In United States v. Cooley (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that an Indian tribe police officer has the authority to detain temporarily…
Frank Jacob Palko was convicted of second-degree murder in 1935 for killing two police officers in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and sentenced to life in prison…
Founded in 1924, the National League of Cities (NLC) is a nonpartisan public officials’ association that exists to promote the mutual interests of the…
See Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States
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In this 2018 case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992 violated the Court’s…
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Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) is commonly referred to as the same-sex marriage case that legalized same-sex marriage at the federal level in the United…
In Mount Lemmon Fire District v. John Guido, et al. (2019), the Supreme Court declared that the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of…
McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) Jimcy McGirt, a citizen of the Seminole Nation, which is geographically situated within the state of Oklahoma, was convicted in…
See Incorporation (Nationalization) of the Bill of Rights
In Madison v. Alabama (2019), the Supreme Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution bars the execution of a prisoner whose dementia prevents him from recalling…
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