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Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court. [1] These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.
Decisions that do not note a Justice delivering the Court's opinion are per curiam. Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly. Justices frequently join multiple opinions in a single case; each vote is subdivided accordingly.
holding that commercial speech is unprotected by the 1st Amendment; overruled by Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council : United States v. Univis Lens Co. 316 U.S. 241 (1942) exhaustion doctrine under U.S. patent law and its relation to price fixing: Betts v. Brady: 316 U.S. 455 (1942) due process, incorporation ...
In two related cases, the fishermen asked the court to overturn the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, which stems from a unanimous Supreme Court case involving the energy giant in a dispute over the ...
This decision initiates a nationwide de facto moratorium on executions that lasts until the Supreme Court's decision in Gregg v. Georgia (1976). Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976) Georgia's new death penalty statute is constitutional because it adequately narrows the class of defendants eligible for the death penalty. This case and the next ...
DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno: 2006: Held that state taxpayers do not have standing to challenge to state tax laws in federal court. 9–0 Massachusetts v. EPA: 2007: States have standing to sue the EPA to enforce their views of federal law, in this case, the view that carbon dioxide was an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Cited Georgia v.
Landmark Cases: Historic Supreme Court Decisions is a series first aired by C-SPAN in the fall of 2015 about 12 key cases argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. A second season aired in the winter and spring of 2018, in which 12 additional cases were discussed. [1] Each episode is 90 minutes long, airs live, and examines a specific case in ...
Abrogated decision Abrogating amendment Summary (topic) of amendment Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. 419 (1793) Eleventh Amendment (1795) Civil jurisdiction (state sovereign immunity) of the States Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857) Thirteenth Amendment (1865)