I'm writing a paper and I need to discuss a Supreme Court case that reversed another Supreme Court case. I can't seem to find any other than Brown v. Board of Ed. reversing Plessy v. Ferguson. Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance.
There are scores of such cases. Do you want something less well-known? <u>Katz v. United States</u> (1967) ruled that wiretapping was unconstitutional in that case due to privacy issues, overruling <u>Olmstead v. United States</u> (1928) In turn, Katz was made moot by Congressional action the next year with the passing of Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, which in turn led to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act a decade after that...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AEM @ May 3 2008, 07:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>There are scores of such cases. Do you want something less well-known? <u>Katz v. United States</u> (1967) ruled that wiretapping was unconstitutional in that case due to privacy issues, overruling <u>Olmstead v. United States</u> (1928) In turn, Katz was made moot by Congressional action the next year with the passing of Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, which in turn led to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act a decade after that...</div> Thank you so much! Do you know of any landmark cases that reversed another? I'm not sure if I have to do landmark or if I can do smaller ones as well.
I'd argue that Katz was a landmark - in light of current events - but let me see if I can think of another, even better-known, case.
Another pair that come to mind are <u>Furman v. Georgia </u>(1972) and <u>Gregg v. Georgia</u> (1976) which in turn abolished and restored the death penalty.
