The Supreme Court A to Z
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The Supreme Court A to Z

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The Supreme Court A to Z

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The Supreme Court A to Z offers accessible information about the Supreme Court, including its history, traditions, organization, dynamics, and personalities. The entries in The Supreme Court A to Z are arranged alphabetically and are extensively cross-referenced to related information. This volume also has a detailed index, reference materials on Supreme Court nominations, a seat chart of the justices, the U.S. Constitution, online sources of decisions, and a bibliography to help simplify research.

The fifth edition of The Supreme Court A to Z has been thoroughly updated to incorporate coverage of significant new cases and recent changes on the bench and includes more than 350 alphabetized entries. Presented in an engaging reader-friendly design, this edition includes:

  • Biographies of recently appointed Associate Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, plus revised biographies for recently retired Associate Justices David Souter and John Paul Stevens
  • Updated entries on key issues and concepts, including abortion, campaigns and elections, civil rights, class action, due process, freedom of the press, reapportionment and redistricting, school desegregation, and war powers
  • A new entry on media and the Court, which highlights the Court?s online presence
  • New feature boxes on 2011 decisions
  • Updated seat charts of the justices, online sources for finding decisions, and a selected bibliography
  • An appendix with historic milestones of the Court

The Supreme Court A to Z is part of CQ Press's five-volume American Government A to Z series. The series is useful to anyone who has an interest in national government and politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Supreme Court A To Z
  3. Contents
  4. About the Author
  5. Preface
  6. Abortion
  7. Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
  8. Affirmative Action
  9. Aliens
  10. Alito, Samuel A., Jr.
  11. Amending Process
  12. American Bar Association
  13. Amicus Curiae
  14. Antitrust
  15. Appeal
  16. Appointment and Removal Power
  17. Arguments
  18. Arms, Right to Bear
  19. Arrests
  20. Assembly, Freedom of
  21. Assigning Opinions
  22. Association, Freedom of
  23. Attainder, Bill of
  24. Attorney General
  25. Background of Justices
  26. Bail
  27. Baker v. Carr
  28. Baldwin, Henry
  29. Barbour, Philip P.
  30. Bar of the Supreme Court
  31. Bill of Rights
  32. Black, Hugo L.
  33. Blackmun, Harry A.
  34. Blair, John, Jr.
  35. Blatchford, Samuel
  36. Bradley, Joseph P.
  37. Brandeis, Louis D.
  38. Brennan, William J., Jr.
  39. Brewer, David J.
  40. Breyer, Stephen G.
  41. Brief
  42. Brown, Henry B.
  43. Brown v. Board of Education
  44. Burger, Warren E.
  45. Burton, Harold H.
  46. Bush v. Gore
  47. Busing
  48. Butler, Pierce
  49. Byrnes, James F.
  50. Calhoun, John C.
  51. Campaigns and Elections
  52. Campbell, John A.
  53. Capital Punishment
  54. Cardozo, Benjamin N.
  55. Case Law
  56. Case or Controversy Rule
  57. Catron, John
  58. Certiorari
  59. Chase, Salmon P.
  60. Chase, Samuel
  61. Chief Justice
  62. Child Labor
  63. Circuit Riding
  64. Citizenship
  65. Civil Liberties
  66. Civil Rights
  67. Civil War Amendments
  68. Clark, Tom C.
  69. Clarke, John H.
  70. Class Action
  71. Clay, Henry
  72. Clerk of the Court
  73. Clerks
  74. Clifford, Nathan
  75. Comity
  76. Commerce Power
  77. Common Law
  78. Communism
  79. Concurring Opinions
  80. Conferences
  81. Confessions
  82. Confirmation Process
  83. Congress and the Court
  84. Congressional Immunity
  85. Constitutional Law
  86. Contempt of Court
  87. Contract Clause
  88. Cost of Supreme Court
  89. Counsel, Right to Legal
  90. Counselor to the Chief Justice
  91. Courts, Lower
  92. Courts, Powers of
  93. Criminal Law and Procedure
  94. Cruel and Unusual Punishment
  95. Curator’s Office
  96. Currency Powers
  97. Curtis, Benjamin R.
  98. Cushing, William
  99. Daniel, Peter V.
  100. Davis, David
  101. Davis, John W.
  102. Day, William R.
  103. Decision Days
  104. De Facto, De Jure
  105. Defendant
  106. Disability Rights
  107. Discrimination
  108. Dissenting Opinions
  109. Diversity Jurisdiction
  110. Docket
  111. Double Jeopardy
  112. Douglas, William O.
  113. Due Process
  114. Duvall, Gabriel
  115. Education and the Court
  116. Elections and the Court
  117. Electronic Surveillance
  118. Ellsworth, Oliver
  119. Equal Protection
  120. Exclusionary Rule
  121. Executive Privilege and Immunity
  122. Ex Parte
  123. Ex Post Facto
  124. Extrajudicial Activities
  125. Federalism
  126. Federal Judicial Center
  127. Felony
  128. Field, Stephen J.
  129. Flag Salute Cases
  130. Foreign Affairs
  131. Fortas, Abe
  132. Frankfurter, Felix
  133. Fuller, Melville W.
  134. Garland, Augustus H.
  135. Gay Rights
  136. Gibbons v. Ogden
  137. Gideon v. Wainwright
  138. Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
  139. Goldberg, Arthur J.
  140. Grand Jury
  141. Gray, Horace
  142. Grier, Robert C.
  143. Habeas Corpus
  144. Hamilton, Alexander
  145. Harlan, John Marshall
  146. Harlan, John Marshall
  147. Historical Society, Supreme Court
  148. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
  149. Housing the Court
  150. Hughes, Charles Evans
  151. Hunt, Ward
  152. Impeachment
  153. Impeachment of Justices
  154. Income Tax
  155. Incorporation Doctrine
  156. Indictment
  157. In Forma Pauperis
  158. Injunction
  159. Intellectual Property
  160. International Law
  161. Internet
  162. Internment Cases
  163. Iredell, James
  164. Jackson, Andrew
  165. Jackson, Howell E.
  166. Jackson, Robert H.
  167. Jay, John
  168. Jefferson, Thomas
  169. Job Discrimination
  170. Johnson, Thomas
  171. Johnson, William
  172. Judgment of the Court
  173. Judicial Activism
  174. Judicial Conference of the United States
  175. Judicial Restraint
  176. Judicial Review
  177. Juries
  178. Jurisdiction
  179. Justiciability
  180. Kagan, Elena
  181. Kennedy, Anthony M.
  182. Lamar, Joseph R.
  183. Lamar, Lucius Q. C.
  184. Legal Office of the Court
  185. Legal System in America
  186. Legal Tender Cases
  187. Legislative Veto
  188. Libel
  189. Library of the Court
  190. Lincoln, Abraham
  191. Livingston, H. Brockholst
  192. Loyalty Oaths
  193. Lurton, Horace H.
  194. Majority Opinion
  195. Mandamus
  196. Mandatory Jurisdiction
  197. Marbury v. Madison
  198. Marshal of the Court
  199. Marshall, John
  200. Marshall, Thurgood
  201. Matthews, Stanley
  202. McCulloch v. Maryland
  203. McKenna, Joseph
  204. McKinley, John
  205. McLean, John
  206. McReynolds, James C.
  207. Media and the Court
  208. Merits, On the
  209. Miller, Samuel F.
  210. Minton, Sherman
  211. Miranda v. Arizona
  212. Misdemeanor
  213. Moody, William H.
  214. Moore, Alfred
  215. Mootness
  216. Murphy, Frank
  217. Nelson, Samuel
  218. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  219. Nixon, Richard
  220. Nomination to the Court
  221. Oaths of Office
  222. Obiter Dictum
  223. Obscenity and Indecency
  224. O’Connor, Sandra Day
  225. Official Immunity
  226. Open Housing
  227. Operations of the Court
  228. Opinions
  229. Original Intent
  230. Original Jurisdiction
  231. Pardons
  232. Parochial Schools, Aid to
  233. Paterson, William
  234. Pay and Perquisites
  235. Peckham, Rufus W.
  236. Pentagon Papers Case
  237. Per Curiam Opinion
  238. Personal Papers
  239. Petition, Right of
  240. Petitioner
  241. Pitney, Mahlon
  242. Plaintiff
  243. Plea Bargaining
  244. Plessy v. Ferguson
  245. Plurality Opinion
  246. Police Power
  247. Political Question
  248. Politics and the Court
  249. Powell, Lewis F., Jr.
  250. Precedent
  251. Preemption
  252. The President and the Court
  253. Press, Freedom of
  254. Prima Facie
  255. Privacy, Right of
  256. Probable Cause
  257. Property Rights
  258. Public Accommodations
  259. Public Information Office
  260. Public Opinion and the Court
  261. Ratings of Justices
  262. Reagan, Ronald
  263. Reapportionment and Redistricting
  264. Reed, Stanley F.
  265. Rehnquist, William H.
  266. Religion, Freedom of
  267. Remand
  268. Removal of Cases
  269. Reporter of Decisions
  270. Resignation
  271. Respondent
  272. Retirement
  273. Reversals of Earlier Rulings
  274. Reversals of Rulings by Constitutional Amendment
  275. Reversals of Rulings by Legislation
  276. Ripeness
  277. Roberts, John G., Jr.
  278. Roberts, Owen J.
  279. Roe v. Wade
  280. Roosevelt, Franklin D.
  281. Rutledge, John
  282. Rutledge, Wiley B.
  283. Sanford, Edward T.
  284. Scalia, Antonin
  285. Schedule of Arguments and Conferences
  286. School Desegregation
  287. School Prayer
  288. Scottsboro Cases
  289. Scott v. Sandford
  290. Seal of the Supreme Court
  291. Search and Seizure
  292. Sedition Laws
  293. Segregation
  294. Selective Service Rulings
  295. Self-Incrimination
  296. Seniority
  297. Sentencing Guidelines
  298. Separation of Powers
  299. Severability
  300. Sex Discrimination
  301. Shiras, George, Jr.
  302. Size of the Court
  303. Slaughterhouse Cases
  304. Slavery and the Court
  305. Solicitor General
  306. Sotomayor, Sonia
  307. Souter, David H.
  308. Speech, Commercial
  309. Speech, Freedom of
  310. Speedy Trial, Right to
  311. Spending Powers
  312. Standing to Sue
  313. Stare Decisis
  314. States and the Court
  315. Stevens, John Paul
  316. Stewart, Potter
  317. Stone, Harlan Fiske
  318. Story, Joseph
  319. Strict Construction
  320. Strong, William
  321. Subpoena
  322. Summary Judgment
  323. Supremacy Clause
  324. Supreme Court Building
  325. Sutherland, George
  326. Swayne, Noah H.
  327. Taft, William Howard
  328. Taney, Roger B.
  329. Taxing Power
  330. Temporary Restraining Order
  331. Term Limits
  332. Term of the Court
  333. Test Case
  334. Thomas, Clarence
  335. Thompson, Smith
  336. Three-Judge Court
  337. Todd, Thomas
  338. Tort Law
  339. Traditions of the Court
  340. Travel, Right to
  341. Treaty Power
  342. Trials
  343. Trimble, Robert
  344. Unconstitutional Statutes
  345. United States Reports
  346. Vacancy
  347. Vacate
  348. Van Devanter, Willis
  349. Veto Power
  350. Vinson, Frederick M.
  351. Voting Rights
  352. Waite, Morrison
  353. War Powers
  354. Warren, Earl
  355. Washington, Bushrod
  356. Wayne, James M.
  357. Webster, Daniel
  358. White, Byron R.
  359. White, Edward D.
  360. Whittaker, Charles E.
  361. Wilson, James
  362. Woodbury, Levi
  363. Woods, William B.
  364. Workload of the Court
  365. Writing Opinions
  366. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer
  367. Zoning
  368. Reference Material
  369. Historic Milestones of the Court
  370. Supreme Court Nominations, 1789–2011
  371. Seat Chart of the Justices
  372. Constitution of the United States
  373. Online Sources of Decisions
  374. Selected Bibliography
  375. Index