Authors: Stephen G. Breyer

1989–Present

Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.

Source: 594 U. S. (2021), https://www.oyez.org/cases/2020/20-255. JUSTICE BREYER delivered the opinion of the Court. A public high school student used, and transmitted to her Snapchat friends, vulgar language and gestures

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1989–Present

Our Democratic Constitution

Source: Justice Stephen Breyer, “Our Democratic Constitution,” 77 New York University Law Review 77, no. 2 (May 2002): 245–272, https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NYULawReview-77-2-Breyer.pdf. The United States is a nation built on principles of

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1989–Present

Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association

Source: 564 U.S. 786, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-1448.ZS.html. JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. We consider whether a California law imposing restrictions on violent video games comports with the First Amendment.

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1989–Present

Van Orden v. Perry

Source: 543 U.S. 677 (2005), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1500.ZO.html. We omit the opinion of the Court by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and provide instead the concurring opinions of Justices Clarence Thomas and

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