Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia - Vol. 2

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Slavery 581
• The End of Slavery in Massachusetts 583
• Emancipation of Slaves in Transit 587
• Upholding the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 591
• "They Have No Rights" 595
• Slavery, Freedom, and Federal Judicial Power 604
• Slaves-In-Transit and the Antebellum Crisis 608
• African Americans Since 1865 611
• No "Right" to Vote: the Reconstruction Election Cases 613
• Civil Rights or Last Rites? 618
• "Separate but Equal" Approved 624
• Race, Law, and Gender in South Carolina, 1925-1927 629
• Justice Vindicated: the Case of William Harper, 1931 633
• The Scottsboro Cases 637
• Separate Education is Not Equal Education 645
• The Little Rock Crisis: State Interposition Against the Supreme Court 657
• A Case of Black and White: Removing Restrictions Against Interracial Marriages 662
• The School Busing Case 666
• Desegregation Heads North 671
• Far Enough? the Rehnquist Court and Desegregation 676
• Native Americans 683
• The Cherokee Cases 685
• The "Death Knell of the Nations" 695
• Why Native Americans Can No Longer Count on Treaties with the U.S. Government 700
• Native American Land Claims: the Indians Finally Win 706
• Other Racial Minorities 715
• Chinese Laundries and the Fourteenth Amendment 717
• The Japanese Internment Cases 722
• How Should We Pay for Our Schools? 732
• Affirmative Action: Can a White, College-Educated Male Be a Victim of Discrimination? 738
• Is Race Still a Compelling Factor? 744
• Women 749
• Should a Woman Be Admitted to the Bar? 751
• Aberration in the Movement Toward an Eight-Hour Day 754
• The Law Recognizes "Women Are Different" 757
• A Supreme Court First: Equal Protection Applied to Women 765
• Sex Discrimination: Reasonable or Suspect? 769
• Law Upheld Guaranteeing Right to Return to Work After Childbirth Leave of Absence 772
• The Fetus and the Workplace 775
• Do Women Belong in Military Academies? 779
• Protecting Students from Sexual Harassment 784
• Gays and Lesbians 789
• When Consenting Adults Can't: Privacy, the Law, and Homosexual Conduct 791
• Does the Right to Privacy End Where Sexual Preference Begins? 794
• "Animus" or Moral Justification?: Anti-Gay Laws and Equal Protection 798
• Americans with Disabilities 801
• "Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough" 803
• School Medical Services for Children with Disabilities 806
• Mitigating Measures and the Definition 810
• Is Walking an Integral Part of the Game of Golf ? 815
• Freedom of Speech 827
• State Wrongs and the Bill of Rights 829
• Defining Free-Speech Protection in the World War I Era 832
• Agrarian Reform and the Politics of Loyalty 841
• Expanding Free Speech to the States 845
• Silencing Critics: Guilt by Association in the 1920s 850
• The California Red Flag Law and Freedom of Speech 854
• Cold War, Communism, and Free Speech 858
• The Smith Act Narrowed 867
• "Breach of Peace" and Group Libel 871
• The Constitution Finds Its Way Inside the Schoolhouse Gate 874
• Commercial Speech and the First Amendment 879
• Free Speech and Legal Ethics: the Issue of Lawyer Advertising 884
• Flag Burning and the Constitution 887
• Reigniting the "Fighting Words"/ "Symbolic Speech" Debate: Cross Burning and the Constitution 891
• Freedom of the Press 895
• Myth and Reality: the Case of John Peter Zenger 897
• The Sedition Act and the Price of a Free Press 901
• The Limits of Prior Restraint 905
• Public Officials, Libel, and a Free Press 912
• Public Personalities and the Right to Privacy 915
• The Pentagon Papers 918
• Public Disclosure of Private Facts 925
• Did Cbs Libel General Westmoreland? 928
• The "Preacher" and the "Smut Merchant 932
• Freedom of Religion 937
• Religion, Cultural Pluralism, and the Constitution: Mormonism and Polygamy 939
• The Scopes Trial: A Collision of Cultures 942
• The Flag Salute Cases 947
• Religion in the Public School Day: the Released Time Cases 957
• To Pray or Not to Pray: the Supreme Court Says No to Prayer in the Public Schools 965
• Conscientious Objection: A Right or a Privilege? 972
• Lemon Test, Not So Pretty 975
• Expanded Exercise: the Amish, Compulsory Education, and Religious Freedom 978
• The Pieties of Silence 983
• Religious Practices and the First Amendment: the Peyote Case 986
• Obscenity and Pornography 991
• Obscenity: "I Know It When I See It!" 993
• A Book Named Fanny Hill 997
• The Triumph of "Community Standards" 1000
• Pornography, Feminism, and Free Speech 1004
• "Cyberporn" and the Constitution 1007
• Other Civil Liberties Issues 1013
• The Court and the Committee 1015
• The Court and the Committee: Part Two 1019
• The Right to Travel 1022
• Family Welfare Rights and the Right to Travel 1025
• Privacy 1029
• Meaningful Shadows? the Right of Privacy Achieves Constitutional Status 1031
• The Right of Guardians to Terminate Life-Extending 1036
• Physician-Assisted Suicide; Death with Dignity? 1040
• Abortion: Who Shall Decide? 1047
• Preserving the "Essence" of Roe V. Wade 1053
• Index of Cases 1059
• Index of Names and Subjects 1063

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