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1) ASCAP members have a common and undivided interest in the right to license in association through the Society free of the state statute. 2) The lower court should have allowed ASCAP members the opportunity to price the cost of complying with the statute and the value of the copyrights affected by it. Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp.
Note: if no court name is given, according to convention, the case is from the Supreme Court of the United States.Supreme Court rulings are binding precedent across the United States; Circuit Court rulings are binding within a certain portion of it (the circuit in question); District Court rulings are not binding precedent, but may still be referred to by other courts.
It was the first U.S. Supreme Court ruling to address free speech rights with respect to homosexuality. Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day, 370 U.S. 348 (1962) Images of naked men are not, per se, obscene, extending Olesen in a way that spurred an increase in same-sex erotica that helped spur the rise of the LGBTQ rights movement later in the decade.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has written roughly 100 opinions in more than three years on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Legal effect of a pardon: Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio: 236 U.S. 230 (1915) free speech and the censorship of motion pictures: Guinn v. United States: 238 U.S. 347 (1915) constitutionality of Oklahoma's "grandfather law" used to disenfranchise African-American voters Hadacheck v. Sebastian: 239 U.S. 394 (1915)
role of magistrate judges in jury selection in a felony trial Harmelin v. Michigan: 501 U.S. 957 (1991) life imprisonment for cocaine possession Simon & Schuster v. Crime Victims Board: 502 U.S. 105 (1991) holding that New York's Son of Sam law violated the First Amendment: Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Doherty: 502 U.S. 314 (1992)
The legendary confrontation between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial took place on a hot Monday afternoon on July 20, 1925. But the real clash of the cultural ...
R v Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy ([1924] 1 KB 256, [1923] All ER Rep 233) is a leading English case on the impartiality and recusal of judges.It is famous as a legal precedent in establishing the principle that the mere appearance of bias is sufficient to overturn a judicial decision.