The First 100 Years of the ACLU Before the United States Supreme Court

A Three-Volume Compendium of Advocacy Before the United States Supreme Court – Coming in mid-2025

This ACLU Three-volume Compendium contains 1 ½-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 by June 2025.

IMAGES: Image left is the working draft; Image right is what the final books will be like, high-quality printing with gold lettering.

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.

Available at Rare Bird Lit and other online booksellers, such as: Amazon and BN.com

HANDBOOK – The First 100 Years Of The ACLU: A Compendium Of Advocacy Before The United States Supreme Court, became available January 2023. It received a Los Angeles Book Festival runner up award in the Wildcard Category in April 2024.

The sole difference between the handbook and the three-volume set is that the handbook contains only three of the 1,193 cases in the three-volume set.

2024 Los Angeles Book Festival Winner – Wildcard Runner Up

Published by Rare Bird Lit, Los Angeles.