Court decisions - social policy (U.S.)
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The following list of Supreme Court rulings are of importance in U.S. social policy:
- Baehr v. Lewin
- Bowers v.Hardwick
- Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Gratz v. Bollinger
- Gruter v. Bollinger
- Helvering v. Davis [r]: In a suit brought by a shareholder of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston, in 1937 the court upheld the constitutionality of the compulsory tax of Old Age Insurance on the basis of the general welfare. [e]
- Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley
- Lawrence v. Texas
- Lessard v. Schmidt
- Loving v. Virginia
- Mentor Savings Bank v. Vinson
- Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia
- O'Conner v. Donaldson
- Olmstead v. L.C. & E.W.
- Oncale v. Sundou'ner Offshore Services
- Ozawa v. United States
- Planned Parenthood of S.W. Pennsylvania v. Casey
- Plessey v. Ferguson
- Plyer v. Doe
- Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust
- Quarles v. Phillip Morris
- Quill v. Vacco
- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
- Rodriquez vs. San Antonio School District
- Roe v. Wade
- Romer v. Evans
- Roper v. Simmons
- Silva v. University of New Hampshire
- Springer v. United States
- Sullivan, et. al. v. Bush and Ashcraft, et. al.
- Sutton v. United Airlines
- Tarisoff v. Regents of the University of California
- Toyota Motor Mfg., Ky. v. Williams
- Wyatt v. Stickney