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How to Find a Supreme Court DecisionA law library, or even the library in your local courthouse, may have morethan a thousand volumes containing legal cases. How can you find informationabout a particular Supreme Court case? If you know the parties in a case, youcan look in a “Digest” of cases. If you look up “Olmstead,” for example, youwill find “Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438.” This citation means thatthe report of the Olmstead decision begins on page 438 of volume 277 of theUnited States Reports.Reports discussing Supreme Court legal cases are published by theGovernment Printing Office several times each year and date back to the veryfirst year of the Court’s history. Possibly an easier way to locate a case is byusing the Internet. A federal government home page will allow you to choosethe Supreme Court’s Web site. From there it is simple to locate cases if youknow the parties or even the approximate year the case was decided.Research a Case Choose an interesting Supreme Court case from the past tenyears, and research it. Take notes, and prepare to share your findings withthe class.away with doing something that harms the public at large is the basis forevery public policy decision made.Violations of Public PolicyIf an activity harms the health, safety, welfare, or morals of thepublic, that activity violates public policy. The most common agreementsthat violate public policy include the following:l Agreements that involve an unreasonable restraint of trade , or alimitation on the full exercise of doing business with others—Contracts not to compete—Price-fixing agreements, or competitors’ agreements on certainprice ranges within which to set their own prices—Agreements to defeat competitive bidding, or the process in whichrivals submit bids for a projectlAgreements to obstruct justiceChapter 9: Legality 195