LibGuides: United States Supreme Court Research: Landmark Cases

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization & Its Impact

To find additional resources on abortion rights, visit Constitutional Law Research: U.S. States > box: How Do I Track the Status of Abortion Rights in Each U.S. State?

Recent Congressional Research Service Legal Sidebar:

Congressional Research Service, EMTALA Emergency Abortion Care Litigation Over Idaho’s Abortion Restriction Heads to the Supreme Court (Apr. 22, 2024)

Recent BLS Library Book Acquisitions:

Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade by Krystale E. Littlejohn & Rickie Solinger, eds.
Publication Date: 2024
In SARA catalog record for this ebook, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBC. 1 copy available.
Excerpt from this ebook's description: "Fighting Mad is a book about what 'reproductive justice' means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger bring together many of the strongest, most resistant voices in the country to describe the impacts of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision on abortion access and care."
Quasi Person: The Week 24 Abortion Watershed by Pnina Lifshitz-Aviram
Publication Date: 2024
In SARA catalog record, click: "Online resources: Click here to access online." 1 copy available.
Excerpt from Introduction, p. 18: "In this book I discuss only the acute dilemma of whether a viable fetus has a right to be born healthy at the stage of viability, in light of the latest technological developments." Includes discussion of "the important work of the legal scholar Judith Thomson."
Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion by Lee C. Bollinger & Geoffrey Stone, eds.
Publication Date: 2024
Contents: Liberal critics of Roe / David A. Strauss -- Equality emerges as a ground for abortion rights in and after Dobbs / Cary Franklin & Reva Siegel -- Why was Roe v. Wade wrong? / Jonathan Mitchell -- Justice Blackmun got it right in Roe v. Wade / Erwin Chemerinsky -- Abortion, partisan entrenchment, and the Republican Party / Jack M. Balkin -- Some realism about precedent, in the wake of Dobbs / Michael W. McConnell -- The Dobbs gambit : gaslighting at the highest level / Khiara M. Bridges -- Dobbs and the travails of due process traditionalism / Cass R. Sunstein -- Should gradualism have prevailed in Dobbs? / Richard M. Re -- Dobbs' democratic deficits / Melissa Murray & Katherine Shaw -- The failure of Dobbs : the entanglement of abortion bans, criminalized pregnancies, and forced family separation / Dorothy Roberts -- A requiem for Roe : when property has no privacy / Michele Bratcher Goodwin -- Where history fails / Nancy F. Cott -- How contraception and abortion got divorced / Linda Gordon -- The antiabortion movement and the punishment prerogative / Mary Ziegler -- Abortion policy aimed at promoting life as much as possible / Mark Tushnet -- American exceptionalism and the comparative constitutional law of abortion / Tom Ginsburg -- Reproductive technologies and embryo destruction after Dobbs / Glenn Cohen -- Dobbs and our privacies / Aziz Z. Huq & Rebecca Wexler -- The unraveling : what Dobbs may mean for contraception, liberty, and constitutionalism / Martha Minow.
BLS Library provides 1 copy of this ebook. In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBC). ID & password required. Registration required for first-time use. Must be within BLS proxy server.

American Bar Association: Landmark Supreme Court Cases (publicly accessible)

American Bar Association,

Landmark United States Supreme Court Cases
- Describes, and cites to, landmark Supreme Court cases.

HeinOnline: U.S. Supreme Court Library (subscription)

HeinOnline,

U.S. Supreme Court Library > In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (HEIN). Remote access requires use of the BLS proxy server.
- Describes, and links to, landmark Supreme Court cases.

United States Courts: Supreme Court Landmarks (publicly accessible)

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts,

Supreme Court Landmarks
- Describes, and cites to, landmark Supreme Court cases.

Cassettes & DVD in BLS Library: Supreme Court Oral Arguments in Landmark Cases

May It Please the Court: 23 Live Recordings of Landmark Cases Argued Before the Supreme Court by Peter H. Irons & Stephanie Guitton, eds.
Publication Date: 1993
These are audio cassettes in BLS Library's AV collection.
Contents: Baker v. Carr -- United States v. Nixon -- Deshaney v. Winnebago County -- Tape 2. Abington School District v. Schempp -- Edwards v. Aguillard -- Wisconsin v. Yoder -- Cox v. Louisiana -- Tape 3. Tinker v. Des Moines -- Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board -- Texas v. Johnson -- New York Times v. United States -- Tape 4. Gideon v. Wainwright -- Terry v. Ohio -- Miranda v. Arizona -- Gregg v. Georgia -- Tape 5. Cooper v. Aaron -- Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States -- Loving v. Virginia -- Palmer v. Thompson -- Tape 6. Regents v. Bakke -- San Antonio v. Rodriguez -- Roe v. Wade -- Bowers v. Hardwick.
May It Please the Court: The First Amendment: Transcripts of Supreme Court Oral Arguments in 16 Key First Amendment Cases by Peter H. Irons, ed.
Call Number: KF4770 .M35 1997 (Main & AV)
Publication Date: 1997
Book in BLS Library's Main collection + DVD in AV collection.
Contents: Case 1, Abington School District v. Schempp. -- Case 2, County of Allegheny v. ACLU. -- Case 3, Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. -- Case 4, Branzburg v. Hayes. -- Case 5, Cohen v. California. -- Case 6, Employment Division v. Smith. -- Case 7, Hazlewood School District v. Kuhlmeier. -- Case 8, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell. -- Case 9, Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston. -- Case 10, Miller v. California. -- Case 11, New York Times v. Sullivan. -- Case 12, New York Times vs. United States. -- Case 13, R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, Minnesota. -- Case 14, Texas v. Johnson-- Case 15, Tinker v. Des Moines. -- Case 16, United States v. O'Brien.

Books: Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Gibbons v. Ogden, Law and Society in the Early Republic by Thomas H. Cox
Call Number: EBOOK (EBSCO)KF228.G528 C69 2009
Publication Date: 2009
In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBSCO).
Excerpt from book summary: "Gibbons v. Ogden, Law and Society in the Early Republic examines a landmark decision in American jurisprudence, the first Supreme Court case to deal with the thorny legal issue of interstate commerce."
Google v. Oracle: Supreme Court Rules for Google in Landmark Software Copyright Case by Kevin J. Hickey
Publication Date: May 10, 2021
This is a publicly accessible U.S. Congressional Research Service report.
Inside Bush v. Gore by Charley Wells
Call Number: E889 .W45 2013 (Main)
Publication Date: 2013
Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education by William P. Hustwit
Call Number: EBOOK (EBSCO)LC214.22.M7 H87 2019eb
Publication Date: 2019
In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBSCO). Remote access requires BLS proxy server.
Landmark Decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court by James Daley, ed.
Call Number: KF4549 .L36 2006 (Main)
Publication Date: 2006
Contents: Marbury v. Madison (1803) -- Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford (1856) -- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -- Brown v. Board of Education (1954 and 1955) -- Engel v. Vitale (1962) -- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) -- Miranda v. Arizona (1966) -- Roe v. Wade (1973) -- Bush v. Gore (2000) -- Gratz v. Bollinger (2003).
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court by Paul Finkelman & Melvin I. Urofsky
Call Number: KF4549 .F56 2008 (Main)
Publication Date: 2nd ed. 2008
Excerpt from publisher's description: "An important reference that provides the historical context and constitutional perspective of more than 1,000 of the most important Supreme Court cases. "
Marbury v. Madison: The Origins and Legacy of Judicial Review by William E. Nelson
Call Number: KF4575 .N45 2018 (Main)
Publication Date: 2018
New York Times v. Sullivan: Civil Rights, Libel Law, and the Free Press by Kermit L. Hall & Melvin I. Urofsky
Call Number: KF228.N4 H35 2011 (Main)
Publication Date: 2011
Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle Over Sexual Expression by Whitney Strub
Call Number: KF224.R68 S77 2013 (Main)
Publication Date: 2013
Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry: Loving v. Virginia by Peter Wallenstein
Call Number: KF224.L68 W35 2014 (Main)
Publication Date: 2014
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
Call Number: KF4155 .K58 2004 (Main)
Publication Date: 2004
Speaking Freely: Whitney v. California and American Speech Law by Philippa Strum
Call Number: KF224.W543 S777 2015 (Main)
Publication Date: 2015
Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact (combined vol.) by Melvin I. Urofsky
Publication Date: 2012
In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION -- (EBSCO). Remote access requires BLS proxy server.