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Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court. [1] These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.
The phrase is a paraphrasing of a dictum, or non-binding statement, from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected free speech under the First Amendment of the United ...
Burden of persuasion on infringement in declaratory judgment cases Octane Fitness v. Icon Health & Fitness: 572 U.S. 545: 2014: 9-0: Damages: Attorney Fees: An "exceptional" case is simply one that stands out from others because of its frivolous nature relating to the legal arguments or merits of the claim.
United States v. Adams, 383 U.S. 39 (1966), is a United States Supreme Court decision in the area of patent law. [1] This case was later cited in KSR v. Teleflex as an example of a case satisfying the requirement for non-obviousness of a combination of known elements. It also features one of the great stories of patent litigation lore, with ...
A recent Supreme Court decision helps Adams by requiring a specific quid-pro-quo to prove bribery. ... It's the first time Snyder — a case named for an Indiana mayor who took $13,000 from a ...
Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams, 532 U.S. 105 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case that concerned whether the "section one exemption" of the Federal Arbitration Act applied to an employment contract of an employee at Circuit City Stores. The Court held that the exemption was limited to the specific listing of professions contained ...
Adams v. Robertson , 520 U.S. 83 (1997), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court, in a per curiam opinion, "dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted ." [ 1 ]
Adams v. Texas , 448 U.S. 38 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held on an 8–1 vote that, consistent with its prior opinion in Witherspoon v. Illinois , a Texas requirement that jurors swear an oath that the mandatory imposition of a death sentence would not interfere with their consideration of factual matters ...