Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
Katzenbach v. Morgan |
1966 |
voting rights, Section 5 power |
Federal Trade Commission v. Dean Foods Co. |
1966 |
federal agencies can use the All Writs Act to seek an injunction against a threatened action that will substantially interfere with the agency’s performance of its statutory duty |
Miranda v. Arizona |
1966 |
self-incrimination (“right to remain silent”) |
Sheppard v. Maxwell |
1966 |
the Sam Sheppard case, defendant's right to a fair trial vs. freedom of the press |
United States v. Price |
1966 |
the Mississippi civil rights workers murders |
United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs |
1966 |
federal court jurisdiction over pendent claims |
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections |
1966 |
poll taxes are unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause |
Memoirs v. Massachusetts |
1966 |
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South Carolina v. Katzenbach |
1966 |
Voting Rights Act, Fifteenth Amendment |
Brown v. Louisiana |
1966 |
first amendment, right to protest |
Baxstrom v. Herold |
1966 |
Prisoners committed to civil mental institutions have a right to a hearing to determine whether or not they are in fact mentally disordered. |
Graham v. John Deere Co. |
1966 |
nonobviousness as a condition of patentability |
Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board |
1965 |
Communist Party of the United States of America members could not be required to register with the government under the Fifth Amendment |
Lamont v. Postmaster General |
1965 |
Declared unconstitutional a Federal statute requiring that addressees of "Communist political propaganda" affirmatively indicate their request to receive such mailings |
Estes v. Texas |
1965 |
overturning Billy Sol Estes conviction on 14th Amendment due process grounds due to pretrial publicity |
Griswold v. Connecticut |
1965 |
privacy, birth control |
One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania |
1965 |
evidence that is obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment may not be relied on to sustain a civil forfeiture |
Griffin v. California |
1965 |
prosecutor commenting on a defendant's refusal to testify violates the defendant's Fifth Amendment rights |
Harman v. Forssenius |
1965 |
Virginia's partial repeal of the poll tax violated 24th Amendment |
Dombrowski v. Pfister |
1965 |
federal injunction against state criminal trial for subversion |