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The United States Constitution contains several provisions regarding criminal procedure, including: Article Three, along with Amendments Five, Six, Eight, and Fourteen. Such cases have come to comprise a substantial portion of the Supreme Court's docket.
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 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
Chrestensen. 316 U.S. 52 (1942) holding that commercial speech is unprotected by the 1st Amendment; overruled by Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council. United States v. Univis Lens Co. 316 U.S. 241 (1942) exhaustion doctrine under U.S. patent law and its relation to price fixing. Betts v.
This ruling stood as precedent until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 7–2. Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co. 1907. States, as quasi-sovereigns, have parens patriae standing to sue for environmental harms, in this case fumes from copper mining. [1] 9–0. Fairchild v.
1954. 347 U.S. 497. Brown companion case —dealt with the constitutionality of segregation in the District of Columbia. Browder v. Gayle. 1956. 142 F. Supp. 707. Montgomery, Alabama bus segregation is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment protections for equal treatment. NAACP v.
In 1995, the Court held that the Crime Control Act of 1990, which the Gun-Free School Zones Act was a part of, was unconstitutional because it was an "impermissible extension of congressional power under the Commerce Clause." [34] Lopez remains the central case regarding the authority of Congress under the commerce power. [35]
Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201 (1964), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the government from eliciting statements from the defendant about themselves after the point that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches. [1]