| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. |
2003 |
"reverse passing off" and rights to public domain works |
| Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs |
2003 |
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 validly abrogated state sovereign immunity |
| State Farm v. Campbell |
2003 |
due process limits on punitive damages |
| Virginia v. Black |
2003 |
constitutionality of laws forbidding cross burning for purposes of intimidation |
| Smith v. Doe |
2003 |
retroactive application of sex offender registration program is not an ex post facto law |
| Lockyer v. Andrade |
2003 |
California's Three strikes law is not cruel and unusual punishment |
| Ewing v. California |
2003 |
California's Three strikes law is not cruel and unusual punishment |
| Connecticut Dept. of Public Safety v. Doe |
2003 |
holding that Connecticut's sex offender registration statute did not violate due process clause |
| United States v. Navajo Nation |
2003 |
compensation for modification a lease of mining rights to land on an Indian reservation |
| United States v. White Mountain Apache Tribe |
2003 |
the Federal government has a duty to maintain land held in trust for an Indian tribe |
| Eldred v. Ashcroft |
2003 |
extending the duration of the term of copyright under U.S. law |
| Barnhart v. Peabody Coal Co. |
2003 |
Social Security benefit assignment for coal industry workers |
| Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls |
2002 |
constitutionality of drug testing of high school students who participate in competitive interscholastic activities |
| Republican Party of Minnesota v. White |
2002 |
election of state judges, freedom of speech |
| Hope v. Pelzer |
2002 |
use of the hitching post in prisons is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment |
| Zelman v. Simmons-Harris |
2002 |
constitutionality of school voucher program |
| Ring v. Arizona |
2002 |
Sixth Amendment requires that aggravating factors necessary for eligibility for a death sentence must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt; overruling Walton v. Arizona in part |
| Utah v. Evans |
2002 |
use of statistical sampling in the decennial census |
| Rush Prudential HMO, Inc. v. Moran |
2002 |
no preemption of Illinois insurance statute under ERISA |
| Atkins v. Virginia |
2002 |
imposing the death penalty on the mentally retarded; overruling Penry v. Lynaugh |