Source: Justice William J. Brennan, “State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights,” Harvard Law Review 90, no. 3 (1977): 489–504, https://doi.org/10.2307/1340334. … Over the past two decades, decisions of
481 U.S. 787, 1987, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/481/787/. Justice Brennan delivered the opinion of the Court . . . … Petitioners1 in these cases were found guilty of criminal contempt by a jury
Source: William Brennan, “The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification,” University of California Davis Law Review 19, no. 1 (fall 1985): 2–14, https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/19/1/addresses-construing-constitution/DavisVol19No1_Brennan.pdf. I am deeply grateful for the
Source: 491 U.S. 397, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/491/397. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. . . . . . . We must first determine whether Johnson’s burning of the flag constituted
Source: 468 U.S. 609, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/468/609. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to address a conflict between a state’s efforts to eliminate gender-based discrimination against
Source: 438 U.S. 726, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/438/726. JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court and an opinion in which THE CHIEF JUSTICE[1] and MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST joined. This case requires that
Source: 376 U.S. 254, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/376/254. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. We are required in this case to determine for the first time the extent to which the
Source: 354 U.S. 476; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/354/476 Justice BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justices FRANKFURTER, BURTON, CLARK, and WHITAKER. Chief Justice WARREN concurred in the judgment. . .
JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellant,[1] a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was discharged by her South Carolina employer because she would not work on
CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari[1] to decide whether the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibits a municipality from including a crèche, or Nativity
