| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| Arkansas v. Sanders |
1979 |
absent exigency, the warrantless search of personal luggage merely because it was located in an automobile lawfully stopped by the police is not justified under the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment |
| Smith v. Maryland |
1979 |
leaves call detail records outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment. |
| Califano v. Yamasaki |
1979 |
procedural due process and the Social Security Act |
| Wilson v. Omaha Tribe |
1979 |
federal law governs an Indian tribe's right of possession to land |
| Torres v. Puerto Rico |
1979 |
Fourth Amendment applies to Puerto Rico |
| Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney |
1979 |
government employment preferences for veterans do not constitute sex discrimination |
| Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex |
1979 |
due process liberty interest in parole |
| Cannon v. University of Chicago |
1979 |
gender discrimination, implied cause of action |
| Bell v. Wolfish |
1979 |
rights of accused persons being held in prison pending trial. |
| Addington v. Texas |
1979 |
involuntarily committing a person to a mental hospital requires a clear and convincing standard of proof |
| Burch v. Louisiana |
1979 |
at a criminal trial, a six-member trial must be unanimous |
| New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer |
1979 |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and legality of discrimination against methadone users |
| Scott v. Illinois |
1979 |
Sixth Amendment right to counsel applies only to crimes for which the actual penalty is imprisonment |
| Thor Power Tool Company v. Commissioner |
1979 |
Income tax in the United States; depreciation of a publisher's inventory |
| Colautti v. Franklin |
1979 |
Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Act held void for vagueness |
| Marquette Nat. Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp. |
1978 |
State anti-usury laws cannot be enforced against nationally-chartered banks located out of state |
| Rakas v. Illinois |
1978 |
asserting the Fourth Amendment rights of third persons |
| FCC v. Pacifica Foundation |
1978 |
obscenity, FCC policing of obscenity |
| Lockett v. Ohio |
1978 |
mitigating evidence required by the Eighth Amendment in capital sentencing proceedings |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke |
1978 |
racial discrimination, affirmative action |