District of Columbia et al. v. Heller

Holding it irrelevant to the constitutionality of D.C.'s "handgun" ban that the law allowed citizens the possession of substitutes, like "long guns"

Franchise Tax Bd. v. Laborers Vacation Trust

Holding that a case may not be removed to federal court on the basis of a preemption defense even where "both parties admit that the defense is the only question truly at issue in the case"

Johnson v. U.S.

Holding that 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) ’s nearly identical "physical force" clause "means violent force—that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another person"

McDonald v. City of Chicago

Holding that the Second Amendment applies to the states, through incorporation under the Fourteenth Amendment

Warth v. Seldin

Holding that Article III requires plaintiffs "to establish that, in fact, the asserted injury was the consequence of the defendants' actions"

Washington v. Glucksberg

Holding that there is no fundamental right to physician-assisted suicide

Bailey v. United States

Holding that Government must show active employment of firearm to support § 924(c) conviction

Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Corp.

Holding that plaintiffs need show only that "a discriminatory purpose has been a motivating factor in the decision," because, after all, "[r]arely can it be said that a legislature or administrative body operating under a broad mandate made a decision motivated solely by a single concern, or even that a particular purpose was the ‘dominant’ or ‘primary’ one."

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey

Holding that a spousal notification provision was unconstitutional

Reno v. Flores

Holding that, in the immigration context, minors aged sixteen or seventeen are not "too young or too ignorant to exercise" their right to make a revocable waiver of a removal or deportation hearing

Section 924 - Penalties

Holding that conviction for eluding police, under Maine statute which provides that "[w]hoever, after being requested or signaled to stop, attempts to elude a law enforcement officer by driving a vehicle at a reckless rate of speed which results in a high-speed chase between the operator's vehicle and any law enforcement vehicle using a blue light and siren is guilty" of a felony-level crime, involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)

Section 922 - Unlawful acts

Finding that "even before the sale of a firearm, the gun, its component parts, ammunition, and the raw materials from which they are made have considerably moved in interstate commerce"

Section 2201 - Creation of remedy

Granting district courts the authority to create a remedy with the force of a final judgment

Section 921 - Definitions

Adopting this definition

Section 925 - Exceptions: Relief from disabilities

Granting district courts discretion to restore firearms rights for felons upon the denial of a petition by the Attorney General

Section 3-202 - Assault in the first degree

Prohibiting an assault with a firearm

Section 3-203 - Assault in the second degree

Defining second-degree assault

Section 925A - Remedy for erroneous denial of firearm

Stating that a plaintiff must bring an action "against the State or political subdivision responsible for providing the erroneous information"

Section 11 - Foreign government defined

Section 10-201 - Disturbing the public peace and disorderly conduct

Criminalizing the willful failure to obey a police officer's reasonable and lawful order