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Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Association, 443 U.S. 658 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case related to Indian fishing rights in Washington State. It held that the usual and accustomed clause of the Stevens Treaties protected Indians ' share of anadromous fish in addition to protecting fishing grounds.
State agency regulations (sometimes called administrative law) are published in the Washington State Register and codified in the Washington Administrative Code. Washington's legal system is based on common law , which is interpreted by case law through the decisions of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, which are published in the ...
Prior to that, it was illegal in the state, with a therapeutic exception if the life of the mother was at risk. [5] In 1971, the state repealed its statute that said inducing an abortion was a criminal offense. [6] [7] Hawaii, New York, Alaska, and Washington were the first states to repeal their abortion laws in the pre-Roe v. Wade era. [8]
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, 551 U.S. 701 (2007), also known as the PICS case, is a United States Supreme Court case which found it unconstitutional for a school district to use race as a factor in assigning students to schools in order to bring its racial composition in line with the composition of the district as a whole, unless it was remedying a ...
United States v. Washington, 384 F. Supp. 312 (W.D. Wash. 1974), aff'd, 520 F.2d 676 (9th Cir. 1975), commonly known as the Boldt Decision (from the name of the trial court judge, George Hugo Boldt), was a legal case in 1974 heard in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Rideout in 1978. [9] In the case, the husband was accused of raping his wife, the first man in the United States to be charged with raping his wife while they were still living together. [10] The trial was the first in Oregon relating to marital rape since the state revised its rape law in 1977 to eliminate the marital rape immunity. [10]
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) Valentine v. Chrestensen, 316 U.S. 52 (1942) Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, 425 U.S. 748 (1976) Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957) Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973) Amalgamated Food Employees Union Local 590 v.
The Survivors' Bill of Rights Act of 2016 (Pub. L. 114–236 (text)) is a landmark civil rights and victims rights legislation in the United States that establishes, for the first time, statutory rights in federal code for survivors of sexual assault and rape.