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Katzenbach v. McClung, Sr. & McClung, Jr.
United States Supreme Court | 379 U.S. 294 (1964)
Congress may regulate the discriminatory policies of restaurants through Title II of the Civil Rights Act if those policies have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority
United States Supreme Court | 469 U.S. 528 (1985)
Congress's application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to the employment actions of a state municipal transit authority is a constitutional exercise of its Commerce Clause power.
Whitman v. American Trucking Assn., Inc.
United States Supreme Court | 531 U.S. 457 (2001)
Congress may delegate legislative power to the executive as long as it provides "intelligible principles" that guide how the executive must exercise such power, and the courts will defer to Congress when determining whether these principles are present.
Slaughter House Cases: Butchers' Benevolent Assn. of New Orleans v. Crescent City Livestock Landing & Slaughter-house Co.
United States Supreme Court | 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1872)
The Thirteenth Amendment solely prohibits slavery as experienced by Africans in the United States before the Civil War, and the Fourteenth Amendment (which is largely geared towards the protections of emancipated slaves and African Americans) only protects rights guaranteed by the United States and not individual states.
Twining v. New Jersey
United States Supreme Court | 211 U.S. 78 (1908)
The Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination does not apply to state court proceedings through the Fourteenth Amendment's Privileges and Immunities Clause or Due Process Clause.
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell
United States Supreme Court | 538 U.S. 408 (2003)
Awards of punitive damages by state courts that exceed a single-digit ratio between punitive damages and compensatory damages are usually "grossly excessive" and violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Roe v. Wade
United States Supreme Court | 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
The constitutional right of privacy encompasses a woman's right to an abortion. However, abortions may be regulated by a state after the first trimester of pregnancy and may be completely prohibited after the point of "viability" of a fetus unless necessary to preserve the health of the mother.
Virginia v. Black
United States Supreme Court | 538 U.S. 343 (2003)
While a state, consistent with the First Amendment, may ban cross burning carried out with the intent to intimidate, a state may not treat cross burning itself as prima facie evidence of the intent to intimidate.
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.
Engel v. Vitale
United States Supreme Court | 370 U.S. 421 (1962)
Under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, state officials may not compel an official state prayer, even if the prayer is denominationally neutral and students have the option of remaining silent or being excused.
