Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.

Holding that mental disability is not a quasi-suspect class

Board of Regents v. Roth

Holding that where a public employee's appointment terminated on a particular date and there was no provision for renewal after that date, the employee "did not have a property interest sufficient to require . . . a hearing when [the officials] declined to renew his contract of employment."

Miller v. California

Holding that a statute regulating obscene speech must be limited to works that depict or describe sexual conduct "which, taken as a whole, appeal to the prurient interest in sex, which portray sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and which, taken as a whole, do not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value"

Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville

Holding vague an ordinance that punished “vagrants,” defined to include “rogues and vagabonds,” “persons who use juggling,” and “common night walkers”

Roth v. United States

Holding that California obscenity statute was not preempted by federal law prohibiting the mailing of obscene material because the state law did not burden or interfere with the federal postal functions

United States v. Harriss

Holding that "[t]he constitutional requirement of definiteness is violated by a criminal statute that fails to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute."

Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners

Holding that a state cannot exclude a person from the practice of law based on failure to satisfy its standards of qualification "when there is no basis for their finding that he fails to meet these standards"

Giaccio v. Pennsylvania

Holding that a jury instruction using the term "some misconduct" could not save a wholly standardless statute permitting the assessment of court costs against an acquitted criminal defendant

Betts v. Brady

Holding that the Sixth Amendment required the appointment of counsel in all federal criminal cases in which the defendant was unable to retain an attorney, but that the Due Process Clause required appointment of counsel in state criminal cases only where “want of counsel ... result[ed] in a conviction lacking in ... fundamental fairness”

Thoreson v. Penthouse Intl

Relying on expressio unius, statutory language, and legislative history to foreclose expansion of listed damages remedies

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