Debs v. United States, 249 U.S. 211 (1919)

Debtor’s Prisons

Declaration of Independence

Defamation and Free Speech

Defense of Marriage Act

Right to Present Defense

Defiance of the Court’s Ban on School Prayer

Defining Religion

DeJonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353 (1937)

Delaware v. Prouse, 440 U.S. 648 (1979)

Demonstrations and Sit-Ins

Denaturalization

Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, 433 U.S. 350 (1969)

Two recent law graduates opened a law practice, which they called the ‘‘Legal Clinic of Bates and O’Steen.’’

Bartnicki v. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001)

Plaintiffs, a union president and a chief negotiator, had a cellular phone conversation in which threats were made against school board members.

Bartkus v. Illinois, 359 U.S. 121 (1959)

In this decision, the Supreme Court upheld a state conviction following federal acquittal for the same crime, ruling that the so-called ‘‘double jeopardy clause’’ of the Fifth Amendment, which bars multiple convictions for the same crime, did not apply to the states.