On May 18, 1896, little more than three decades after the end of the Civil War, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled…
Bronson v. Kinzie (1843) involved an 1825 Illinois law under which property owners could redeem land they sold within twelve months by repaying the…
Baker v. Carr (1962), the U.S. Supreme Court overruled prior decisions and held that the apportionment of legislative districts was a justiciable question (i.e.,…
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During the course of paving streets and performing other civic improvements, the City of Baltimore diverted streams so that they emptied into the city’s…
In Baldwin v. Montana Fish and Game Commission 1978), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Montana’s substantially higher elk-hunting license fee for nonresidents over objections…
In Toomer v. Witsell (1948), the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated South Carolina’s policy of requiring state residents to pay a $25 per boat license…
Baker v. Carr (1962) is a landmark case credited with legally establishing the noted principle of “one person, one vote” and with condemning legislative…
In Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918), the Supreme Court invalidated the federal Keating-Owen Child Labor Act, which had forbidden the shipment of goods made by…
The Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution provides that the judicial power of the United States does not extend to any lawsuit filed against a…
United States v. Butler (1936) involved a challenge to the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, a major New Deal program that attempted to stabilize…
Admiral Dewey Adamson was convicted of first-degree murder by the State of California and sentenced to death. During the course of his trial, the…
Roe v. Wade (1973) has probably generated more passion among its opponents and proponents of any decision in the Supreme Court’s history. The Court,…
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