Miranda v. Arizona
Supreme Court (US)·41 jurors have voted
A confession pulled from two hours of questioning, from a man never told he could stay silent.
15 active deliberations open for the public.
McCollum v. Rochester Psychiatric Center
Indefinite detention of a neurodivergent man whose offenses amount to driving trains without permission.
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
A documentary blocked weeks before a primary, and the ruling that unleashed unlimited political money.
Ohio refused to name him the surviving spouse on his dying husband's death certificate.
A detective's hunch, a pat-down without probable cause, and the birth of stop and frisk.
Three students wore black armbands to mourn the war dead, and their school suspended them.
An ad with a few small factual errors cost the Times half a million dollars in an Alabama courtroom.
Too poor for a lawyer, he defended himself, lost, and wrote to the Supreme Court in pencil.
A father buried his son while strangers picketed the funeral thanking God for dead soldiers.
Boots sold as handcrafted entirely in America, with uppers from the Dominican Republic and soles from Brazil.
127 days of one man's phone location history, pulled by the FBI without a warrant.
He guarded federal buildings with a handgun, and the law forbade him from keeping one at home.
The prosecutor struck every Black juror, and an all-white jury convicted him.
Virginia sterilized a teenage rape victim, and the Court wrote that three generations of imbeciles are enough.
The city took her house for a private development that was never built.