Shaping Justice: Landmark Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court

by Kermit L. Hall

COURSE LECTURES The Judicial Power, Jurisdiction, and the Ages of the Supreme Court The Establishment of Judicial Marbury v. Madison (1803) Privilege and Creative Charles River Bridge v.Warren Bridge (1837) Equality, Slavery, and the Supreme Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) Native American Sovereignty and the Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock(1903) Liberty to Contract in the Industrial Lochner v. New York (1905) Clear and Present Danger, the First Amendment, and Total Abrams v. United States (1919) A Switch in Time? West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937) Japanese Internment and Total Korematsu v. United States (1944) Simple Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954, 1955) Abortion, Women, and Roe v. Wade (1973) Presidential Immunity and United States v. Nixon (1974) The Boundaries of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) The Ten Greatest Justices in the History of the Supreme Court

Genres: History

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First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Kermit Lance Hall was a noted legal historian who served as president of Utah State University from 2000 to 2005, and president of the at University at Albany from 2005 until his sudden death from a heart attack in 2006.

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[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hall takes the 18 most influential Supreme Court cases and gives the what-what for the case: history, personalities, SC justices and their strengths and weaknesses, and what society was thinking.

According to Hall, everytime teh Supreme Court rules it like a mini Constitutional convention.