Please note that you may take one sheet of notes into the exam with you.

In addition to the cases from the first half of the course (up to Downes v. Bidwell), you should have some familiarity with the following, listed more or less in the order we have covered them:

Minor v. Happersett
Chae Chan Ping v. United States
Lochner v. New York
Hammer v. Dagenhart
United States v. Butler
16th – 17th – 18th – 19th Amendments
Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish
Wickard v. Filburn
United States v. Carolene Products
Williamson v. Lee Optical Co.
Korematsu v. United States
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
Ex Parte Quirin
Brown I, Brown II, Bolling v. Sharpe,
Green v. New Kent County School Board
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
Milliken v. Bradley
Missouri v. Jenkins (especially Justice Thomas’s concurrence)
Gratz v. Bollinger
Grutter v. Bollinger
Griswold v. Connecticut
Roe v. Wade
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
Stenberg v. Carhart
Bowers v. Hardwick
Lawrence v. Texas
Roemer v. Evans
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States / Katzenbach v. McClung
United States v. Lopez

You can expect some questions on at least the following: the court's approach to economic legislation before and after 1937; the court's approach to civil liberties during war time; equal protection -- the meaning of Brown and the path of school desegregation cases; equal protection -- affirmative action; liberty and due process -- abortion and sexual privacy; the question of gay rights and the Supreme Court; the relationship between the commerce clause and the Title II of 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the Supreme Court's current approach to federalism and the commerce power.