As an eighth grader in a Long Island suburb in the 1950s, Daniel Roth didn’t want to recite a prayer with the rest of his class in public school. Growing up on a farm in Wisconsin in the 1960s, Vernon Yutzy saw no reason to protest when his parents followed Amish religious tradition and refused to send him to public school after eighth grade. Roth’s and Yutzy’s experiences as children led to two landmark First Amendment cases: Engel v. Vitale, in which the US Supreme Court found school-sponsored prayer in public schools to be unconstitutional, and Wisconsin v.
In April 1979, Congress enacted a comprehensive law to continue and promote the full-range of friendly contacts with the Republic of China on Taiwan which the United States had enjoyed. before Jimmy Carter broke diplomatic relations with that nation
Recently, substantial public attention has focused on the supposed need to apply antitrust law more vigorously to address problems caused by today’s “winner-take-all” economy.
In 1972, justices handed down a decision that attacked discriminatory and capricious death sentences. But it left the door ajar for states to continue the practice.
Douglas: “Society wins not only when the guilty are convicted, but when criminal trials are fair; our system of the administration of justice suffers when any accused is treated unfairly.”