Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665 (1972)
In Branzburg, the Supreme Court confronted an issue of continuing controversy: May journalists who are called to testify before grand juries protect the identities of their confidential sources?
Read the full storyBraswell v. United States, 487 U.S. 99 (1988)
The availability of the Fifth Amendment selfincrimination privilege to resist producing documents in response to a subpoena has depended on whether the government sought the records from an individual (or sole proprietorship) or from a larger business organization.
Read the full storyBray v. Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic, 506 U.S. 263 (1993)
In Bray v. Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic, the Supreme Court held that the anti-conspiracy provision of the 1871 Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3) . . .
Read the full storyBreithaupt v. Abram, 352 U.S. 432 (1957)
Breithaupt was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in New Mexico following an automobile collision resulting in three deaths.
Read the full storyBrewer v. Williams, 430 U.S. 387 (1977)
On Christmas Eve 1968, a ten-year-old child was abducted by Williams, a recent escapee from a mental hospital.
Read the full storyStephen Gerald Breyer (1938–)
Justice Stephen Breyer, a Massachusetts Democrat, was President Bill Clinton’s second and final appointment to the Court (following Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1993).
Read the full storyBroadcast Regulation
The history of broadcast regulation affords a unique civil liberties perspective because it is the sole example of a government agency created to supervise the press.
Read the full storyBrooks v. Tennessee, 406 U.S. 605 (1972)
In Brooks, the Supreme Court struck down a state statute requiring criminal defendants to testify, if at all, before any other defense witnesses take the stand.
Read the full storyBrotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Virginia ex rel. Virginia State Bar, 377 U.S. 1 (1964)
The legal profession has traditionally exhibited antipathy toward activities that could be perceived as encouraging litigation. It has also taken a dim view of nonlawyers providing legal advice.
Read the full storyBrown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring state-mandated school segregation unconstitutional, was perhaps the Court’s most important decision of the twentieth century.
Read the full storyBrown v. Mississippi, 279 U.S. 278 (1936)
In Brown v. Mississippi, the Supreme Court for the first time relied upon the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to exclude a confession from evidence in a state court.
Read the full storyLenny Bruce (1925–1966)
Lenny Bruce is often considered the most influential figure in modern comedy, a pioneer of the acerbic social satire that would dominate the genre in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Read the full storyWilliam Jennings Bryan (1860–1925)
Perhaps best known for his famous ‘‘Cross of Gold’’ speech, William Jennings Bryan had a public career lasting some thirty years.
Read the full storyAnita Bryant (1940–)
If the Stonewall riot was the event that galvanized the movement for gays’ civil rights, Anita Bryant was the personality that first embodied at the national level the opposition to those rights.
Read the full storyBuchanan v. Kentucky, 483 U.S. 402 (1987)
David Buchanan was indicted on capital murder charges for the rape and murder of Barbel Poore.
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