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Felix Frankfurter remains something of an enigma. An activist in early life, after his appointment to the Supreme Court, he came to stand for a restraint that seemed at odds with his past. The opinions he wrote while he was on the Court also often seem to contradict each other. In the case of Gomillion v. Lightfoot, Charles G. Gomillion, a Black citizen of Tuskegee, Alabama, sued Phil M. Lightfoot, Tuskegee’s mayor, along with other city and county officials over a gerrymandering scheme that changed city boundaries in a way that deprived almost all Tuskegee’s registered African American voters of their franchise in municipal elections while not taking the right to vote away from a single white citizen.
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- Marbury v. Madison
- Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
- Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- Cohens v. Virginia
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- Worcester v. Georgia
- Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
- United States v. Amistad
- Prigg v. Pennsylvania
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Ableman v. Booth
- Ex parte Milligan
- Slaughterhouse Cases
- United States v. Cruikshank
- Reynolds v. United States
- Civil Rights Cases
- Elk v. Wilkins
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- United States v. Wong Kim Ark
- Lochner v. New York
- Muller v. Oregon
- Frank v. Mangum
- Guinn v. United States
- Hammer v. Dagenhart
- Schenck v. United States
- Abrams v. United States
- Whitney v. California
- Olmstead v. United States
- Powell v. Alabama
- A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States
- United States v. Curtiss-Wright
- National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
- West Coast Hotel v. Parrish
- Cantwell v. Connecticut
- Wickard v. Filburn
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
- Korematsu v. United States
- Sweatt v. Painter
- Dennis v. United States
- Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Hernandez v. Texas
- Gomillion v. Lightfoot
- Mapp v. Ohio
- Baker v. Carr
- Engel v. Vitale
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Katzenbach v. McClung
- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
- Griswold v. Connecticut
- Bond v. Floyd
- Miranda v. Arizona
- South Carolina v. Katzenbach
- Loving v. Virginia
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
- New York Times Co. v. United States
- Flood v. Kuhn
- Furman v. Georgia
- San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
- Sierra Club v. Morton
- Roe v. Wade
- Milliken v. Bradley
- United States v. Nixon
- Craig v. Boren
- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
- Frontiero v. Richardson
- Texas v. Johnson
- United States v. Lopez
- United States v. Virginia
- Clinton v. Jones
- Bush v. Gore
- Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Environmental Services
- Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
- Lawrence v. Texas
- District of Columbia v. Heller
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
- Shelby County v. Holder
- Obergefell v. Hodges
- Bostock v. Clayton County
- Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization