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Starting from 2019 Administration of the Test, the College Board requires students to know 15 Supreme Court cases. [3] After the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Roe v. Wade was removed from the required case list. [4] The 14 required Supreme Court cases are listed below:
state court decisions and the application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine: Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Broudo: 544 U.S. 336 (2005) standard for pleading loss causation in a securities fraud claim Small v. United States: 544 U.S. 385 (2005) resolution of split appeals court decisions on inclusion of foreign courts in the term "any court ...
Webb v. O'Brien, 263 U.S. 313 (1923) – Overturning a lower court decision, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on cropping contracts, which technically dealt with labor rather than land and were used by many Issei to avoid the restrictions of California's alien land act. Frick v. Webb, 263 U.S. 326 (1923) Mahler v. Eby, 264 U.S. 32 (1924)
Federal courts of appeals lack jurisdiction to hear untimely filed appeals Pfizer, Inc. v. Government of India: 434 U.S. 308 (1978) Foreign nations, who may sue in federal court, may also obtain triple damages for violations of the Clayton Act: Bordenkircher v. Hayes: 434 U.S. 357 (1978)
While a single case can only be heard by one circuit court, a core legal principle may be tried through multiple cases in separate circuit courts, creating an inconsistency between different parts of the United States. This creates a split decision among the circuit courts. Often, if there is a split decision between two or more circuits, and a ...
Unlike some state courts, the power of federal courts to hear cases and controversies is strictly limited. Federal courts may not decide every case that happens to come before them. In order for a district court to entertain a lawsuit, Congress must first grant the court subject matter jurisdiction over the type of dispute in question.
This case was a precedent for the following one. 1781: Quock Walker v. Jennison: Worcester County Court of Common Pleas: Jennison's slave, Quock Walker, was found to be a freedman on the basis that slavery was contrary to the Bible and the Massachusetts Constitution. 1783: Commonwealth v. Jennison: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
For example, an attempt to sue public utilities for greenhouse gas emissions under a "public nuisance" theory invoking the federal common law of nuisance was unanimously rejected by the Court in 2011 in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, 564 U.S. 410 (2011), reversing a lower court decision in a case that also found an evenly divided ...