This casebook offers instructors maximum pedagogical freedom to craft an exciting course using seminal U.S. Supreme Court cases, legal scholarship, social science research, interdisciplinary essays, and over 175 illuminating problems. Building on the strengths of the earlier editions, the Fifth Edition features relevant excerpts of law review articles, as well as significant media reports (which includes insights from respected legal experts and other commentary), noteworthy state and lower federal court decisions, emergent social science research, illustrative web links, and multiple, hypothetical problem-solving opportunities throughout a text that maintains its relevance and user-friendly structure for new and old adopters alike.