List of court cases

This is a list of significant court cases.

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Table of contents

1 Australian court cases 2 Canadian court cases 3 United Kingdom court cases 3.1 England and Wales 3.2 Scotland 4 United States court cases

Australian court cases

• Gutnick v. Dow Jones

Canadian court cases

• Ford v. Quebec (A.G.)

United Kingdom court cases

England and Wales

• Central London Property Trust Ltd. v. High Trees House Ltd [1947] K.B. 130.
• Walter v. Lane [1900] AC 539, (House of Lords)

Scotland

• Donoghue v. Stevenson, [1932] A.C. 532, [1932] All ER Rep 1

United States court cases

Copyright, patents, etc.

• Bauer & Cie. v. O'Donnell 229 US 1 1913
• Bobbs-Merrill Co v. Straus
• Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music 510 U.S. 569 (1994)
• Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin (2001)
• Eldred v. Ashcroft

Reproduction and abortion:

• Roe v. Wade
• Griswold v. Connecticut
• Doe v. Bolton
• Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
• Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Constitutional law:

• Marbury v. Madison 5 US 137 1803
• United States v. Nixon

Civil rights:

• Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) -- approved racial segregation in public facilities
• Grutter v. Bollinger
• Lawrence v. Texas
• Bowers v. Hardwick
• Baker v. Vermont
• Romer v. Evans 517 US 620 (1996)
• A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935)
• Korematsu v. United States
• Miller v. California 413 US 15 1973
• Lemon v. Kurtzman 403 US 602 (1971)

Note: this list is in the very early stages of being created: please add more leading cases here

See also:

• List of leading legal cases in copyright law
• List of United States Supreme Court cases