Authors: John M. Harlan II

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
1877–1917

Plessy v. Ferguson

Source: 163 U.S. 537; available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537. Mr. Justice BROWN . . . delivered the opinion of the Court. . . .The petition for the writ of prohibition averred that

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1945–1989

Cohen v. California

Source: 403 U.S. 15, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/403/15. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case may seem at first blush too inconsequential to find its way into our books, but

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1945–1989

Sherbert v. Verner

Source: 374 U.S. 398, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/374/398. The Court decided the case 7–2. We have excerpted Justice William J.  Brennan Jr.’s opinion for the Court and Justice John Marshall Harlan’s dissent. Footnotes

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Griswold v. Connecticut

Opinion DOUGLAS, J., Opinion of the Court MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellant Griswold is Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut. Appellant Buxton

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