576 U.S. 155 (2015) Cited 1,356 times 26 Legal Analyses
Holding that a town's content-based sign regulation failed strict scrutiny because “[t]he Town cannot claim that placing strict limits on temporary directional signs is necessary to beautify the Town while at the same time allowing unlimited numbers of other types of signs that create the same problem”
517 U.S. 620 (1996) Cited 1,273 times 13 Legal Analyses
Holding unlawful a state law that precluded local ordinances from protecting homosexuals from discrimination because it "seems inexplicable by anything but animus toward the class it affects"
508 U.S. 656 (1993) Cited 1,060 times 2 Legal Analyses
Holding contractors suing over the set-aside of certain state contracts based on race had standing to advance an equal protection claim because they were "able and ready" to bid on the contracts
524 U.S. 417 (1998) Cited 514 times 5 Legal Analyses
Holding that "the power to enact statutes may only be exercised in accord with a single, finely wrought and exhaustively considered, procedure" outlined in Article I
Holding that "a state amendment" regulating ballot access "is unconstitutional when it has the likely effect of handicapping a class of candidates and has the sole purpose of creating additional qualifications indirectly"