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Rights, Liberties, and Justice

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Constitutional Law for a Changing America Resource Center

Lee Epstein
Thomas G. Walker

Rights, Liberties, and Justice

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  • I. THE SUPREME COURT AND THE CONSTITUTION
  • 1. Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court
  • 2. The Judiciary: Institutional Powers and Constraints
  • 3. Incorporation of the Bill of Rights
  • II. CIVIL LIBERTIES
  • 4. Religion: Exercise and Establishment
  • 5. Freedom of Speech, Assembly, and Association
  • 6. Freedom of the Press
  • 7. The Boundaries of Free Expression: Libel, Obscenity, and Emerging Areas of Government Regulation
  • 8. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  • 9. Privacy and Personal Liberty
  • III. THE RIGHTS OF THE CRIMINALLY ACCUSED
  • 10. Investigations and Evidence
  • 11. Attorneys, Trials, and Punishments
  • IV. CIVIL RIGHTS
  • 12. Discrimination
  • 13. Contemporary Approaches to Equal Protection
  • 14. Voting and Representation

Cases

The Right to Counsel

  • Alabama v. Shelton 
  • Argersinger v. Hamlin 
  • Betts v. Brady 
  • Carpenter v. United States
  • Douglas v. California 
  • Halbert v. Michigan 
  • Indiana v. Edwards 
  • Rompilla v. Beard 
  • Ross v. Moffitt 
  • Scott v. Illinois 

 

The Pretrial Period and the Right to Bail

  • United States v. Salerno 

 

The Sixth Amendment and Fair Trials

  • Apodaca v. Oregon 
  • Barker v. Wingo 
  • Betterman v. Montana (2016) 
  • Foster v. Chatman (2016) 
  • J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B. 
  • Johnson v. Louisiana 
  • Ramos v. Louisiana
  • Swain v. Alabama 
  • United States v. Marion 
  • Vermont v. Brillon 
  • Williams v. Florida 
  • Williams v. Pennsylvania (2016) 

 

Trial Proceedings

  • Brady v. Maryland 
  • Coy v. Iowa 
  • Davis v. Washington, Harmon v. Indiana 
  • Illinois v. Allen 
  • Maryland v. Craig 
  • Melendez-Dias v. Massachusetts 
  • Sell v. United States 
  • United States v. Agurs 

 

Final Trial Stage: An Overview of Sentencing

  • Blakely v. Washington 
  • Gall v. United States 
  • Kimbrough v. United States 
  • United States v. Booker; United States v. Fanfan 

 

The Eighth Amendment

  • Baze v. Rees 
  • Ewing v. California 
  • Furman v. Georgia 
  • Glossip v. Gross (2015) 
  • Kansas v. Marsh 
  • Kennedy v. Louisiana 
  • McCleskey v. Kemp 
  • Roper v. Simmons 
  • Solem v. Helm 

 

Post-Trial Protections and the Double Jeopardy Clause

  • Ashe v. Swenson 
  • Kansas v. Hendricks 

 

Post-Release Protections

  • Connecticut Department of Public Safety v. Doe 

 

Attorneys, Trials and Punishments: The War on Terrorism

  • Hamdan v. Rumsfeld 
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