Authors: Earl Warren

1945–1989

South Carolina v. Katzenbach

Source: 398 U.S. 301 (1966), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/383/301. Mr. Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court.  … South Carolina has filed a bill of complaint, seeking a declaration that selected

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Race and Civil Rights
1945–1989

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Source: 347 U.S. 483; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/347/483. Chief Justice WARREN delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court, joined by Justices BLACK, REED, FRANKFURTER, DOUGLAS, BURTON, CLARK, and MINTON. These cases come to

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1945–1989

Reynolds v. Sims

Source: 377 U.S. 533; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/377/533. Mr. Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. . . . Undeniably, the Constitution of the United States protects the right of all

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Race and Civil Rights
1945–1989

Loving v. Virginia

Source: 388 U.S. 1; available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/388/1. MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN1 delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents a constitutional question never addressed by this Court: whether a

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Southern Manifesto
1945–1989

Brown v. Board of Education

Source: 347 U.S. 483 (1954); available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/347/483%26gt. MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN1 delivered the opinion of the Court. These cases come to us from the states of Kansas, South Carolina,

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1945–1989

Brown v. Board of Education

Source: 347 U.S. 483; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/347/483 Chief Justice WARREN delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court, joined by Justices BLACK, REED, FRANKFURTER, DOUGLAS, BURTON, CLARK, and MINTON. These cases come to

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1945–1989

Reynolds v. Sims

Source: 377 U.S. 533; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/377/533 Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justices BLACK, DOUGLAS, BRENNAN, WHITE, and GOLDBERG. . . . Undeniably, the Constitution of

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1945–1989

Miranda v. Arizona

Source: 384 U.S. 436; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/384/436 Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justices BLACK, DOUGLAS, BRENNAN, and FORTAS. . . . On March 13, 1963, Ernesto

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