List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court
This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Rehnquist Court, the tenure of Chief Justice William Rehnquist from September 26, 1986, through September 3, 2005. The cases are listed chronologically based on the date that the Supreme Court decided the case.
| Case name | Citation | Summary |
| Colorado v. Connelly | the involuntary statement of a criminal suspect uttered during a schizophrenic episode but not coerced by the Government is not precluded from admission in court by the due process clause | |
| Griffith v. Kentucky | criminal defendants receive the benefit of new constitutional rules announced before their cases are final on direct review | |
| Commissioner v. Groetzinger | addressed the issue of what qualifies as being either a trade or business under Section 162 of the Internal Revenue Code | |
| Maryland v. Garrison | reasonable belief by police in the validity of a search warrant | |
| Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of California | due process, personal jurisdiction, Minimum contacts | |
| Arizona v. Hicks | probable cause relating to the plain view doctrine under the Fourth Amendment | |
| United States v. Dunn | open fields doctrine | |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca | Asylum applicants must show "well-founded fear" of persecution to establish their eligibility | |
| Keystone Bituminous Coal Ass'n v. Debenedictus | substantive due process, the takings clause of the 5th Amendment | |
| O'Connor v. Ortega | Fourth Amendment rights of public employees | |
| Tison v. Arizona | Felony murder and the death penalty: death penalty is constitutional for major participants in felonies who exhibit extreme indifference to human life, even if someone else personally kills the victim | |
| McCleskey v. Kemp | race discrimination and the death penalty | |
| Pennsylvania v. Finley | right to counsel in post-conviction proceedings | |
| Saint Francis College v. al-Khazraji | persons of Arabian ancestry may make claims for race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 | |
| Hodel v. Irving | Fifth Amendment taking of fractional interests in Native American lands | |
| United States v. Salerno | upholding Bail Reform Act of 1984 as not violating Due Process or Excessive Bail clauses | |
| Turner v. Safley | free speech and marriage rights of prison inmates | |
| Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon | Private actions under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are arbitrable | |
| First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. Los Angeles County | substantive due process, temporary taking | |
| O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz | not a violation of the Free Exercise Clause to deprive an inmate of attending a religious service for "legitimate penological interests." | |
| Board of Airport Commissioners of Los Angeles v. Jews for Jesus, Inc. | constitutionality of broad free speech prohibitions | |
| Edwards v. Aguillard | constitutionality of mandating teaching of creation science in conjunction with evolution | |
| South Dakota v. Dole | use of federal funding to encourage changes in state laws—here, raising the drinking age in all states from 18 to 21 | |
| Puerto Rico v. Branstad | Federal court enforcement of extradition of fugitives | |
| Rankin v. McPherson | free speech rights of federal employees | |
| United States v. Stanley | soldier's tort claim related to Project MKULTRA barred | |
| Nollan v. California Coastal Commission | Fifth Amendment takings clause | |
| Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier | freedom of speech in secondary school newspapers | |
| Hustler Magazine v. Falwell | First Amendment; parody, emotional distress | |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Abudu | Federal courts of appeals must review denials of motions to reopen immigration proceedings for abuse of discretion | |
| Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital | Agencies may not promulgate retroactive rules unless expressly authorized by Congress | |
| Basic Inc. v. Levinson | interpretation of SEC Rule 10b-5, market price manipulation | |
| Lying v. Northwest Indian CPA | religious rights of Native American vs. public interest | |
| South Carolina v. Baker | Federal requirement that state and local bonds be issued in registered form did not violate the Tenth Amendment | |
| Huddleston v. United States | admissibility of prior "bad acts" under the Federal Rules of Evidence | |
| California v. Greenwood | 4th Amendment; even absent a warrant, the search and seizure of garbage left for collection outside the curtilage of a home | |
| Maynard v. Cartwright | cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty | |
| Webster v. Doe | ability for CIA firings and hirings to be judicially reviewed | |
| Schweiker v. Chilicky | no implied cause of action in the Social Security Act | |
| Frisby v. Schultz | First Amendment, privacy, restrictions on abortion protests | |
| Morrison v. Olson | independent counsel's office | |
| Thompson v. Oklahoma | 8th Amendment; cruel and unusual punishment; capital punishment for juveniles under 16 | |
| Arizona v. Youngblood | state's failure to preserve evidence in a criminal case, absent bad faith, is not a due process violation | |
| Beech Aircraft Corp. v. Rainey | Portions of investigatory reports otherwise admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 803 are not inadmissible merely because they state a conclusion or opinion | |
| Mistretta v. United States | United States Sentencing Commission, separation of powers | |
| Florida v. Riley | aerial surveillance and the Fourth Amendment | |
| City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. | Affirmative action, constitutionality of minority business set-aside programs for municipal contracts | |
| Bonito Boats, Inc. v. Thunder Craft Boats, Inc. | state anti-plug molding law struck down under preemption doctrine for interfering with federal patent law | |
| DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services | child welfare department's failure to protect a child from known child abuse does not violate due process | |
| Teague v. Lane | new constitutional rules do not generally apply retroactively to cases on collateral review | |
| Blanton v. North Las Vegas | Jury trial is unnecessary for petty offenses | |
| Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association | requiring drug tests for railroad employees is not an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment | |
| National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab | requiring drug tests for customs inspectors is not an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment | |
| Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris | New York City Board of Estimate representation scheme was held to violate Equal Protection Clause; local government districts must conform to "one person, one vote" | |
| Schmuck v. United States | Scope of mail fraud statute; proper test for lesser included offense | |
| United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press | FBI rap sheets may not be disclosed to third parties under the Freedom of Information Act | |
| Davis v. Michigan | Intergovernmental immunity prohibits state taxation of federal pensions if state pensions are tax-exempt. | |
| Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield | held that the Indian Child Welfare Act governed the adoption of Indian children, and clarified the jurisdiction of the tribal court | |
| Graham v. Connor | standard for claims for violations of the Fourth Amendment | |
| Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express Inc. | Private securities fraud claims under Securities Act of 1933 arbitrable; Wilko v. Swan overruled | |
| Lauro Lines s.r.l. v. Chasser et al. | interlocutory appeals; forum selection | |
| Finley v. United States | pendent party jurisdiction, later overturned by statute | |
| Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio | standard of evidence for disparate impact employment discrimination cases | |
| Hernandez v. Commissioner | Scientology courses do not qualify as charitable deductions under the Internal Revenue Code | |
| Community For Creative Non-Violence v. Reid | copyright, work for hire | |
| Martin v. Wilks | civil procedure in employment affirmative action | |
| Will v. Michigan Dept. of State Police | States and their officials acting in their official capacity are not persons under Section 1983 | |
| Texas v. Johnson | freedom of speech | |
| Ward v. Rock Against Racism | freedom of speech, excessive noise | |
| Granfinanciera v. Nordberg | Seventh Amendment right to jury trials in bankruptcy proceedings | |
| Penry v. Lynaugh | Eighth Amendment permits executing the mentally retarded; overruled by Atkins v. Virginia | |
| Stanford v. Kentucky | Eighth Amendment permits executing offenders who were 16 or 17 years old at the time of the offense; overruled by Roper v. Simmons | |
| Webster v. Reproductive Health Services | state funding for abortion rights | |
| County of Allegheny v. ACLU | holiday displays and state endorsement of religion | |
| University of Pennsylvania v. EEOC | peer review privilege not required by Federal Rules of Evidence or First Amendment | |
| Commissioner v. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. | customer deposits constituting taxable income to a utility company | |
| FW/PBS v. City of Dallas | regulation of "sexually oriented businesses" | |
| Tafflin v. Levitt | state court jurisdiction over civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims | |
| Sullivan v. Zebley | determination of SSI benefits for children | |
| Washington v. Harper | permissibility of involuntary treatment of psychotic inmates | |
| United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez | search and seizure of nonresident alien in foreign country | |
| Chauffeurs, Teamsters, and Helpers Local No. 391 v. Terry | scope of 7th Amendment right to jury trial in civil cases | |
| Employment Division v. Smith | religious freedom with respect to drug use | |
| Missouri v. Jenkins | power of federal courts to order taxation by state or local governments | |
| Osborne v. Ohio | states have the power to ban possession of child pornography without violating the First Amendment | |
| Stewart v. Abend | rights of the successor of a copyright interest | |
| Grady v. Corbin | double jeopardy and subsequent prosecutions | |
| Taylor v. United States | definition of "burglary" under certain sentence enhancement provisions of the federal criminal code | |
| Burnham v. Superior Court of California | physical presence as a requirement for personal jurisdiction | |
| Duro v. Reina | Indian tribes have no jurisdiction over nonmember Indians | |
| Westside School District v. Mergens | Bible study clubs in schools | |
| United States v. Eichman | freedom of speech | |
| Perpich v. Department of Defense | Congressional powers over U.S. National Guard | |
| Eli Lilly & Co. v. Medtronic, Inc. | premarketing activity conducted to gain approval of a device under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is exempt from a finding of patent infringement | |
| Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. | First Amendment and defamation—no "opinion privilege" | |
| Illinois v. Rodriguez | Fourth Amendment, "co-occupant consent rule" | |
| Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health | incompetent persons may not refuse medical treatment under the 14th Amendment | |
| Hodgson v. Minnesota | requiring parental notification for abortion is constitutional with a judicial bypass provision | |
| Walton v. Arizona | Capital punishment and sentencing procedure, partially overruled by Ring v. Arizona | |
| Maryland v. Craig | the right of criminal defendants to confront witnesses | |
| Perry v. Louisiana | forcibly medicating a death row inmate with a mental disorder in order to make sure he is competent to be executed is impermissible | |
| Cheek v. United States | mistake of law is a valid defense to criminal tax evasion because of mens rea | |
| Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell | case "hasten the end of federal court desegregation orders. | |
| Oklahoma Tax Comm'n v. Citizen Band of Potawatomi Tribe of Okla. | an Indian tribe was not subject to state sales tax for sales to tribal members | |
| Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Co. | minimal quantum of creativity is required for copyright protection | |
| Cottage Savings Ass'n v. Commissioner | income tax consequences of mortgage interest exchange, examination of the consequences of the Savings and Loan crisis | |
| Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute | enforcement of forum selection clauses | |
| County of Riverside v. McLaughlin | suspects arrested without a warrant must be brought into court for a probable cause determination within 48 hours | |
| Rust v. Sullivan | government is not required to fund abortion | |
| Hernandez v. New York | prosecutor may use peremptory challenge against bilingual Latino jurors based on his doubts about the ability of such jurors to defer to the official translation of Spanish-language testimony | |
| Lehnert v. Ferris Faculty Association | unions may compel contributions from nonmembers only for the costs of performing its duties as exclusive bargaining agent | |
| California v. Acevedo | police may search a container in a car without a warrant if they have probable cause to believe it contains contraband | |
| Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company | Batson's prohibition on race-based use of peremptory challenges applies in civil trials | |
| Connecticut v. Doehr | Connecticut state statute that authorizes prejudgment attachment of real estate without prior notice or hearing violated the 14th Amendment right to due process | |
| Toibb v. Radloff | holding that individual debtors may file for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code | |
| McNeil v. Wisconsin | differences between the rights secured by the Fifth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment | |
| Florida v. Bostick | random bus searches routinely conducted pursuant to passenger's consent | |
| Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. | First Amendment and the restriction of nude dancing | |
| Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. | First Amendment, freedom of the press | |
| Payne v. Tennessee | admissibility of victim impact statements, stare decisis could be disregarded where fairness to victim's rights had priority over the demands of consistency in the common law. | |
| Peretz v. United States | role of magistrate judges in jury selection in a felony trial | |
| Harmelin v. Michigan | life imprisonment for cocaine possession | |
| Simon & Schuster v. Crime Victims Board | holding that New York's Son of Sam law violated the First Amendment | |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Doherty | U.S. Attorney General has broad discretion to reopen deportation proceedings | |
| INS v. Elias-Zacarias | asylum on account of political opinion must be based on the refugee's political opinion | |
| Lechmere, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board | employer can exclude nonemployee union organizers from private company property | |
| Hudson v. McMillian | excessive force against prison inmates, 8th Amendment | |
| INDOPCO, Inc. v. Commissioner | Expenditures incurred by a target corporation in the course of a friendly takeover are nondeductible capital expenditures under the Internal Revenue Code | |
| United States v. Felix | conviction of a defendant for a crime and for a conspiracy to commit the same offense does not create double jeopardy | |
| United States Department of Commerce v. Montana | formula used for reapportionment | |
| Jacobson v. United States | entrapment occurs when government creates predisposition to commit offense where it did not exist | |
| Foucha v. Louisiana | criteria for the continued involuntary commitment of an individual who had been found not guilty by reason of insanity | |
| Riggins v. Nevada | Forced psychiatric medication during trial violated defendant's rights under Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments | |
| Quill Corp. v. North Dakota | Requiring out-of-state mail order vendor to collect use tax unconstitutionally burdened interstate commerce | |
| United States v. Thompson-Center Arms Company | taxation of firearms | |
| Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife | Standing in a suit to enforce the Endangered Species Act | |
| United States v. Alvarez-Machain | application of the Ker-Frisbie doctrine | |
| Morgan v. Illinois | A defendant facing the death penalty may challenge for cause a prospective juror who would automatically vote to impose the death penalty in every case | |
| Georgia v. McCollum | standard on peremptory challenges from Batson v. Kentucky applied to criminal defendant | |
| Gade v. National Solid Wastes Management Association | federal preemption of state labor safety laws | |
| Forsyth County, Georgia v. The Nationalist Movement | 1st Amendment protection and police protection | |
| New York v. United States | the take title provision of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985 violated the 10th Amendment | |
| Wisconsin Department of Revenue v. William Wrigley, Jr., Co. | permissible scope of taxation of out-of-state corporations doing business within a particular state. | |
| R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul | fighting words, hate speech | |
| Lee v. Weisman | First Amendment, establishment of religion | |
| Planned Parenthood v. Casey | abortion; reaffirming the "core holding" of Roe v. Wade | |
| United States v. Fordice | segregation of colleges and universities | |
| Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council | per se rule of takings clause | |
| Soldal v. Cook County | Fourth Amendment protects property as well as privacy interests, even absent a search or an arrest | |
| Commissioner v. Soliman | "principal place of business" under the Internal Revenue Code | |
| Nixon v. United States | judicial impeachment, political question doctrine | |
| Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic | Civil Rights Act of 1871 could not be used to halt blockades of abortion clinics | |
| Herrera v. Collins | claim of actual innocence is not grounds for federal habeas corpus relief | |
| Spectrum Sports, Inc. v. McQuillan | quantum of proof required for a claim of attempted monopolization under § 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act | |
| Shaw v. Reno | appropriateness of considering race in redistricting | |
| Reno v. Flores | procedures for detaining juvenile aliens awaiting deportation | |
| Saudi Arabia v. Nelson | jurisdiction in an action based upon a "commercial activity" under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act | |
| Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc. | First Amendment protections against restrictions on distributing handbills | |
| United States Department of Justice v. Landano | Freedom of Information Act and confidentiality | |
| Mertens v. Hewitt Associates | Preemption, non-fiduciary liability under ERISA | |
| Wisconsin v. Mitchell | enhanced sentencing for hate crimes and the First Amendment | |
| Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah | animal cruelty, freedom of religion | |
| Minnesota v. Dickerson | seizure of contraband during stop & frisk | |
| Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District | access by religious groups to public school facilities | |
| South Dakota v. Bourland | an Indian tribes hunting and fishing rights were terminated on land the Federal government acquired for a reservoir | |
| Sale v. Haitian Centers Council | illegal immigration | |
| Godinez v. Moran | competency standard for pleading guilty or waiving the right to counsel is the same as the competency standard for standing trial | |
| Alexander v. United States | RICO's forfeiture provision does not violate the First Amendment | |
| Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals | federal judges as gatekeepers for allowing expert witnesses to testify in trials; see also Daubert Standard | |
| Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. California | application of Sherman Antitrust Act to foreign companies | |
| Fogerty v. Fantasy | attorney's fees in copyright litigation | |
| Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. | copyright, commercial fair use is possible, parody | |
| Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Ore. | Commerce Clause | |
| J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B. | peremptory jury challenges based on sex violate equal protection clause | |
| Central Bank of Denver v. First Interstate Bank of Denver | private plaintiffs may not maintain an aiding and abetting lawsuit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 | |
| Landgraf v. USI Film Products | retroactive application of statutory amendments effective while cases are pending in court | |
| C&A Carbone, Inc v. Town of Clarkstown | Dormant Commerce Clause | |
| Waters v. Churchill | Due process rights of public employees in workplace when alleging violations of First Amendment rights | |
| PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County v. Washington Department of Ecology | interpretation of §401 of the Clean Water Act | |
| Farmer v. Brennan | civil liability under the Eighth Amendment for rape of a transgender prison inmate | |
| Dolan v. City of Tigard | Fifth Amendment takings clause | |
| Turner Broadcasting v. Federal Communications Commission | upholding must-carry rules against cable television provider's First Amendment challenge | |
| Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet | school district coinciding with religious community | |
| Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc. | first amendment, restrictions on abortion protests | |
| United Mine Workers of America v. Bagwell | constitutional limitations on the contempt powers of courts | |
| United States v. Shabani | elements of criminal conspiracy | |
| United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc. | conviction under federal child pornography laws requires proof that the defendant knew the subjects were minors | |
| Schlup v. Delo | Standard of proof required for a habeas corpus petition to reopen a case in light of new evidence of innocence | |
| Arizona v. Evans | Exclusionary rule does not require suppressing evidence obtained through good-faith reliance on a search warrant that contains a clerical error | |
| Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., Inc. | color trademarks are appropriate subject matter under the Lanham Act | |
| Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. | separation of powers and finality of judgments | |
| McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission | anonymous campaign literature under the First Amendment | |
| United States v. Lopez | interstate commerce, gun-free school zones | |
| U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton | preventing states from enacting term limits to the US House and Senate | |
| First Options v. Kaplan | independent judicial review of arbitration clause | |
| Adarand Constructors v. Peña | constitutionality of race-based set-asides | |
| Witte v. United States | using "relevant conduct", as defined by the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, at sentencing does not violate double jeopardy principles | |
| Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston | First Amendment freedom of association as applied to a private parade organizer seeking to exclude a group inconsistent with its stated message | |
| Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc. | under the commercial speech doctrine of the First Amendment, states may forbid lawyers from directly soliciting personal injury cases for short periods of time after an accident or a disaster | |
| Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton | constitutionality of public school drug testing; Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments | |
| Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinnette | display of religious symbols on government property | |
| Rosenberger v. University of Virginia | discrimination by state universities against student religious organizations | |
| Miller v. Johnson | racial gerrymandering | |
| Bailey v. United States | meaning of "use" in federal statute imposing a five-year prison sentence on anyone who "uses" a firearm during or in relation to a drug crime or a crime of violence | |
| Lotus Dev. Corp. v. Borland Int'l, Inc. | scope of software copyrights | |
| Behrens v. Pelletier | appeal over ruling on qualified immunity | |
| Hercules, Inc. v. United States | liability for producing Agent Orange | |
| Bennis v. Michigan | held that innocent owner defense is not constitutionally mandated by Fourteenth Amendment Due Process in cases of civil forfeiture | |
| Seminole Tribe v. Florida | Article I and the 11th Amendment | |
| Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. | claim construction of patents | |
| 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. State of Rhode Island | restrictions on commercial speech | |
| BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore | whether punitive damages are limited by substantive due process; 14th Amendment | |
| Smiley v. Citibank | Credit card late fees can be considered interest and thus not subject to regulation by states other than those of bank's location when charged by national banks. | |
| Romer v. Evans | equal protection limitation on forbidding elimination of discrimination on the basis of homosexuality | |
| Jaffee v. Redmond | federal evidentiary privilege for medical confidentiality | |
| Gasperini v. Center For Humanities, Inc. | 7th Amendment, modern interpretation of the Erie doctrine | |
| United States v. Virginia | separate but equal gender discrimination | |
| Ohio v. Robinette | informing motorists that a traffic stop has ended and the motorist is "free to go" is not required under the Fourth Amendment | |
| Caterpillar, Inc. v. Lewis | diversity of citizenship must exist at the time of entry of judgment | |
| M.L.B. v. S.L.J. | states must provide transcripts to poor litigants wishing to appeal adverse parental termination decisions | |
| Old Chief v. United States | admitting evidence of prior convictions and the danger of "unfair prejudice" under Rule 403 of the Federal Rules of Evidence | |
| Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York | protesters at abortion clinics | |
| Auer v. Robbins | FLSA and overtime pay of police officers | |
| Warner-Jenkinson Company, Inc. v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co. | patent law, doctrine of equivalents | |
| Clinton v. Jones | Executive privilege and immunity | |
| Agostini v. Felton | reexamination of Establishment Clause jurisprudence as it applies schools | |
| Kansas v. Hendricks | procedures for involuntary indefinite civil commitment of dangerous persons | |
| City of Boerne v. Flores | scope of Congressional enforcement power under § 5 of the 14th Amendment | |
| Washington v. Glucksberg | constitutionality of state law forbidding assisted suicide | |
| Vacco v. Quill | right to die and assisted suicide | |
| Raines v. Byrd | line item veto, legal standing; redirects to Clinton v. City of New York | |
| Printz, Sheriff/Coroner, Ravalli County, Montana v. United States | background checks before purchasing handguns | |
| Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union | free speech, obscenity, CDA | |
| State Oil Co. v. Khan | rule of reason applied to vertical maximum price fixing, overturned Albrecht v. Herald Co. | |
| Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government | native rights over tribal lands | |
| NCUA v. First National Bank & Trust | intent of Congress w.r.t. the Federal Credit Union Act of 1934 | |
| Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach | pretrial procedures in multi-district litigation | |
| Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services | applicability of sexual harassment laws to same sex harassment | |
| Quality King Distributors Inc., v. L'anza Research International Inc. | application of first-sale doctrine of U.S. copyright law to reimported goods | |
| Almendarez-Torres v. United States | prior convictions used to enhance a sentence need not be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt | |
| Feltner v. Columbia Pictures Television, Inc. | Seventh Amendment right to jury trial in a copyright infringement case | |
| Breard v. Greene | criminal defendant could not raise a defense under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations on federal habeas corpus review | |
| Miller v. Albright | citizenship of a child born outside the United States to a citizen father and an alien mother | |
| Stewart v. Martinez-Villareal | proper timing of a claim under Ford v. Wainwright, regarding competency to be executed, in federal habeas proceedings | |
| Kiowa Tribe of Okla. v. Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. | an Indian tribe is entitled to sovereign immunity to contract lawsuits, whether made on or off the reservation | |
| County of Sacramento v. Lewis | liability of police under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for causing death during high-speed chases | |
| Federal Election Commission v. Akins | standing conferred by statute | |
| United States v. Bajakajian | excessive fines | |
| Swidler & Berlin v. United States | death of an attorney's client does not terminate the attorney–client privilege | |
| Clinton v. City of New York | constitutionality of the Line Item Veto | |
| Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel | Substantive Due Process, Economic Liberties | |
| National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley | 1st amendment, government funding | |
| Bragdon v. Abbott | application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to an asymptomatic HIV patient | |
| Marquez v. Screen Actors Guild Inc. | union shop contracts | |
| Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc. | on-sale bar of United States patent law | |
| Knowles v. Iowa | search subsequent to a traffic citation without consent | |
| Department of Commerce et al. v. United States House of Representatives et al. | Census figures adjusted for undercount based on sampling may not be used for Congressional apportionment | |
| Holloway v. United States | federal carjacking statute applies to carjacking crimes committed by defendants with the "conditional intent" of harming drivers who resist the highjacker. | |
| Federal Republic of Germany v. United States | application of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations to death penalty cases | |
| Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael | non-scientists as expert witnesses in federal trials | |
| Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians | usufructuary rights of Native Americans on certain lands | |
| Jones v. United States | subsections of federal carjacking statute define separate crimes subject to Sixth Amendment jury trial requirement | |
| Wyoming v. Houghton | warrantless search of a passenger's container capable of holding the object of a search for which there is probable cause is not justified under the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment | |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Aguirre-Aguirre | application of Chevron deference standard to Board of Immigration Appeals actions | |
| Saenz v. Roe | welfare benefits to new state citizens and the right to travel | |
| Hunt v. Cromartie | gerrymandering | |
| Chicago v. Morales | loitering as gang activity | |
| Olmstead v. L.C. | undue institutionalization of mental patients violates Americans With Disabilities Act | |
| Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank | sovereign immunity of the States | |
| College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board | sovereign immunity of the States | |
| Alden v. Maine | sovereign immunity of the States | |
| Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents | Congress's enforcement powers under the Fourteenth Amendment do not extend to the abrogation of state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment where the discrimination is rationally based on age | |
| Illinois v. Wardlow | reasonable suspicion for a Terry stop | |
| Reno v. Condon | upholding the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 against a Tenth Amendment challenge | |
| Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. | standing, mootness, "voluntary cessation" | |
| Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC | campaign contributions to state political parties | |
| Rice v. Cayetano | race-based voting restrictions for state government offices | |
| FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. | administrative agency power over an area heavily regulated by Congress | |
| Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth | compulsory student fees to support political campus groups; 1st Amendment | |
| Christensen v. Harris County | county's policy of requiring that employees schedule time off so that they do not accrue time off was not prohibited by the Fair Labor Standards Act | |
| United States v. Morrison | limits of Congress's power under the commerce clause | |
| United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group | scrambling of adult material on cable channels; 1st Amendment | |
| United States v. Hubbell | criminal charges based on subpeonaed documents | |
| Troxel v. Granville | fundamental rights of parents to raise their children, third-party visitation rights | |
| Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe | prayer in public schools | |
| Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council | federal preemption of state foreign trade regulation | |
| Dickerson v. United States | legislative abrogation of Miranda right | |
| Apprendi v. New Jersey | Juries must decide all elements of a crime beyond reasonable doubt | |
| California Democratic Party v. Jones | freedom of association and political primary elections | |
| Boy Scouts of America v. Dale | right of free association, homosexuality | |
| Stenberg v. Carhart | "late term" or "partial birth" abortions | |
| City of Indianapolis v. Edmond | use of dogs at random traffic stops | |
| Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. Mine Workers | public policy considerations do not require courts to refuse to enforce an arbitration award ordering an employer to reinstate an employee truck driver who twice tested positive for marijuana | |
| Bush v. Gore | vote recounts in presidential election, the only court decision to determine the winner of a presidential election | |
| Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass’n | expansion of state action to include "public entwinement" | |
| Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett | Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity and Equal Protection in a disability case | |
| Whitman v. American Trucking Associations, Inc. | determining the scope of the EPA's power to set air quality standards | |
| Semtek International Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp. | res judicata effect of federal judgments in state court | |
| TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc. | trademark protection for patented designs | |
| Ferguson v. City of Charleston | private hospitals that test pregnant women for drugs without their consent and then turn the results over to the police violate the Fourth Amendment | |
| Egelhoff v. Egelhoff | preemption of state law by ERISA | |
| Texas v. Cobb | Sixth Amendment right to counsel is "offense specific," it does not necessarily extend to offenses that are "factually related" to those that have actually been charged | |
| Easley v. Cromartie | racial discrimination, gerrymandering | |
| Alexander v. Sandoval | no private right of action for disparate impact under Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 | |
| Atwater v. City of Lago Vista | - | |
| C & L Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizen Band Potawatomi Tribe of Okla. | Tribal sovereign immunity, waiver by contract to arbitration | |
| Cooper Industries v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. | The correct standard of review to use on appeals for excessive punitive damages | |
| Rogers v. Tennessee | due process, "year and a day rule" in murder cases | |
| United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative | necessity defense under the Controlled Substances Act for medical use of marijuana | |
| Bartnicki v. Vopper | First Amendment and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act | |
| PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin | the Americans with Disabilities Act allows reasonable accommodations of handicaps in professional golf | |
| Kyllo v. United States | defining 'search' under the 4th Amendment with respect to heat sensors | |
| Good News Club v. Milford Central School | free speech, establishment clause | |
| Saucier v. Katz | qualified immunity of a police officer to a civil rights case brought through a Bivens action | |
| United States v. Mead Corp. | Court declines to extend Chevron doctrine to U.S. Customs Service decisions | |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr | The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, and their effect on habeas corpus petitions | |
| New York Times Co. v. Tasini | copyright in databases | |
| Palazzolo v. Rhode Island | Fifth Amendment takings clause | |
| Correctional Services Corp. v. Malesko | civil rights lawsuits against privately run prisons | |
| Chickasaw Nation v. United States | Indian tribes are liable for Federal taxes on gambling revenue | |
| United States v. Knights | warrantless searches of probationers | |
| Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams | meaning of the phrase "substantially impairs" under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 | |
| Kansas v. Crane | as-applied challenge to Kansas' involuntary indefinite civil commitment of dangerous persons, different result from Kansas v. Hendricks | |
| Owasso Independent School District v. Falvo | peer grading does not violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act | |
| Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition | First Amendment protection for simulated child pornography | |
| Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency | substantive due process, takings clause | |
| City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books | zoning of adult bookstores | |
| Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co. | prosecution history estoppel | |
| McKune v. Lile | mandatory treatment for imprisoned sex offenders does not violate the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination | |
| Watchtower Society v. Village of Stratton | door-to-door religious advocacy and the First Amendment | |
| Gonzaga University v. Doe | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act does not create a right which is enforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 | |
| Atkins v. Virginia | imposing the death penalty on the mentally retarded; overruling Penry v. Lynaugh | |
| Rush Prudential HMO, Inc. v. Moran | no preemption of Illinois insurance statute under ERISA | |
| Utah v. Evans | use of statistical sampling in the decennial census | |
| Harris v. United States | Sixth Amendment does not require a jury determination of facts necessary to support the minimum punishment for using or carrying a firearm during or in relation to a drug crime or a crime of violence under | |
| Ring v. Arizona | 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 | |
| Zelman v. Simmons-Harris | constitutionality of school voucher program | |
| Hope v. Pelzer | use of the hitching post in prisons is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment | |
| Republican Party of Minnesota v. White | election of state judges, freedom of speech | |
| Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls | constitutionality of drug testing of high school students who participate in competitive interscholastic activities | |
| Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania | the Double Jeopardy Clause does not forbid seeking the death penalty after an acquittal on first-degree murder charges | |
| Barnhart v. Peabody Coal Co. | Social Security benefit assignment for coal industry workers | |
| Eldred v. Ashcroft | extending the duration of the term of copyright under U.S. law | |
| Scheidler v. National Organization for Women | applying RICO to activities of abortion clinic protesters | |
| Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue, Inc. | claims of trademark dilution require proof of actual dilution | |
| United States v. White Mountain Apache Tribe | the Federal government has a duty to maintain land held in trust for an Indian tribe | |
| United States v. Navajo Nation | compensation for modification a lease of mining rights to land on an Indian reservation | |
| Connecticut Dept. of Public Safety v. Doe | holding that Connecticut's sex offender registration statute did not violate due process clause | |
| Ewing v. California | California's Three strikes law is not cruel and unusual punishment | |
| Lockyer v. Andrade | California's Three strikes law is not cruel and unusual punishment | |
| Smith v. Doe | retroactive application of sex offender registry program is not an ex post facto law | |
| Virginia v. Black | constitutionality of laws forbidding cross burning for purposes of intimidation | |
| State Farm v. Campbell | due process limits on punitive damages | |
| Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs | Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 validly abrogated state sovereign immunity | |
| Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. | "reverse passing off" and trademark cannot extend rights to previously copyrighted works now in the public domain | |
| Entergy Louisiana, Inc. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission | federal preemption of FERC-approved tariff over state agency order | |
| Sell v. United States | Forced psychiatric medication by lower federal courts is permissible under some circumstances | |
| United States v. American Library Association | Congressional requirement that libraries install web-filtering software held not to violate First Amendment | |
| Gratz v. Bollinger | racial discrimination, affirmative action, equal protection | |
| Grutter v. Bollinger | racial discrimination, affirmative action, equal protection | |
| American Insurance Association v. Garamendi | California state insurance statute struck down for interfering with Presidential foreign policy | |
| Wiggins v. Smith | ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing | |
| Lawrence v. Texas | finding laws restricting sodomy between consenting adults unconstitutional; overruling Bowers v. Hardwick | |
| McConnell v. FEC | First Amendment; political speech | |
| Verizon Communications v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP | the Sherman Antitrust Act and requirements of telecommunications companies under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 | |
| Illinois v. Lidster | accident investigation checkpoints do not violate the Fourth Amendment | |
| Fellers v. United States | once judicial proceedings have been initiated against a defendant, police officers cannot elicit information from the defendant without the defendant's counsel present | |
| Doe v. Chao | governmental violation of privacy rights | |
| Locke v. Davey | a religion clauses case upholding a Washington state scholarship program which excluded funding devotional studies. | |
| Crawford v. Washington | prior testimony exception to hearsay in criminal trials, Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses; abrogating Ohio v. Roberts | |
| National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish | availability of death-scene images under the Freedom of Information Act over the objection of family members; investigation into the suicide of Vince Foster | |
| United States v. Flores-Montano | reasonableness of removing a gas tank from a vehicle crossing the border under the Fourth Amendment | |
| Vieth v. Jubelirer | justiciability of suit to enjoin gerrymandering | |
| Tennessee v. Lane | Congress's power under the 14th amendment, section 5; Americans With Disabilities Act | |
| Nelson v. Campbell | challenging lethal injection protocols under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 | |
| Republic of Austria v. Altmann | retroactive application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act | |
| Central Laborers' Pension Fund v. Heinz | an ambiguity in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act | |
| Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen | Presidential foreign affairs and foreign trade actions | |
| Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow | validity of “under God” in Pledge of Allegiance; standing to bring suit on another’s behalf | |
| United States v. Dominguez Benitez | appellate review standard for violations of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure governing the taking of guilty pleas | |
| Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada | constitutionality of state law requiring citizens to identify themselves to police | |
| Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila | ERISA's effect on federal jurisdiction of cases involving utilization review | |
| Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | foreign tribunals | |
| Blakely v. Washington | jury must find all elements of a criminal sentence beyond a reasonable doubt | |
| Schriro v. Summerlin | retroactively applying the rule set in Ring v. Arizona that a jury must find the aggravating factors in a capital murder case | |
| Rumsfeld v. Padilla | detention of American citizens | |
| Rasul v. Bush | jurisdiction over foreign nationals detained in Guantanamo Bay | |
| Hamdi v. Rumsfeld | detention of American citizens | |
| Missouri v. Seibert | Missouri's practice of interrogating suspects without reading them a Miranda warning, then reading them the warning and asking them to repeat their confession is unconstitutional | |
| Leocal v. Ashcroft | DUI is not a "crime of violence" requiring deportation of an alien | |
| Koons Buick, Inc. v. Nigh | Truth in Lending Act imposes a $1000 limit on statutory damages for violations of the Act involving personal-property loans. | |
| KP Permanent Make-Up, Inc. v. Lasting Impression I, Inc. | fair use defense to a trademark infringement action does not require proof that there is no likelihood of confusing the marks | |
| United States v. Booker | applying Blakely v. Washington to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines | |
| Clark v. Martinez | detention of aliens awaiting deportation | |
| Illinois v. Caballes | 4th Amendment search and seizure | |
| Commissioner v. Banks | Whether or not the portion of a money judgment or settlement paid to a taxpayer's attorney under a contingent-fee agreement is income to the taxpayer for federal income tax purposes. | |
| Johnson v. California | proper standard for reviewing constitutional race-discrimination claim in sorting prison inmates | |
| Roper v. Simmons | imposing the death penalty on juvenile murderers; overruling Stanford v. Kentucky | |
| Cherokee Nation of Okla. v. Leavitt | a Federal contract with an Indian tribe is binding, even if Congress did not appropriate funds | |
| Tenet v. Doe | enforceability of contracts between the government and spies | |
| Shepard v. United States | proving prior convictions obtained through guilty pleas under Taylor v. United States | |
| City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y. | the repurchase of tribal land by an Indian tribe does not restore tribal sovereignty to the land | |
| Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp. | state court decisions and the application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine | |
| Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Broudo | standard for pleading loss causation in a securities fraud claim | |
| Small v. United States | resolution of split appeals court decisions on inclusion of foreign courts in the term "any court" | |
| Granholm v. Heald | interstate shipment of wine under the Dormant Commerce Clause | |
| Deck v. Missouri | shackling a defendant during the penalty phase of a capital murder trial | |
| Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States | legality of document destruction in the face of likely government investigation | |
| Cutter v. Wilkinson | religious freedom for prison inmates | |
| Tory v. Cochran | defamation, enjoinment of speech; continuity of injunction after death | |
| Gonzales v. Raich | legitimacy of using marijuana as a medicine, and power of the federal government to regulate intrastate activities | |
| Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd. | applicability of the Americans with Disabilities Act to foreign-held companies | |
| Merck KGaA v. Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd. | applicability of patents in preclinical studies | |
| Wilkinson v. Austin | due process requirements for placing prisoners in Supermax prisons | |
| Miller-El v. Dretke | clarification of Batson v. Kentucky standard for peremptory challenges | |
| Kelo v. City of New London | eminent domain; takings of private property for private development | |
| Van Orden v. Perry | legality of a Ten Commandments display | |
| Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales | liability of police departments under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failing to respond to domestic violence calls | |
| McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky | constitutionality of a Ten Commandments display; potential reformulation of the Lemon test | |
| MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. | Copyright infringement in P2P file-sharing; re-examination of Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios | |
| National Cable and Telecomm. Assn v. Brand X Internet Services | allowing small internet service providers to lease bandwidth from privately owned coaxial cable lines |