constitutional law

Furman v. Georgia (1972) is a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment in death penalty cases.

Gerrymandering is the drawing of political or electoral districts for the purpose of making it easier for an incumbent party to remain in power. This practice often results in districts with bizarre shapes.

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) was a Supreme Court case that famously expounded upon the powers of the commerce clause, setting the precedent of Congress’s broad ability to regulate interstate and some intrastate commerce. 

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Gideon v Wainwright, is a U.S.

Gitlow v. New York is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the First Amendment right to free speech applied to state laws under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Gonzalez v Raich is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Congress had the right to outlaw medical marijuana, even in states that had laws expressly allowing it. The Supreme Court, relying upon its earlier decision in Wickard v.

Good faith provides an exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule barring the use at trial of evidence obtained pursuant to an unlawful search and seizure.

The government speech doctrine is a principle of constitutional law which says that, although the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause limits government regulation of private speech, it does not restrict the government when the government speaks for itself.

A grand jury is a group of people selected to sit on a jury that decide whether the prosecutor’s evidence provides probable cause to issue an indictment.

Greg v Georgia is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which it was held that death penalty for murder was not in and of itself a cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.