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| Case name | Citation | Summary |
| NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. | 1938 | Striking workers continue to be employees within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act, but use of strikebreakers is permissible |
| United States v. Carolene Products Co. | 1938 | interstate commerce, substantive due process, and (in footnote four) equal protection |
| Hinderlider v. La Plata River & Cherry Creek Ditch | 1938 | reaffirming existence of federal common law in other cases |
| Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins | 1938 | limiting general federal common law by requiring that state law apply except where federal law exists |
| Hale v. Kentucky | 1938 | exclusion of African Americans from juries |
| New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. | 1938 | safeguard right to boycott and chips away at discriminatory hiring practices against African Americans |
| Lovell v. City of Griffin | 1938 | City ordinance requiring official permission to distribute literature held unconstitutionally broad |
| Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson | 1938 | |
| Palko v. Connecticut | 1937 | selective incorporation, double jeopardy |
| Bogardus v. Commissioner | 1937 | distinction between taxable compensation and tax-exempt gifts under the Internal Revenue Code |
| Steward Machine Company v. Davis | 1937 | Court upholds the unemployment insurance provisions of the Social Security Act |
| National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation | 1937 | interstate commerce; another consequence of “the switch in time that saved nine” |
| West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish | 1937 | Court: Supreme Court of Washington freedom of contract, minimum wage laws; “the switch in time that saved nine” |
| DeJonge v. Oregon | 1937 | 14th Amendment applied to freedom of assembly |
| United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. | 1936 | export restrictions, Presidential power over international commerce |
| Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co. | 1936 | U.S. government as an indispensable party |
| Valentine v. United States | 1936 | extradition powers of the executive branch |
| Wallace v. Cutten | 1936 | application of the Grain Futures Act |
| Brown v. Mississippi | 1936 | coerced confessions by means of violence |
| Grosjean v. American Press Co. | 1936 | Freedom of the press, taxation of newspapers |