Favorite court case(s)

[Benj]

United States v. Carolene Products Co., 304 U.S. 144 (1938) is one of my favorites, mostly because it's easy to get excited about footnotes that change the course of history.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Since the set of posts begun by the post quoted below was largely not about the case that started that discussion, I chose to split them into a separate thread named Intelligent Design v. Evolution and move it to the Religion & Philosophy board.

Well, favorite recent one: Kitzmiller vs. Dover Board of Education

Nova made a documentary about it a few years back: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/intelligent-design-trial.html

Intelligent Design was revealed as creationism and defeated in front of a Republican judge here in PA. But the whole backstory about how a few local yokels on the school board tried to consciously undermine science is really disturbing. Local reaction there was interestingly pretty much against them.

And of course this is another reason why I dislike local school boards. They should never be allowed to toy with an academic curriculum like that.

[Gamecock]

Lochner v. New York

What is your constitutional basis behind it?

[politicallefty]

I quite like Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association. I'll give a lot of credit to Justice Scalia for a truly great opinion.

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I also note his smackdown of Justice Thomas:

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[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Stambovsky v. Ackley, 572 N.Y.S.2d 672 (N.Y. App. Div. 1st Dep’t 1991) - my new second favorite case.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Come on, give us some details.  Some of us don't have a ghost of an idea why you'd be interested in that case.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

The court held that where a person who had previously expressed to the community that her house was haunted (i.e. Writing aticles about it), and then sold the house to someone from out of town without telling him, that the buyer could rescind the contract since the court would treat the house as legally haunted, and thus the seller did not list all of the conditions of the house that would not be apparent to the buyer. I agree with the holding, but I think it could have been done better so as to not treat the house as legally be haunted, but treat the reputation as a condition that lowered its value (which was their basis for doing what they did... I think they just worded it sloppily).

[Antonio the Sixth]

How come nobody cited Brown v. Board of Education? That's the easy answer for someone like me who doesn't know many cases.

Among the lesser known ones, I'd go with Texas v. Johnson. Anti-flag-burning bullsh*t is among my pet peeves.

Roe v. Wade is a rare case of a decision whose rationale I disagree with (I'm really not fond of loose interpretations of the Constitution), but which I think has done a lot of good to US society.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Lawrence v. Texas was a great decision, obviously, but Kennedy's majority opinion is a fantastic read to boot. Similarly, Stevens' dissent in Bush v. Gore was pretty good too; though the decision itself was atrocious.

[traininthedistance]

A rough top five.  Plenty of good choices to be had, though.

1. McCulloch v. Maryland
2. Brown v. Board of Ed
3. Loving v. Virginia
4. Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency
5. Baker v. Carr

[Badger]

Brown vs. Board, hands down.

Loving v. VA comes after.

Honorrable mention to the case where a man sued Satan in PA. Western District In early 70's. Court found lack of venue among other thiings.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ex_rel._Gerald_Mayo_v._Satan_and_His_Staff

[Badger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ex_rel._Gerald_Mayo_v._Satan_and_His_Staff

That's it! I actually remembered Gerald Mayo the other day out of the blue.

It's a short fun ruling that must've been atreat for some clerk to write. Definitely worth the read, lawyer or not.

[Lief 🗽]

Of the many cases I've read in my first year at law school, I think the Youngstown steel seizure case was the most interesting. I also really love Kennedy's decision Loving v. Texas.

[© tweed]

Of the many cases I've read in my first year at law school, I think the Youngstown steel seizure case was the most interesting. I also really love Kennedy's decision Loving v. Texas.

Lawrence?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Roe v. Wade is a rare case of a decision whose rationale I disagree with (I'm really not fond of loose interpretations of the Constitution), but which I think has done a lot of good to US society.

I'm realizing this situation actually quite common. I definitely do not subscribe to the "liberal" constitutional interpretations which have traditionally been championed by progressive justices and legal analysts. Of course, that doesn't mean I adhere to the conservative vision either.