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The Court announced that the Lemon test from the landmark case of Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) had been abandoned by the Court in later cases. Instead, the Court announced, original meaning and history govern analysis of the Establishment Clause.
coerced confessions in a murder case Helvering v. Bruun: 309 U.S. 461 (1940) A landlord realizes a taxable gain when he repossesses property improved by a tenant: Thornhill v. Alabama: 310 U.S. 88 (1940) free speech clause of First Amendment includes peaceful labor picketing: Cantwell v. Connecticut: 310 U.S. 296 (1940) incorporated Free ...
Federal common law in diversity jurisdiction cases, later overturned Prigg v. Pennsylvania: 41 U.S. 539 (1842) runaway slaves Luther v. Borden: 48 U.S. 1 (1849) guarantee clause of Article Four of the United States Constitution: Passenger Cases: 48 U.S. 283 (1849) taxation of immigrants, constitutionality of state laws regarding foreign ...
"Leading case" is commonly used in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth jurisdictions instead of "landmark case", as used in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Commonwealth countries, a reported decision is said to be a leading decision when it has come to be generally regarded as settling the law of the question involved.
Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74 (1980), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued on June 9, 1980 which affirmed the decision of the California Supreme Court in a case that arose out of a free speech dispute between the Pruneyard Shopping Center in Campbell, California, and several local high school students (who wished to canvass signatures for a petition against United ...
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. Kermit L. Hall, ed. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. Kermit L. Hall, ed. Alley, Robert S. (1999). The Constitution & Religion: Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and State. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-703-1
Landmark Cases: Historic Supreme Court Decisions is a series first aired by C-SPAN in the fall of 2015 about 12 key cases argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. A second season aired in the winter and spring of 2018, in which 12 additional cases were discussed. [1] Each episode is 90 minutes long, airs live, and examines a specific case in ...
Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins; 1982 Island Trees School District v. Pico; New York v. Ferber, 458 U.S. 747 (1982) - Amicus curiae for Paul Ferber; McLean v. Arkansas; 1983 Bob Jones University v. United States; City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U.S. 416 (1983). 1985 Wallace v.