This is a list of cases reported in volume 268 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1925. Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 268 U.S. The Supreme Court is established by Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which says: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court . . .". The size of the Court is not specified; the Constitution leaves it to Congress to set the number of justices. Under the Judiciary Act of 1789 Congress originally fixed the number of justices at six (one chief justice and five associate justices). Since 1789 Congress has varied the size of the Court from six to seven, nine, ten, and back to nine justices (always including one chief justice). When the cases in volume 268 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members: Notable Cases in 268 U.S. Linder v. United States Linder v. United States, 268 U.S. 5 (1925), involved the applicability of the Harrison Act. The Harrison Act was originally a taxing measure on drugs such as morphine and cocaine, but later effectively became a prohibition on such drugs. The Act, however, had a provision exempting doctors who prescribed the drugs. Dr. Charles Linder prescribed the drugs to addicts in Oklahoma, which the federal government said was not a legitimate medical practice. He was prosecuted and convicted. Linder appealed, and the Supreme Court overturned his conviction, holding that the federal government in this case had overstepped its power to regulate medicine. Pierce v. Society of Sisters In Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925), the Supreme Court overturned an Oregon statute requiring children to attend only public schools. The decision significantly expanded coverage of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to recognize personal civil liberties. The decision has been cited as a precedent in numerous later cases. The right of parents to control their children's education without state interference became a "cause célèbre" following the case, and religious groups still defend this right from state encroachment. Gitlow v. New York Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925), is a landmark decision, in which the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution had extended the First Amendment's provisions protecting freedom of