First Amendment: Historic Supreme Court Decisions

by U.S. Supreme Court, LandMark Publications (Editor)

This casebook contains selected historic Supreme Court decisions (181 cases) in the area of First Amendment law. Included is a copy of the Constitution, Bill of Rights and all Amendments to the Constitution. The cases fall under nine categories. 1. Freedom of Assembly 2. Freedom of Association 3. Flag Desecration 4. Freedom of Speech 5. Freedom of the Press 6. Freedom of Religion 7. Establishment of Religion 8. Symbolic Speech 9. Commercial Speech

2695 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 2, 2011

About the author

"The Supreme Court of the United States (first abbreviated as SCOTUS in 1879) was established pursuant to Article III of the United States Constitution in 1789 as the highest federal court in the United States. It has ultimate (and largely discretionary) appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and over state court cases involving issues of federal law, plus original jurisdiction over a small range of cases. In the legal system of the United States, the Supreme Court is the final interpreter of federal constitutional law, although it may only act within the context of a case in which it has jurisdiction.

The Court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Once appointed, justices have life tenure unless they resign, retire, take senior status, or are removed after impeachment (though none has ever been removed). In modern discourse, the justices are often categorized as having conservative, moderate, or liberal philosophies of law and of judicial interpretation. Each justice has one vote, and while many cases are decided unanimously, many of the highest profile cases often expose ideological beliefs that track with those philosophical or political categories. The Court meets in the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C."

-- Wikipedia