Barenblatt v. United States, 360 U.S. 109 (1959)
In 1954, Lloyd Barenblatt was subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), which was investigating communist activities and organizations.
Read the full storyBarnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., 501 U.S. 560 (1991)
Nude dancing as an issue in earlier cases occurred in the context of alcohol regulations, such as California v. LaRue (1972), or zoning laws as in Schad v. Mt. Ephraim (1981).
Read the full storyBarron v. Baltimore, 32 U.S. 243 (1833)
Barron v. Baltimore was an appeal to the Supreme Court from the Court of Appeals of Maryland, upon a writ of error through Section 25 of the Judiciary Act of 1789, on the grounds that a state action had violated the U.S. Constitution.
Read the full storyBartkus 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.
Read the full storyBartnicki 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.
Read the full storyBates 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.’’
Read the full storyBatson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986)
In Batson v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court addressed how a criminal defendant can establish that a prosecutor used a peremptory challenge against a prospective juror of the defendant’s race on the basis of race.
Read the full storyBeal v. Doe, 432 U.S. 438 (1977)
Indigents who were eligible for financial assistance under Title XIX of the Social Security Act’s Medicaid program challenged a Pennsylvania statute that denied funding for their desired abortions.
Read the full storyBeauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250 (1952)
In Beauharnais v. Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the validity of a 1917 Illinois group libel statute, finding that such speech fell outside the protections of the First Amendment.
Read the full storyBecker Amendment
The Becker amendment was one of the more significant congressional attempts to overturn an unpopular holding of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read the full storyBelief–Action Distinction in Free Exercise Clause History
One of the central issues in free exercise clause jurisprudence has been the question of whether the state is obliged to give individuals exemptions from government regulations that interfere with their free exercise of religion.
Read the full storyBelle Terre v. Boraas, 416 U.S. 1 (1974)
When a local government zones, it typically classifies land uses according to use type (residential, commercial, industrial, etc.), and then regulates uses within each classification according to height and density.
Read the full storyBellis v. United States, 417 U.S. 85 (1974)
Isadore Bellis was a partner in a small law firm who received a grand jury subpoena for the financial records of the partnership and sought to resist producing them by asserting his Fifth Amendment selfincrimination privilege.
Read the full storyBellotti v. Baird, 443 U.S. 622 (1979)
As soon as the ink was dry on the Supreme Court’s opinion in Roe v. Wade, many state legislatures passed laws to limit a woman’s ability to get an abortion, or to at least place hurdles in her way.
Read the full storyBenton v. Maryland, 395 U.S. 784 (1969)
The double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment provides that no person shall ‘‘be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.’’
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