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• Abortion
  ...s interest in the life of the fetus and the health of the woman. While the Court undeniably reinforced its support of the constitutional core of  ''Roe'' ...ened. Further, a jurisprudential conflict exists as to whether the Supreme Court via  ''Roe''  and its progeny violates the tenets of [[federalism]], an
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• Alphabetical List of Entries
  * [[Original Jurisdiction of Supreme Court]] * [[Roberts Court]]
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• Articles of Confederation (full document)
  ...speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Congress, and the members of Congress shall be protected in ...d establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of Congress shall be appointed a judge
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• Topical List
  ===Supreme Court Cases=== category = Supreme Court Cases
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• Adamson v. California (1947)
  ...appeal was taken to the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]]. ...nt]]. Relying largely on the ''Twining'' case, the majority of the Supreme Court affirmed Dewey Adamson’s conviction and rejected the argument of his coun
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• Fourteenth Amendment
  ...s, known as [[Black Codes]], intended to regulate the freedmen and in many cases reduce them to a state of quasi-slavery. These laws imposed many special di ...se Cases'' of 1873. In these cases, Justice Samuel Miller, writing for the Court majority, adhered to the minimal change view; in dissent Justice Stephen Fi
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• American Indians and Federalism
  ..., moves were made by the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] and Congress to move tribal governments to a less prominent position rela ...s relative to state governments was established in ''Worcester''. Here the Court established that state law has no force within Indian borders and that all
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• Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922)
  ...er v. Dagenhart'' (1918), the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] invalidated the federal Keating-Owen Child Labor Act, which had forbidden Speaking for the Court, Chief Justice William Howard Taft found that the present law, like its pre
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• Baker v. Carr (1962)
  ...[Fourteenth Amendment]] to the [[U.S. Constitution]]. The federal district court applied the precedent from ''[[Colegrove v. Green]]'' (1946) and dismissed ...ned, thus opening the window for “judicial resolution of reapportionment cases.” However, this decision was most significant because it established that
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• Baldwin v. Montana Fish and Game Commission (1978)
  ...itality of the Nation as a single entity.” Elk hunting, according to the Court, does not fit into that category. The decision is also interesting because [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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• South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. (2018)
  In ''South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., et al.'' (2018), the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled that a state can require sellers with no physical presence in the s ...Court. In a five-to-four decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court set aside the physical-presence rule required by ''Bellas Hess'' and ''Quil
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• Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
  ...appealed his case to the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]]. ...f Baltimore or the State of Maryland, Barron’s case was dismissed by the Court for lack of jurisdiction.
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• Benton v. Maryland (1969)
  [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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• Bill of Rights
  ...us crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual serv ...served, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.''
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• Brandeis, Louis D.
  ...data showing the bad effects on women of working too many hours. When the Court unanimously upheld the law, it paid tribute to Brandeis’s arguments and, ...was in cases involving freedom of speech, and he often dissented in those cases along with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The issue in contention was Ho
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• Brennan, William J., Jr.
  ...rennan Jr. served on the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] from 1956 to 1990, and during his tenure he influenced [[federalism]] in When Brennan joined the Court, he quickly picked up the mantle of incorporation—the effort to make the
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• Bronson v. Kinzie (1843)
  ...oreclosed mortgages. The [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]], speaking through Chief Justice [[Taney, Roger Brooke|Roger Brooke Taney] ...Bronson v. Kinzie,” in ''Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court'' (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2008), 68–69.
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• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
  ...d by new Chief Justice Earl Warren and presaged a more activist era in the Court’s history. ...ars, park benches, water fountains, restrooms, and bibles for witnesses in court. Southern (and other) states also maintained segregated public schools.
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• Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal (1973)
  ...nted noise. A closely divided [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] held the ordinance invalid because Congress had preempted state and local
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• Burger, Warren Earl
  ...resident promising to appoint “strict constructionists” to the Supreme Court, nominated Burger to be chief justice. He was confirmed by the Senate by a ...as, he led the Court far beyond what the Warren Court had done. The Burger Court, for example, upheld busing as a remedy for school segregation, gave new me
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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)
  [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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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)
  [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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• Colegrove v. Green (1946)
  [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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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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• Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
  [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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• De Jonge v. Oregon (1937)
  [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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• Deregulation
  ...action. For example, the 1877 [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] case ''Munn v. Illinois'' gave states the power to regulate prices of fir ...its case (''United States v. Microsoft Corporation''). Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, such as ''North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC'
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• Diversity of Citizenship Jurisdiction
  ...es is sometimes described as “alienage jurisdiction,” although federal court power over both of these two categories falls under the umbrella term “di ...use state courts would be prejudiced against out-of-state parties. Federal court jurisdiction was thought necessary to provide a neutral, impartial forum fo
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• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
  ...se]] Law (1820), slavery was forbidden. He sued for his freedom in federal court, but Taney ruled that since slavery is expressly affirmed in the Constituti [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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• Dual Federalism
  ...]] dealt with conflicts between the national and state governments in many cases, including ''[[McCulloch v. Maryland]]'' (1819), ''[[Gibbons v. Ogden]]'' ( ...vernments faced two obstacles to controlling large firms: first, a Supreme Court that favored laissez-faire economic theory over state regulatory powers; an
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• Duncan v. Louisiana (1968)
  [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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• Dunn v. Blumstein (1972)
  ...not an overriding reason to curtail a right as fundamental as voting. The Court pointed out that [[U.S. Congress|Congress]] in the 1970 [[Voting Rights Act [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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• Edwards v. California (1941)
  ...to California and becoming a drain on the state’s resources. A unanimous Court, speaking through Justice James Byrnes, invalidated the law, calling it an [[Category:Supreme Court Cases]]
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• Elections
  ...00 presidential election, the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] ruled that the Equal Protection Clause limits the kinds of procedures tha ...significant influence on the way congressional districts, and even in many cases state legislative districts, are drawn by their state legislatures.
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