Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (1917)
A 1914 Louisville, Kentucky city ordinance prohibited blacks from buying houses on blocks where the majority of the residents where white, and at the same time, prohibited whites from buying houses on blocks where the majority of the residents were black.
Read the full storyBuck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
In 1924, the state of Virginia passed a law granting certain state hospitals the authority to sterilize patients deemed mentally defective.
Read the full storyBuckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976)
To appreciate the significance of Buckley v. Valeo, it is important to take a step back and consider the role of money in politics since the founding of the nation, but especially with the rise of the modern campaign in the twentieth century.
Read the full storyBullington v. Missouri, 451 U.S. 430 (1981)
Bullington was indicted and convicted of capital murder. Under Missouri law, this meant that he would receive either death or life imprisonment without eligibility for parole for fifty years.
Read the full storyBurdeau v. McDowell, 256 U.S. 465 (1921)
Following an internal investigation into unlawful conduct, Henry L. Doherty & Co. fired its employee, J.C. McDowell.
Read the full storyBurden of Proof: Overview
If the notion of civil rights or civil liberties entails some fundamental freedoms from governmental overreaching, one of the most telling but perhaps subtle expressions of a commitment to the preservation of civil liberties is found in the legal concept of burden of proof.
Read the full storyBurger Court (1969–1986)
The Burger Court was a transitional institution. It reflected the conflicting currents produced by the transition from the America of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to the America of Ronald Reagan and his successors.
Read the full storyWarren E. Burger (1907–1995)
Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger was the fifteenth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed in 1969 to the Supreme Court by President Nixon, Burger served for seventeen years until 1986.
Read the full storyEdmund Burke (1729–1797)
Edmund Burke, British statesman and political philosopher, and the ‘‘father’’ of modern conservatism, was born in Dublin on January 29, 1729. He was the son of a Protestant lawyer and a Roman Catholic mother.
Read the full storyBurks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1 (1978)
At the robbery trial of David Burks, the defendant presented three unchallenged witnesses testifying that he was insane. In response, the government presented two expert witnesses who did not express definite opinions.
Read the full storyJustice Harold Burton (1888–1964)
Harold Hitz Burton, mayor of Cleveland, senator from Ohio and associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court was born on June 22, 1888, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Read the full storyButler v. McKellar, 494 U.S. 407 (1990)
When the Supreme Court decides a case in a way that alters the constitutional rights available to a criminal defendant, can prisoners who have already completed their appeals benefit from that case through a petition for a writ of habeas corpus?
Read the full storyPierce Butler (1866–1939)
Pierce Butler, one of the most conservative justices ever to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, was born March 17, 1866, in a log cabin on a Minnesota farm.
Read the full storyByers v. Edmondson, 712 So.2d 681 (1999) (‘‘Natural Born Killers’’ Case)
The judgment rendered concerns the issue of whether the film Natural Born Killers is protected speech under the First Amendment, that is, should movie producers, directors, and studios be responsible for encouraging criminal behavior?
Read the full storyCable Television Regulation
Cable television regulation began in the late 1940s and 1950s primarily as a local matter. The first cable systems needed easements to construct facilities on public and private land.
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