Robert Heron Bork (1927–)
Noted jurist, author, and scholar, Robert Heron Bork was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1948 and a J.D. in 1953.
Read the full storyBoston Massacre Trial (1770)
Troops had been stationed in Boston and other cities in the colonies as a result of growing resistance by the colonists against imperial laws, especially the hated Townshend Acts.
Read the full storyBowen v. American Hospital Association, 476 U.S. 610 (1986)
Important rights and policies can be in tension when a governmental agency seeks to act on a child’s behalf and parental consent has not been obtained.
Read the full storyBowen v. Kendrick, 487 U.S. 589 (1988)
In Bowen v. Kendrick, the Court upheld the Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA) against an establishment clause challenge.
Read the full storyBowen v. Roy, 476 U.S. 693 (1986)
Pursuant to federal regulations requiring social security numbers for all dependent children, Pennsylvania authorities had stopped Aid to Dependent Families and Children benefits to Stephen Roy and Karen Miller and were also taking steps to reduce food stamps.
Read the full storyBowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986)
When a police officer came to serve an arrest warrant upon Michael Hardwick for a citation that Hardwick had already paid, the officer found Hardwick in his bedroom engaged in consensual oral sex with another man.
Read the full storyBoy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000)
The First Amendment right to free speech includes a right to associate for expressive purposes.
Read the full storyBoyd v. United States, 116 U.S. 616 (1886)
An agent of the customs department, referred to as a collector, seized thirty-five cases of plate glass in pursuance of customs law.
Read the full storyBoykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 242 (1969)
The central issue in the Boykin case was the responsibility of a criminal court to safeguard the rights of the accused.
Read the full storyBradfield v. Roberts, 175 U.S. 291 (1899)
Bradfield v. Roberts is the first of only two Supreme Court cases that have addressed whether government funding of faith-based human services programs is constitutional.
Read the full storyBrady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)
In Brady, the Supreme Court for the first time squarely recognized that the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause guarantees criminal defendants the right to be given favorable information in the possession of the prosecution or the police.
Read the full storyLouis Dembitz Brandeis (1856–1941)
An extremely effective lawyer and reformer in the Progressive era before Woodrow Wilson named him to the Supreme Court in 1916, Brandeis had very little if any contact with issues that would be identified as civil liberties.
Read the full storyBrandenburg Incitement Test
Even though the U.S. Constitution provides strong protections for speech, in a number of early decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court gave government broad authority to prosecute those who engage in speech advocating violence or illegal activity.
Read the full storyBrandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969)
This case originated in the state of Ohio where Clarence Brandenburg, a Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted, fined. . .
Read the full storyBranti v. Finkel, 445 U.S. 507 (1980)
When a newly appointed Democratic public defender discharged two assistant public defenders because they were Republicans, the discharged lawyers claimed that their First Amendment freedoms of belief and association were violated.
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