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×44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island
United States Supreme Court | 517 U.S. 484 (1996)
Under the First Amendment, a state may not constitutionally prohibit the advertising of prices of alcoholic beverages.
A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
United States Supreme Court | 295 U.S. 495 (1935)
Congress may not delegate legislative power to the executive without outlining strict standards for how the executive is to exercise that power.
Aaron B. Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia
United States Supreme Court | 53 U.S. (12 How.) 299 (1851)
In the absence of definitive congressional regulation, federal rules apply to business that requires uniformity of treatment among several states, and business characterized by local peculiarities is governed by legislative decisions passed by the states.
Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner
United States Supreme Court | 387 U.S. 136 (1967)
In determining whether a case or controversy is ripe for adjudication, a court must evaluate the fitness of the issues for judicial decision and the hardship to the parties of withholding court consideration.
Abrams v. United States
United States Supreme Court | 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
Speech, which would ordinarily be protected by the First Amendment, may nevertheless be prohibited when it is used in such circumstances and is of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger of substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Adderley v. Florida
United States Supreme Court | 385 U.S. 39 (1966)
A state may control the use of its own property by preventing protesting activities as long as it applies content-neutral regulations evenhandedly and does so for a nondiscriminatory purpose.
Adkins v. Children's Hospital
United States Supreme Court | 261 U.S. 525 (1923)
Under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, Congress cannot make a law regulating the federal minimum wage for women as this violates the freedom of contract.
Alden v. Maine
United States Supreme Court | 527 U.S. 706 (1999)
Congress may not authorize suits against state governments in state courts, even on federal claims, without the state governments' consent.
Alexander v. United States
United States Supreme Court | 509 U.S. 544 (1993)
A court-ordered seizure of the assets of a business convicted of obscenity law violations does not constitute a prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment.
Alexia Morrison, Independent Counsel v. Theodore B. Olson
United States Supreme Court | 487 U.S. 654 (1988)
The Constitution grants sole authority to the President to appoint and remove principal officers of the federal government, but permits appointment and removal of inferior officers—defined as such by their more limited executive functions—by the President, heads of departments, or the judiciary.
Allen v. Wright
United States Supreme Court | 468 U.S. 737 (1984)
To have standing to bring a lawsuit, plaintiffs must sufficiently allege that they have personally suffered a distinct injury, and the chain of causation linking that injury to the actions of a defendant must not be attenuated.
Allgeyer v. Louisiana
United States Supreme Court | 165 U.S. 578 (1897)
The freedoms protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment include economic freedoms and prohibit a state from preventing its citizens from contracting with foreign insurance companies to insure property located within the state.
Allied Structural Steel Co. v. Spannaus
United States Supreme Court | 438 U.S. 234 (1978)
A state may not pass legislation that retroactively and significantly affects the contractual obligation of an employer to provide a pension plan for its employees.
Amalgamated Food Employees Union Local 590 v. Logan Valley Plaza, Inc.
United States Supreme Court | 391 U.S. 308 (1968)
Where a privately-owned shopping center serves as the community business block and is open to the general public, the state may not use its "no trespassing" laws to prevent citizens from exercising their First Amendment rights to peacefully picket on its premises.
Ambach v. Norwick
United States Supreme Court | 441 U.S. 68 (1979)
A state may refuse to employ as elementary and secondary school teachers aliens who refuse to seek naturalization.
Arkansas Educational Television Commn. v. Forbes
United States Supreme Court | 523 U.S. 666 (1998)
Under the First Amendment, public television broadcasters may constitutionally exclude political candidates from televised debates as long as the debates are designed to be non-public forums and the exclusion is a reasonable, viewpoint-neutral exercise of editorial discretion.
Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union
United States Supreme Court | 542 U.S. 656 (2004)
In determining the constitutionality of content-based regulations of the internet, the government must articulate a compelling purpose for the regulation, and must show that no less-restrictive alternatives exist for accomplishing that purpose.
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition
United States Supreme Court | 535 U.S. 234 (2002)
Legislation that proscribes a significant volume of speech that is not obscene under Miller and not child pornography under Ferber is unconstitutional.
Baker v. Carr
United States Supreme Court | 369 U.S. 186 (1962)
A challenge to malapportionment of state legislatures brought under the Equal Protection Clause is not a political question and is thus justiciable.
Ball v. James
United States Supreme Court | 451 U.S. 355 (1981)
A voting scheme statute that conditions the right to vote on land ownership and apportions voting power according to the amount of acreage owned is constitutional if the scheme bears a reasonable relationship to the statute's objectives.
