trials, litigation, etc

Provides comprehensive information about the West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette First Amendment case, and explains why and how the verdict upheld U.S. citizens' First Amendment rights.

Presents a series of essays exploring the history, controversies, and key issues of the Brown v. Board of Education Trial, in which the Supreme Court upheld the plaintiffs' argument that racial segregation of schools was unconstitutional. Includes personal narratives, a chronology, and a list of additional resources.

In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess. But it wasn't her crime which shocked the nation, it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass for a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fianc?e, Freda Ward. When their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden to ever speak again. Freda adjusted to this with an ease that stunned the heartbroken Alice. Alice's subsequent letters went unanswered and on January 25, 1892, Alice publicly slashed Freda's throat. Alice spent months in jail and a jury eventually declared her insane and she was placed in an asylum where she died under mysterious circumstances just a few years later.

"Forcing the Spring begins on Election Night 2008, when a controversial California ballot initiative called Proposition 8--which removed the right of gay men and women to marry--passed alongside Barack Obama's stunning victory. Forcing the Spring details how a small but determined group of political and media insiders took the fight for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court. Gay activists and Hollywood liberals joined together to enlist attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies--the opposing counsels on the Supreme Court's infamous Bush v. Gore ruling--to bring a controversial legal case against Proposition 8 before the highest court in the land. Forcing the Spring is the extraordinary ringside account of this unprecedented effort to shift public opinion and reengineer the political certainties of an era"--.

Samantha Geimer recounts the day she was sexually abused by film director Roman Polanski, and discusss the trial, Polanski's fleeing the United States and the life events that have occured since that afternoon.

Provides comprehensive information about the Schenck v. United States First amendment case, and explains why and how the verdict upheld U.S. citizens' first amendment rights.

Explores the details of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown versus the Board of Education in 1954 that ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional.

Recounts the 2005 murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen, who in 1964, was involved in the killing of three civil rights worker in Philadelphia, Mississippi, retracing the cycle of events, prosecution and defense strategies, and the verdict that sentenced the elderly Killen to 180 years in prison.

Presents the film version and Cliff's Notes for Lawrence and Lee's play "Inherit the Wind," in which a Tennessee high school educator is jailed for teaching evolution, bringing legal legends Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryant to wrangle over the merits of the case in a drama based on the real Scopes Trial.