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This ACLU Three-Volume Compendium (8½”x11″ size) contains 1½-page summaries of each of the ACLU’s 1,193 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Union’s first 100 years, from 1920 to 2020. The set will be published September 16, 2025.
– Conceived and Compiled by Steven C. Markoff.
– Foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky
– Case Summary Editor Jessica Pierucci, J.D., M.L.I.S.
No one, not even the ACLU, has this compendium of 1,193 ACLU cases before the Supreme Court the ACLU was involved in during 94 of its first 100 years.
The Three-volume compendium includes a Foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law), Ira Glasser’s (ACLU National Executive Director from 1978 – 2001) 1982 draft one-pager on what the ACLU does, data on how each Supreme Court Justice voted on each case, and the Win / Loss record (the batting average) of the ACLU at the Supreme Court for those 10 decades.
To be published by Rare Bird Lit, Los Angeles, September 16, 2025.
Links to previews of the Sections and Chapters in Volume 1
1. ACLU Interior Cover Page (not numbered)
2. Overview of the U.S. Supreme Court (first page following cover page)
3. This Three-Volume Set Versus the Companion Handbook (with picture, pg. v)
4. Volume 1: Table of Contents (pg. vii)
5. Foreword (by Erwin Chemerinsky) (pg. ix)
6. Background (by Author) (pg. 1)
7. I. The ACLU-An Overview (Pros and Cons)(first page only, pg. 3)
8. II. Ira Glasser’s 1982 Draft Statement Describing the ACLU (pg. 7)
9. III. Win/Loss Record of the ACLU at SCOTUS by Count and Decade (pg. 9)
10. IV. The ACLU’s Wins and Losses at SCOTUS (Alphabetically by Case Title)(first page only, pg. 11)
11. V. Votes of Each Justice on Each ACLU/SCOTUS Case from 1925 to 2019 (by Date)(first page only, pg. 41)
12. VI. A Summary of the Voting Record of Each U.S Supreme Court Justice in ACLU Cases From 1925 to 2019 (first page only, pg. 89)
13. VII. Presidents and the Favorable ACLU Voting Percentage of the Justice(s) They Nominated (first page only, pg. 99)
14. VIII. The Number and Percentage of Votes on the ACLU’s Side by the Justice(s) Nominated by Each of the 19 Presidents (pg. 103)
15. IX. The Executive Directors of the ACLU from 1920 to 2020 (pg. 105)
16. X. Questions & Conclusion (pg. 107)
17. Appendix A. Methodology(first page only, pg. 109)
18. Appendix B. General Categories of the ACLU/SCOTUS Cases (pg. 111)
19. Appendix C. ACLU/U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries (Sample Case Summary 1. Gitlow v. New York) (first two pages only, pgs. 113-114)
20. Acknowledgments (pg. 607)
21. About the Author (pg. 609)