| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| Bob Jones University v. United States |
1983 |
freedom of religion and tax exemptions |
| Regan v. Taxation with Representation of Washington |
1983 |
restricting 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations from engaging in political activity does not violate the First Amendment |
| Heckler v. Campbell |
1983 |
HHS Secretary's power to promulgate guidelines defining disability |
| Kolender v. Lawson |
1983 |
requiring loiterers or wanderers on the streets to present identification and to account for their presence when requested by a police officer is unconstitutional |
| Commissioner v. Tufts |
1983 |
unanimous decision on when a taxpayer sells or disposes of property encumbered by a nonrecourse obligation exceeding the fair market value of the property sold, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may require him to include in the “amount realized” |
| Connick v. Myers |
1983 |
Free speech rights of public employees for public speech at work |
| City of Los Angeles v. Lyons |
1982 |
standing, requirement of plausible threat of future injury for an injunction to issue |
| Anderson v. Celebrezze |
1983 |
Filing deadlines for independent candidates may not be extraordinarily early. |
| Minneapolis Star Tribune Company v. Commissioner |
1983 |
Special taxes on ink and paper violate the First Amendment |
| Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy |
1983 |
environmental law; psychological effects do not need to be evaluated as part of an Environmental Impact Report |
| Florida v. Royer |
1983 |
search and seizure of an airline passenger walking through an airport |
| District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman |
1983 |
review of state court decisions by U.S. District Courts |
| Briscoe v. LaHue |
1983 |
A case where the court held that Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983 did not authorize a convicted state defendant to assert a claim for damages against a police officer for giving perjured testimony at the defendant's criminal trial. |
| Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Constr. Corp. |
1983 |
Colorado River abstention and enforcement of arbitration clauses in diversity |
| Sporhase v. Nebraska ex rel. Douglas |
1982 |
Nebraska statute forbidding commercial exportation of water violated the Dormant Commerce Clause |
| NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. |
1982 |
First Amendment protection for boycotts |
| United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal |
1982 |
constitutionality of deporting aliens who might give testimony in criminal alien smuggling prosecutions |
| Enmund v. Florida |
1982 |
felony murder and the death penalty |
| New York v. Ferber |
1982 |
States may ban sexual images of minors even where material does not meet existing tests of obscenity |
| Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan |
1982 |
single-sex nursing schools and the Equal Protection Clause |