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Various authorities have listed what they consider are the legitimate constituents of the Insular Cases. Juan R. Torruella, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (the federal appeals court with jurisdiction over the Federal Court for the District of Puerto Rico), considers that the landmark decisions consist of six fundamental cases only, all decided in 1901: "strictly ...
The Insular Cases are a series of opinions by the Supreme Court in 1901 (the first six opinions in 182 U.S., at pages 1–397, all authored by Justice Henry Billings Brown, along with various concurring and dissenting opinions by other Justices), about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War, such as the ...
sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases: Shreveport Rate Case: 234 U.S. 342 (1914) Commerce clause, regulation of intrastate railroad rates Coppage v. Kansas: 236 U.S. 1 (1915) Economic due process and yellow-dog contracts: Burdick v. United States: 236 U.S. 79 (1915) Legal effect of a pardon: Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial ...
The Insular Cases were a series of rulings issued in the 1900s, soon after the U.S. had acquired Puerto Rico and other territories, in which the court said people in those jurisdictions did not ...
sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases: Dorr v. United States: 195 U.S. 138 (1904) sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases: Gonzales v. Williams: 192 U.S. 1 (1904) Puerto Ricans and illegal aliens Northern Securities Co. v. United States: 193 U.S. 197 (1904) Antitrust, application of the Sherman Antitrust Act: Johnson v. Southern ...
Fitisemanu v. United States (Docket 21–1394) was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States was asked to consider if the Insular Cases should be overturned and whether people living in American territories such as American Samoa are guaranteed birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The resolution, introduced in 2021, would repudiate the so-called “Insular Cases,” a series of Supreme Court decisions that decreed limits to the… Civil rights groups call on House to pass ...
Bidwell, 182 U.S. 1 (1901), was one of a group of the first Insular Cases decided by the US Supreme Court. The case was argued on January 8–11, 1901 and was decided on May 27, 1901. Background