Preface and introduction : a cocktail [book] of decisions -- Prologue : early times and the early Supreme Court -- The Marshall era of punch and the public house -- The long Taney era of the mint julep -- The Chase era : taxing times -- The Waite era of the grand political saloon -- The Fuller era : a gilded age of cocktails -- The White era and the prohibition amendment -- The Taft era of law, order, and bootlegging -- The gin cocktail party of the Hughes era -- The Stone era : rumbustion -- The old-fashioned Vinson era -- The Warren era : swanky swilling -- The Burger era : twilight of the cocktail lounge -- The Rehnquist era of neotemperance -- The retro Roberts era : running a tab -- Epilogue : a return to normalcy cocktail.