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Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another private owner to further economic development does not violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
It was the most prominent in a series of cases which had increased the scope of 42 USC § 1983 in actions against local governments. [14] The decision left open the issue of unequal provision of services according to wealth and for this reason some commentators doubted its wide applicability. [15] [16] The 1976 Supreme Court case Washington
Supreme Court of Mississippi: Denied a deed of manumission in Ohio for a citizen of Mississippi's mixed-race son and his slave mother, because it was against Mississippi statutes (which required an act by the state legislature), and was considered fraud 1838: North Carolina v. Manuel: Supreme Court of North Carolina
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies, a policy adopted in 1890 during ...
On May 2, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in favor of MAIS. The ruling vacated the block, allowing the funding to reach private schools, and stated that PPS does not have standing to sue the ...
In an 1896 ruling, the Mississippi Supreme Court, of which the 1890 convention's president later became a member, delivered a legal opinion regarding the justification and reasoning the Democrats had used for the adoption of the 1890 constitution in Ratliff v. Beale, and how it came to be. The court stated that the purpose of the 1890 ...
A federal judge has ruled that he will allow Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, over objections from the ...