Landmark Supreme Court cases
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Enslow Publishers
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[1994]
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English
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Presents background information, the case itself, & the far-reaching impact it has had. - A library of the most important United States Supreme Court cases. Examines the issues leading up to the case, the people involved in the case, and the present-day effects of the Court's decision. Each book contains chapter notes, a further reading list, and an index.
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Texas v. Johnson: the flag burning case
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The Bakke case: quotas in college admissions
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Ferrell v. Dallas I.S.D.: hairstyles in schools
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Examines the 1988 Supreme Court case that dealt with the question of whether the censorship of student newspapers by school administrators violated the students' First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
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Korematsu v. United States: Japanese-American internment camps
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Marbury v. Madison: powers of the Supreme Court
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Gibbons v. Ogden: controlling trade between states
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New York Times v. Sullivan: affirming freedom of the press
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Enslow Publishers
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c1999
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English
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Describes the 1995 Supreme Court case which held that public school officals could do mandatory drug testing if they showed that a drug problem existed among the students, even though individual students were not suspected.
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Lemon v. Kurtzman: the religion and public funds case
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Loving v. Virginia: interracial marriage
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Cipollone v. Liggett Group: suing tobacco companies
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Bush v. Gore: controversial presidential election case
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McCulloch v. Maryland: when state and federal powers conflict
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On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court announced its decision in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller. By a vote of 5 to 4, the court struck down a ban on guns as a violation of the Second Amendment. Still, the debate rages on. Does a private citizen still have the right to own a gun for self-defense of the home? Did the government have the right to restrict an entire class of weapons, either by levying taxes or banning them altogether? Tom Streissguth...
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ABDO Pub
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c2013
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English
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Describes the landmark Supreme Court case of Dred Scott, a slave who sued for his freedom, and includes the events leading up to the case, the Supreme Court's ruling, and how it affected future cases and the history of the United States.