Case List
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The Judiciary
Judiciary Review
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Eakin v. Raub (1825)
Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee (1825)
Jurisdiction
Ex. parte McCardle (1869)
Patchak v. Zinke (2018)
Justiciability
Political Question Doctrine
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Nixon v. United States (1993)
Mootness
De Funis v. Odegaard (1974)
Exceptions to Mootness
Sibron v. New York (1968)
Richardson v. Wright (1972)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
West VA v. EPA (2022)
Ripeness
Trump v. New York (2020)
Standing
Flast v. Cohen (1968)
Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992)
The Executive
Structure of the Presidency
Mississippi v. Johnson (1867)
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Appointment and Removal Powers
Myers v. United States (1926)
Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935)
Morrison v. Olson (1988)
NLRB v. Canning (2014)
Lucia v. SEC (2018)
Executive Privilege
United States v. Nixon (1974)
Nixon v. Administrator of General Services (1977)
Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982)
Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982)
Clinton v. Jones (1997)
Trump v. Thompson (2022)
Domestic Powers of the President
In re Neagle (1890)
Ex Parte Grossman (1925)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer (1952)
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority v. Citizens for the Abatement of Aircraft Noise (1991)
Clinton v. City of New York (1998)
West Virginia v. EPA (2022)
Presidential Powers in Foreign Affairs
Prize Cases (1863)
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp (1936)
Dames & Moore v. Regan (1981)
Zivotofsky v. Kerry (2015)
Trump v. Hawaii (2018)
Legislative Powers
Sources and Scope of Legislative Powers
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Chae Chan Ping v. United States (1889)
McGrain v. Daughterty (1927)
Watkins v. United States (1957)
Barenblatt v. United States (1959)
South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966)
United States v. Comstock (2010)
Qualifications and Privileges
Powell v. McCormack (1969)
Gravel v. United States (1972)
U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995)
The Commerce Clause
Defining Commerce
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
United States v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)
Champion v. Ames (1903)
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
Stafford v. Wallace (1922)
The New Deal and Redefining Commerce
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935)
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937)
United States v. Darby Lumber Co. (1941)
Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
Commerce and the States
Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852)
Southern Pacific Co. v. Arizona (1945)
Hunt v. WA State Apple Advertising Commission (1977)
Maine v. Taylor (1986)
Reno v. Condon (2000)
Granholm v. Heald (2005)
National Pork Producers Council v. Ross (2023)
Limits on Commerce Power in the Current Era
United States v. Lopez (1995)
United States v. Morrison (2000)
Gonzales v. Raich (2005)
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012)
The Taxing and Spending Clause
Taxing and Spending as Regulatory Power
McCray v. United States (1904)
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co. (1922)
US v. Carlton (1994)
Defining the Taxing and Spending Power
United States v. Butler (1936)
Steward Machine Co. v. Davis (1937)
Fullilove v. Klutznick (1980)
NFIB v. Sebelius (2012)
Taxing and Spending for the General Welfare
Helvering v. Davis (1937)
Flemming v. Nestor (1960)
Sabri v. United States (2004)
Restriction of State Revenue Power
Michelin Tire Corp v. Wages (1976)
Complete Auto Transit v. Brady (1977)
Oregon Waste Systems v. Dept of Environmental Quality of Oregon (1994)
South Dakota v. Wayfair (2018)
Federalism
Defining Federalism
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
National League of Cities v. Usery (1976)
Garcia v. SAMTA (1985)
Sovereign Immunity
Hans v. Louisiana (1890)
Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984)
Alden v. Maine (1999)
Constraints on Congressional Power
New York v. United States (1992)
Printz v. United States (1997)
Nevada State HR v. Hibbs (2003)
Murphy v. NCAA (2018)
Federal Preemption of State Laws
Missouri v. Holland (1920)
Crosby v. NFTC (2000)
Arizona v. United States (2012)
The Contracts Clause
Early Interpretations of the Contract Clause
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
Sturges v. Crowninshield (1819)
Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
The Taney Court through the New Deal
Proprietors of Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of Warren Bridge (1837)
Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1898)
Coppage v. Kansas (1915)
Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell (1934)
Government Interference in Private Contracts
Allied Steel Co. v. Spannaus (1978)
Exxon Corp v. Eagerton (1983)
Energy Reserves Group v. Kansas Power and Light (1983)
Keystone Bituminous Coal Association v. DeBenedictis (1987)
Modern Applications
Sveen v. Melin (2018)
The Takings Clause
Defining a Taking
United States v. Causby (1946)
Armstrong v. United States (1960)
Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York (1978)
First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. Los Angeles County (1987)
Nollan v. California Coastal Commission (1987)
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992)
Horne v. Department of Agriculture (2015)
Defining Public Use and Its Limits
Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon (1922)
Berman v. Parker (1954)
Agins v. City of Tiburon (1980)
Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff (1984)
Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
War and Takings
United States v. Caltex Inc. (1952)
Substantive Due Process
Creating the Right
Loan Association v. Topeka (1874)
Holden v. Hardy (1898)
Expanding Due Process
Lochner v. New York (1905)
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Adams v. Tanner (1917)
Bunting v. Oregon (1917)
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923)
Retracting the Doctrine
Home Loan Association v. Blaisdell (1934)
Nebbia v. New York (1934)
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. (1955)
