The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides, among other things, that ‘‘in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.’’

Does the First Amendment prevent a school district from disciplining a high school student for giving a lewd speech at a school assembly?

An individual is in custody, for purposes of Miranda v. Arizona, when a reasonable person in the suspect’s position would have believed himself in custody.

Berger v. New York addressed questions pertaining to the Fourth Amendment. This decision overruled the precedent set by Olmstead v. United States.

The double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment provides that no person shall ‘‘be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.’’

As soon as the ink was dry on the Supreme Court’s opinion in Roe v. Wade, many state legislatures passed laws to limit a woman’s ability to get an abortion, or to at least place hurdles in her way.

Isadore Bellis was a partner in a small law firm who received a grand jury subpoena for the financial records of the partnership and sought to resist producing them by asserting his Fifth Amendment selfincrimination privilege.

When a local government zones, it typically classifies land uses according to use type (residential, commercial, industrial, etc.), and then regulates uses within each classification according to height and density.

One of the central issues in free exercise clause jurisprudence has been the question of whether the state is obliged to give individuals exemptions from government regulations that interfere with their free exercise of religion.

From the time of the first European settlements in the early 1600s, the lumber industry has been vital to the growth of the nation.

One of the first American tobacco producers, the company was founded by Pierre Lorillard (1742–76). Born in France, Lorillard immigrated to the United States and established an operation for curing tobacco on Chatham Street in New York City in 1760.

A giant hedge fund in Greenwich, Connecticut, the nearcollapse of which in September 1998 shook Wall Street and drew public attention to the role of hedge funds in the marketplace. 

Robert Livingston was born in New York City on November 27, 1746, the scion of an influential colonial family with roots dating to the 17th century.

Born in Iowa to Welsh immigrant parents, Lewis became a miner while still in his teens. In his late 20s, he began serving in the UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA (UMWA) and became acting president of the union in 1919.

A suburban town on Long Island, New York, that was the first purpose-built suburb in the United States. The town was built by Levitt & Sons, a family-run firm founded in 1929 that first conceived the idea in 1947.

An INVESTMENT BANKING house founded by Henry Lehman in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1845 as a dry goods merchandiser. Lehman was born in Germany in 1821 and immigrated to Alabama, where he established his general merchandise store.

Lee is generally considered the father of modern public and corporate relations. Born in Georgia, Lee attended Emory University and graduated from Princeton in 1898. After doing postgraduate work at Harvard Law School he dropped out when his money ran out.

An INVESTMENT BANKING company founded in New Orleans in 1848 by Alexandre, Lazare, and Simon Lazard, originally as a dry goods store.

The Becker amendment was one of the more significant congressional attempts to overturn an unpopular holding of the U.S. Supreme Court.

In Beauharnais v. Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the validity of a 1917 Illinois group libel statute, finding that such speech fell outside the protections of the First Amendment.

Indigents who were eligible for financial assistance under Title XIX of the Social Security Act’s Medicaid program challenged a Pennsylvania statute that denied funding for their desired abortions.

In Batson v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court addressed how a criminal defendant can establish that a prosecutor used a peremptory challenge against a prospective juror of the defendant’s race on the basis of race.

Two recent law graduates opened a law practice, which they called the ‘‘Legal Clinic of Bates and O’Steen.’’

Plaintiffs, a union president and a chief negotiator, had a cellular phone conversation in which threats were made against school board members.