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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.
Since such motions are extremely common, Anderson has become the most-cited Supreme Court case. Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993) Scientific evidence that is admitted in federal court must be valid and relevant to the case at hand.
This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenures of Chief Justices John Jay (October 19, 1789 – June 29, 1795), John Rutledge (August 12, 1795 – December 28, 1795), and Oliver Ellsworth (March 8, 1796 – December 15, 1800), respectively the Jay, Rutledge, and Ellsworth Courts.
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
states cannot ban people from legal practice due to Communist party membership In re Stolar: 401 U.S. 23 (1971) A state cannot require bar applicants to list every organization he or she belonged to since starting law school—decided same day as Baird v. State Bar of Arizona: Younger v. Harris: 401 U.S. 37 (1971) Abstention doctrine
Last year, the Supreme Court reinstated the fetal remains law, but not the ban on abortions for race, sex and developmental disabilities. ___ GUNS. In a dissent in the 2019 gun-rights case of ...
access to court transcript for indigent appeals Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board: 351 U.S. 115 (1956) First of Two Cases involving compulsory registration of Communist Party members. Court didn't answer questions raised concerning constitutionality of Act requiring compulsory registration. Radovich v. National Football League
And no women or people of color have served as chief justices of the nation’s highest court. Six have been women Of the 116 justices in history, 110 – or 94.8% – have been men.