Talk:Essay:25 Worst Court Decisions

Just some suggesttions for cases you might want to consider adding to your list:

United States v Callender-upheld the Sedition Act, which made criticizing the gov't a crime

The "Civil Rights" cases (US v Stanley, US v Ryan, etc)-Congress has no power to prohibit private discrimination, the 14th amendment doesn't apply to the federal government

The "Slaughterhouse" cases-The 14th Amendment doesn't apply to state governments

Lochner v New York-the birth of the Substantive Due Process theory, beginning of modern "judicial activism"

Korematsu v US-In time of war, US citizens may be detained without trial merely because of their ancestry --Steve 10:34, 24 July 2007 (EDT)

Good suggestions. I'll add the Callender case immediately, and welcome comments on the others.--Aschlafly 10:52, 24 July 2007 (EDT)

I love the idea of this essay. Clearly there is a lot of judicial activism and legislating from the bench, and this is a great way to really highlight some of the more egregious decisions. I've made an edit, which I hope is ok. SSchultz 01:34, 25 July 2007 (EDT)

Worst?

Shouldn't there be some sort of specified criteria as to what makes a case more bad than any other? Additionally, shouldn't the facts be combined with the legal questions presented to educate the children viewing this site as to what would exactly make a court decision worse than any other? This seems like nothing more than a cheap, political attack at an unfavorable opinion, not a legally erroneous one. --TGlennRet 01:36, 25 July 2007 (EDT)

Epperson v. Arkansas

The decision in that case was not "evolution has to be taught", it was that you could not legally ban evolution from being taught in a public school setting. --_transResident Transfan^form! 11:03, 25 October 2007 (EDT)

Worst Case

I think we should include Plyler v. Doe (1982) That mandated the education of illegal immigrants in public schools. Lukecorlando 20:14, 4 November 2007 (EST)

Wow, what a superb suggestion! That case should be on the list. It was a decision by the liberal Justice William Brennan, I think.

What decision should we take out to make room for it? Some have suggested reducing the duplicate-issue cases. Perhaps we have we could swap out one of the Establishment Clause cases, for example. You choose. Godspeed.--Aschlafly 21:10, 4 November 2007 (EST)