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Supplemental Cases
Cases marked as
NEW
were decided after the Third Edition was printed in 2023.
Chapter 5
(Early State-Federal Relations)
Gibbons v. Ogden
(fuller version)
Chapter 7
(Reconstruction)
The Slaughterhouse Cases
(fuller version)
Chapter 8
(Lochner Era - Commerce)
US v. E.C. Knight
(fuller version)
(Lochner Era - Due Process)
Jacobson v. Massachusetts
Chapter 13
(Supremacy - Preemption)
Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting
Arizona v. US
(Supremacy - Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine)
NEW
National Pork Producers Council v. Ross
Chapter 14
(Federalism - Commandeering)
Murphy v. NCAA
(fuller version)
Chapter 16
(Separation of Powers - Congress & President)
Noel Canning v. NLRB
(Separation of Powers - Judiciary & President)
NEW
Trump v. US
Nixon (Watergate) / Nixon v. Fitzgerald / Clinton v. Jones
(fuller versions)
Trump v. Hawaii
(fuller version)
Chapter 18
(Equality - Disparate Impact)
Personnel Administrator v. Feeney
(fuller version)
(Equality - Intermediate Scrutiny)
The Path to Intermediate Scrutiny: Reed & Boren
(fuller version)
(Equality - Affirmative Action)
NEW
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College
Grutter and Gratz
(fuller versions) [Now effectively overruled by Students for Fair Admissions]
(Equality - Fundamental Rights Prong)
Plyler v. Doe
Zablocki v. Redhail
Chapter 20
(Freedom - Health Care Decisions)
Riggins v. Nevada
(Freedom - Abortion)
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
[Now overruled by Dobbs]
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
[Now overruled by Dobbs]
June Medical Services v. Russo
[Now overruled by Dobbs]
Chapter 22
(Master Class - Individual Rights)
Bostock v. Clayton County
(summary)
US v. Windsor
(fuller version)
Pavan v. Smith
(fuller version)
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