| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen |
2004 |
Presidential foreign affairs and foreign trade actions |
| Central Laborers' Pension Fund v. Heinz |
2004 |
an ambiguity in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
| Republic of Austria v. Altmann |
2004 |
retroactive application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act |
| Tennessee v. Lane |
2004 |
Congress's power under the 14th amendment, section 5; Americans With Disabilities Act |
| Vieth v. Jubelirer |
2004 |
justiciability of suit to enjoin gerrymandering |
| United States v. Flores-Montano |
2004 |
reasonableness of removing a gas tank from a vehicle crossing the border under the Fourth Amendment |
| Crawford v. Washington |
2004 |
prior testimony exception to hearsay in criminal trials, Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses; abrogating Ohio v. Roberts |
| Locke v. Davey |
2004 |
a religion clauses case upholding a Washington state scholarship program which excluded funding devotional studies. |
| Doe v. Chao |
2004 |
governmental violation of privacy rights |
| Fellers v. United States |
2004 |
once judicial proceedings have been initiated against a defendant, police officers cannot elicit information from the defendant without the defendant's counsel present |
| Illinois v. Lidster |
2004 |
accident investigation checkpoints do not violate the Fourth Amendment |
| Verizon Communications v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP |
2004 |
the Sherman Antitrust Act and requirements of telecommunications companies under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 |
| McConnell v. FEC |
2003 |
First Amendment; political speech |
| Lawrence v. Texas |
2003 |
finding laws restricting sodomy between consenting adults unconstitutional; overruling Bowers v. Hardwick |
| Wiggins v. Smith |
2003 |
ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing |
| American Insurance Association v. Garamendi |
2003 |
California state insurance statute struck down for interfering with Presidential foreign policy |
| Grutter v. Bollinger |
2003 |
racial discrimination, affirmative action, equal protection |
| Gratz v. Bollinger |
2003 |
racial discrimination, affirmative action, equal protection |
| United States v. American Library Association |
2003 |
Congressional requirement that libraries install web-filtering software held not to violate First Amendment |
| Sell v. United States |
2003 |
Forced psychiatric medication by lower federal courts is permissible under some circumstances |