PBS' series on the Supreme Court offers this interactive timeline showing important dates in Supreme Court history. Clicking on the date gives more information about cases being decided around that specific time. A great resource.

Read this concise discussion of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Plessy v Ferguson. Find a synopsis of the case, the majority opinion of the court, and the dissenting opinion by Justice Harlan.

Biographical information about Supreme Court Justise Samuel Alito. Included in this site from the Cornell Law School is a link to Justice Alito's recent court decisions.

Students will analyze one of four Supreme Court cases that relate to the constitutional rights of women decided between 1908-2005. Students will become mini-experts on one Supreme Court cases and they will be exposed to the content,...

Read a brief biography of Supreme Court Justice, Stephen Breyer. Included is a link to the recent decisions in which Justice Breyer was involved, including opinions, concurrences, and dissents. From the Cornell University Law School.

This site serves as an index to Supreme Court cases that have been decided during the current court term. The links to each case provide the information pertaining to that individual case.

Objectives for this lesson include describing the structure and function of the Supreme Court, looking at important decisions, and discussing recent rulings and issues.

In this tutorial, students learn about the Supreme Court and look at two famous cases to see the impact that its decisions have had on the rights of Americans.

Educational interactive activity where users create a timeline of landmark Supreme Court cases. Provides information, facts, and related resources for each case.

Content includes the complete text of the 1877 Supreme Court case of Munn v. Illinois dealing with corporate rates and agriculture.

The Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States. It was set up by our Constitution to make important decisions about the law. This article describes how the Supreme Court works, and its impact on American justice. It also...

An explanation of the Supreme Court decision in 1911 that broke up the monopoly of Standard Oil, charged with unreasonable restraint of trade. Read commentary that claimed that the decision did not really increase competition in the oil...

Interactive activity that takes everyday situations in the life of a teenager and matches them with related Supreme Court decisions along with giving a brief synopsis of the correct answer. See if you can identify each correct case.

This is the court's decision in the Zablocki v Redhail case (1978), concerning the right to marry.

This New York Times site contains biographies of every US Supreme Court Chief Justice including early life, famous decisions, and opinions.

Find a summary of each Supreme Court from the Jay Court, 1789-1795, through the Rehnquist Court, 1986-2005. Read about the major decisions and what was happening in the country at the time.

This site is from a unit called 'African-Americans in the Land of Equality.' It looks at the 1954 decision by the Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended school segregation.

PBS offers a synopsis of the landmark Supreme Court cases of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger which "affirmed and refined its position on affirmative action".

A website reviewing the Supreme Court's landmark cases, including Marbury v. Madison, Plessy v. Ferguson and the Slaughterhouse cases.

Students will research assigned Supreme Court cases and write a case summary. Students will create podcasts of their summaries. Summaries will be added to class website for future students to access.

Use this site to learn all about this Supreme Court decision that dealt with interstate commerce. View an image of the original document and read the complete text.

Here you will find the primary source text of the case and the opinions of the Supreme Court Justices in the Scott v Sandford case which ultimately ruled on the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise.

A listing of the most significant Supreme Court cases in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with brief summaries of how they impacted on federalism.

Presents key ideas for examining the impact of Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Marshall on the powers of the federal government. Includes an activity at end of presentation.