. County of Los Angeles,
California (1987)
Keystone Bituminous Coal Association v.
DeBenedictis (1987)
McClesky v. Kemp (1987)
Saint Francis College v. Al-Khazraji (1987)
Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb (1987)
The Corporation of the Presiding Bishop
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints v. Amos (1987)
City of Lakewood v. Plain Dealer
Publishing Company (1988)
Lyng v. International Union, UAW (1988)
County of Allegheny v. ACLU Greater
Pittsburgh Chapter (1989)
Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive
Health (1990)
U.S. v. Eichmann (1990)
Swaggart Ministries v. Board of
Equalization of California (1990)
University of Pennsylvania v. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission
(1990)
Maryland v. Craig (1990)
Missouri v. Jenkins (1990)
Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC (1990)
Board of Airport Commissioners of Los
Angeles v. Jews for Jesus (1987)
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