Boston College: Bigelow v. Virginia

Does your vote really count? This activity helps young voters learn about the electoral college through a TED talk, a helpful handout, discussion prompts, and then a role-playing activity that has participants simulating...

Brief overview of the Bigelow v. Virginia (1975) Supreme Court case.

Read the decision of this landmark Supreme Court decision involving the 1917 Espionage Act Schenck v. United States (1919).

Full decision from the Branzburg v. Hayes United States Supreme Court case.

Read the text of court opinions regarding the 1951 Feiner v. New York Case. Includes footnotes to Justice Hugo Black's opinion.

Full syllabus and decision from the Dennis v. United States Supreme Court case.

Complete syllabus and opinion of the Gitlow v. New York United States Supreme Court case.

Full-text edition of the entire decision in the Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson case.

Boston College offers complete information on the famous Supreme Court case of United States v. O'Brien.

Transcript of a Supreme Court decision, from 1957, in Roth v United States, a case that weighed constitutional freedoms of speech and the rights of individuals to own and distribute materials deemed by the government to be obscene.