the Constitution

A blanket search warrant is a broad authorization from a judge that allows the police to search multiple areas for evidence without specifying exactly what they are looking for and seize everything found.

Blue law is a colloquial term for a state statute or ordinance that forbids or regulates entertainment and commercial activities (e.g. the sale of liquor) on Sundays or religious holidays.

In Board of Education v. Earls, 536 U.S. 822 (2002), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Tecumseh, Oklahoma School District’s policy requiring all students participating in extracurricular activities to consent to random drug testing did not violate the Fourth Amendment.

Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986) is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court considered whether a person had a constitutional right to engage in consensual homosexual sex acts.

Boy Scouts of America et al. v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000) is a U.S.

The Brandenburg test was established in Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969), to define when speech intendending to advocate illegal action can be restricted under the First Amendment.

• constitutional law
• freedom of speech
• free speech

A burden is a generic term referring to a restriction on use or activity. Often, the term arises in property law. For instance, real property may carry an intangible burden in the form of covenants or easements.

Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000) was a major decision from the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States regarding Florida’s recount of ballots cast in the United States 2000 presidential election.

• elections

A capital offense is a criminal charge that is punishable by the death penalty. It is not necessary that the actual punishment imposed was the death penalty, but rather a capital office is classified as such if the permissible punishment prescribed by the legislature for the offense is the death penalty.

A case is a civil or criminal proceeding at law or in equity.