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Peterson v. City of Greenville, 373 U.S., was a United States Supreme Court case that maintained the illegality of race-based segregation in public places. Ten African American student protesters were arrested and convicted in Greenville, South Carolina for attempting to purchase food at an S.H. Kress lunch counter.
On 12 December 2014, the Rostov Oblast Court overturned the trial's verdict. [33] On 26 December 2014, the case was again submitted to the Taganrog City Court for retrial by judge Aleksey Vasyutchenko. Preliminary hearings were held on 12 January 2015, and the first hearing on 22 January. The first consideration of the case took place on 3 ...
In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
Lester B. Orfield, A Resume of Decisions of the United States Supreme Court on Federal Criminal Procedure, 30 Ky. L.J. 360 (1942). Lester B. Orfield, A Resume of Decisions of the United States Supreme Court on Federal Criminal Procedure, 7 Mo. L. Rev. 263 (1942).
Rights of the media and public figures in defamation suits Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States: 424 U.S. 800 (1976) Abstention doctrine: Dann v. Johnston: 425 U.S. 219 (1976) Early case on the patentability of the business method patent: Hills v. Gautreaux: 425 U.S. 284 (1976) Fifth Amendment and Civil Rights Act of 1964 ...
First 20th-century case where the Court protected the rights of Blacks in the South, and one of its first to review a criminal conviction for constitutionality. Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435 (1932) Entrapment is a valid defense to a criminal charge. Brown v.
This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Rehnquist Court, the tenure of Chief Justice William Rehnquist from September 26, 1986, through September 3, 2005. The cases are listed chronologically based on the date that the Supreme Court decided the case.
Unlike a petit jury, which resolves a particular civil or criminal case, a grand jury (typically having twelve to twenty-three members) serves as a group for a sustained period of time in all or many of the cases that come up in the jurisdiction, generally under the supervision of a federal U.S. attorney, a county district attorney, or a state ...