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Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, 485 U.S. 439 (1988), was a United States Supreme Court landmark [2] case in which the Court ruled on the applicability of the Free Exercise Clause to the practice of religion on Native American sacred lands, specifically in the Chimney Rock area of the Six Rivers National Forest in California. [2]
In March 1858, a federal court, the US District in San Francisco, overturned the California Supreme Court decision, holding that Lee was a free man. [3] Stovall then argued to United States Commissioner William Penn Johnson that Lee was in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. On April 14, 1858, a final trial held that Lee had crossed no ...
Smith v. California, 361 U.S. 147 (1959), was a U.S. Supreme Court case upholding the freedom of the press.The decision deemed unconstitutional a city ordinance that made one in possession of obscene books criminally liable because it did not require proof that one had knowledge of the book's content, and thus violated the freedom of the press guaranteed in the First Amendment. [1]
Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962), is the first landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution was interpreted to prohibit criminalization of particular acts or conduct, as contrasted with prohibiting the use of a particular form of punishment for a crime.
The case has been cited in arguments made by legal counsel and in opinions given by judges in Supreme Court decisions. [5] In Arizona v. United States (2012), the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional sections of Arizona 's SB 1070 , a law to devote state law enforcement resources to enforce some aspects of federal immigration law.
The California Supreme Court ruling curtails the ability of public employees in the state to seek help from the courts in labor disputes.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to place on hold a dispute over California's standards for vehicle emissions and electric cars even as President Donald Trump's administration considers ...
Case history; Prior: People v. Lisenba, 14 Cal. 2d 403, 94 P.2d 569 (1939); affirmed, 313 U.S. 537 (1941); rehearing granted, 313 U.S. 597 (1941): Subsequent: 315 U.S. 826: Holding; The Court affirmed the Supreme Court of California's decision to deny the petitioner a writ of habeas corpus based on the methods used by law enforcement officials to procure his confession to murder.