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United States v. Sprague
Congress has the authority to decide how constitutional amendments will be ratified in accordance with the options provided in Article Five. -
Stromberg v. California
States cannot infringe on the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and expression. -
Near v. Minnesota
A Minnesota law that imposed permanent injunctions against the publication of newspapers with "malicious, scandalous, and defamatory" content violated the First Amendment, as applied to the states by the Fourteenth. Minnesota Supreme Court reversed. -
Blackmer v. United States
International law recognized a state's right to retain jurisdiction over its citizens abroad. Fines against Blackmer upheld. -
Powell v. Alabama
Defendants' conviction was unconstitutional because they were denied the assistance of counsel from the time of their arraignment until the beginning of their trial, in violation of the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause. Under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, counsel must be guaranteed to anyone facing the possibility of a death sentence, whether in state or federal courts. -
Burroughs v. United States
Incorporation by description may be considered in determining the adequacy of conspiracy and substantive counts; Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 is not in violation of the Federal Constitution, Art. II. 1 -
Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan
Specific parameters must be laid down in the delegation of power to the president to enforce legislative statutes. -
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
Section 3 of the National Industrial Recovery Act was an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to the Executive, and was not a valid exercise of congressional Commerce Clause power. Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in part, reversed in part. -
Humphrey's Executor v. United States
The President may not remove any appointee to an independent regulatory agency except for reasons Congress has provided by law. -
United States v. Butler
The Agricultural Adjustment Act is an unconstitutional exercise of power. -
De Jonge v. Oregon
The Oregon statute as applied to the particular charge as defined by the state court is repugnant to the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The judgment of conviction is reversed and the cause is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. -
Steward Machine Company v. Davis
The unemployment compensation sections of the Social Security Act are constitutional. -
Hale v. Kentucky
The equal protection of the laws guaranteed to petitioner by the Fourteenth Amendment had been denied. -
Collins v. Yosemite Park & Collins Co.
The court held that the sections of a California statute which levied excises on sales of liquor in Yosemite National Park were enforceable in the Park, while sections of the same statute providing regulation of the Park liquor traffic through licenses were unenforceable. -
United States v. Miller
The National Firearms Act — as applied to transporting in interstate commerce a 12-gauge shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches long, without having registered it and without having in his possession a stamp-affixed written order for it — was not unconstitutional as an invasion of the reserved powers of the States and did not violate the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.