Sorrells v. United States , 287 U.S. 435 (decided December 19, 1932): defendant accused of liquor sale (during Prohibition) can assert...

Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland, Ohio , 409 U.S. 249 (decided December 18, 1972): simply because airplane crashed into...

Illinois Central R.R. Co. v. McKendree , 203 U.S. 514 (decided December 17, 1906): Secretary of Agriculture can’t make a regulation...

Greene v. Georgia , 519 U.S. 145 (decided December 16, 1996): state Supreme Court on direct appeal does not have to defer to trial...

Heien v. North Carolina , 574 U.S. 54 (decided December 15, 2014): police can stop you for something they think is illegal but actually...

Katzenback v. McClung , 379 U.S. 294 and Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States , 379 U.S. 241 (both decided December 14, 1964):...

<i>United States v. Wheeler</i>, 254 U.S. 281 (decided December 13, 1920): Constitutional right to travel (art. IV, §2) does not apply to...

Bush v. Gore , 531 U.S. 98 (decided December 12, 2000): stopped the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court (though the Court had...

Texas v. Pennsylvania , 592 U.S. --- (decided December 11, 2020): Texas has no standing to contest how other states conduct their...

Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson , 595 U.S. 30 (decided December 10, 2021): suit against abortion “bounty hunter” statute (Texas S. 8) can...

MacMath v. United States, 248 U.S. 151 (decided December 9, 1918): clerk employed as “acting U.S. weigher” at collection port not...

Chew Heong v. United States , 112 U.S. 536 (decided December 8, 1884): Chinese Exclusion Act (requiring certificate for reentry) did not...

Campbell v. Holt , 115 U.S. 620 (decided December 7, 1885): new Texas constitution (which went into effect after Texas was readmitted...

Palko v. Connecticut , 302 U.S. 319 (decided December 6, 1937): Fifth Amendment’s prohibition of double jeopardy did not apply to the...

Lopez v. Gonzalez , 549 U.S. 47 (decided December 5, 2006): felony under state law which is only a misdemeanor under federal law is not...

New Jersey v. City of New York , 290 U.S. 237 (decided December 4, 1933): imposes penalties against NYC for not complying with earlier...

International Shoe v. Washington , 326 U.S. 310 (decided December 3, 1945): this case was (as my law professor put it) the “fountainhead”...

United States v. Stapf , 375 U.S. 118 (decided December 2, 1963): estate not entitled to marital tax deduction where will required...

Moore v. Illinois , 55 U.S. 13 (decided December 1, 1852): upholding Illinois statute criminalizing hiding an out-of-state slave (not...

Porter v. McCollum , 558 U.S. 30 (decided November 30, 2009): ineffective assistance of counsel where mental health effects of combat...