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• Bush v. Gore (2000)
  ...federal statutes can supersede state election laws and decisions of state supreme courts interpreting those state laws. ...es. After a series of decisions by lower state courts, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the selective recounts should continue in the presidential race,
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• Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
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• Capital Punishment
  ...cal failure could be forced to endure another attempted electrocution. The Court, noting that “[a]ccidents happen for which no man is to blame,” permitt ...nition of the right to competent counsel in state capital proceedings. The Court reversed another conviction obtained in the ''Scottsboro'' case because it
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• Carter v. Carter Coal Company (1936)
  ...rative federalism]]. In this latter conception, the national government is supreme and is not forbidden from using its powers to affect the constitutional spa ...anklin Roosevelt’s]] court-packing scheme. The following year, 1937, the Court changed directions and supported the national supremacy view of federalism.
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• Champion v. Ames (1903)
  ...on v. Ames'' (1903), the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] sustained a federal statute that made it illegal to transport lottery tic In later cases, the Court upheld the power of Congress to enact the Pure Food and Drug Act (''[[Hipol
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• Charles River Bridge Company v. Warren Bridge Company (1837)
  ...ohn|John Marshall]], the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] interpreted the Contract Clause broadly to include public charters as wel [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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• Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)
  ...and specifies that the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction in cases in which a state shall be a party. ...however, disagreed with Hamilton and held that it had jurisdiction in such cases whether or not the state had given its consent to be sued. The decision rai
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• City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
  ...ho had dissented strongly two years before in ''Braunfeld'', wrote for the Court in ''Sherbert v. Verner''. Here it was held that government could refuse an ...terest test. This set the stage for the collision between Congress and the Court in ''Flores''.
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• Civil Rights Act of 1875
  ...rom the violation of the provisions of the act reviewable by the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. In 1883, the Supreme Court declared the 1875 Act unconstitutional on the ground that, to cite part of
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• Civil War
  ...tution|Constitution]], which permits the suspension of the writ “when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” Taney argued ...e upon which he justified the imposition of martial law and the particular cases where he exercised it, Lincoln’s actions were more restrained than the se
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• Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
  ...ictional point, and that the Supreme Court could not adjudicate appeals in cases when a state was a party. Such a practice, in effect, would immunize state ...itizens of Maryland who were convicted of a criminal offense by a Virginia court. The constitutional ban on extending “the Judicial power of the United St
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• Cole v. Arkansas (1948)
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• Colegrove v. Green (1946)
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• Commerce among the States
  ...or limits on its branches, allowing considerable room for disagreement and Court interpretations over the centuries of this very important power. In additio ...te commerce among the states. In large part, these issues still occupy the Court.
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• Commerce with Foreign Nations
  ...on|Constitution]], has not caused the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Court]] to deal with the definitional problems, controversy, or direct conflict w ...mant foreign commerce power, like its domestic counterpart, both drew upon cases involving foreign commerce, and continued to be invoked with similar result
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• Contract Clause
  ...rincipal vehicle by which the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] vindicated the rights of property owners against state abridgement. A cha ...ntracts, including state tax exemptions to business. More importantly, the Court in ''[[Dartmouth College v. Woodward]]'' (1819) concluded that the grant of
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• Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852)
  ...a to hire a local pilot. States may regulate interstate commerce, said the Court in an opinion authored by Justice Benjamin Curtis, as long as there is no p ...ople. The congressional power to regulate interstate commerce, however, is supreme when exercised and all conflicting state laws are void. Marshall, however,
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• Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council (2000)
  ...osby'' case (2000) represents perhaps the [[Rehnquist, William|Rehnquist]] Court’s most important encounter with the intersection between [[federalism]], ...by Japan and the European Union before the World Trade Organization), the Court found that the state law thwarted Congress’s intent for the nation to spe
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• Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health (1990)
  ...ment of Health'' (1990) was a [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] case concerning the so-called right to die. Nancy Cruzan was a 32-year-ol [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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• Darby Lumber Company v. United States (1941)
  ...luding manufacturing) engaged in interstate commerce. In its decision, the Court explicitly overruled ''[[Hammer v. Dagenhart]]'' (1918) and dismissed argum [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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