Ohio ('stop and frisk' by police) Gregg v. Subversive Activities Control Board (freedom of association) Terry v. Louisiana (civil rights demonstrations) Communist Party v. Des Moines (Vietnam protest in schools) Texas v. Yoder (compulsory schooling for the Amish) Tinker v. Bakke (reverse discrimination) Wisconsin v. Aguillard (teaching 'creationism') Regents v. Arizona ('the right to remain silent') Roe v. Wainwright (right to counsel) Abington School District v. Winnebago County (child abuse)Ĭases included: Gideon v. Carr ('one person, one vote') United States v. Rodriguez (equal funding for public schools) Bowers v. Virginia (interracial marriage) San Antonio v. Thompson (swimming pool integration) Loving v. United States (public accommodations) Palmer v. Aaron (Little Rock school desegregation) Heart of Atlanta Motel v.

Through the voices of some of the nation's most important lawyers and justices, including Thurgood Marshall, Archibald Cox, and Earl Warren, it offers a chance to hear firsthand our justice system at work, in the highest court of the land.Ĭases included: Gideon v. This edition makes the recordings available on an MP3 audio CD. May It Please the Court includes both live recordings and transcripts of oral arguments in twenty-three of the most significant cases argued before the Supreme Court in the second half of the twentiethcentury.

The original book-and-tape set was a revelation to readers and reviewers, quickly becoming a bestseller and garnering praise across the nation. Until The New Press first published May It Please the Court in 1993, few Americans knew that every case argued before the Supreme Court since 1955 had been recorded.

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