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The Insular Cases are a series of opinions by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1901 about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War. [1] Some scholars also include cases regarding territorial status decided up until 1914, and others include related cases as late as 1979.
sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases: Ex parte Joins: 191 U.S. 93 (1903) Missouri, Kansas, & Texas Railway Co. of Texas v. May: 194 U.S. 267 (1904) 14th Amendment permits law which penalizes railroads for allowing weeds to grow Kepner v. United States: 195 U.S. 100 (1904) sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases: Dorr v. United States
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 ...
Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U.S. 244 (1901), was a case in which the US Supreme Court decided whether US territories were subject to the provisions and protections of the US 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 ...
In a series of opinions by the Supreme Court of the United States, referred to as the Insular Cases, the Court ruled that the territories belonged to, but were not part of the United States. Therefore, under the Territorial clause, Congress had the power to determine which parts of the Constitution applied to the territories.
The Supreme Court declined to consider whether American Samoans have U.S. citizenship at birth, a case that would have provided a review of the "Insular Cases."
Courts of insular areas of the United States (1 C, 4 P) ... Insular Cases; L. List of Guano Island claims; R. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico v ...