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  2. Flood v. Kuhn - Wikipedia

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    Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 (1972), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that preserved the reserve clause in Major League Baseball (MLB) players' contracts.

  3. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012

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    The detention sections of the NDAA begin by "affirm[ing]" that the authority of the President under the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF), a joint resolution passed in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, includes the power to detain, via the Armed Forces, any person, including a U.S. citizen, [11] [22] "who was part of or substantially ...

  4. Stop-loss policy - Wikipedia

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    Stop-loss was created by the United States Congress after the Vietnam War. Its use is founded on Title 10, United States Code, Section 12305(a) which states in part: "... the President may suspend any provision of law relating to promotion, retirement, or separation applicable to any member of the armed forces who the President determines is essential to the national security of the United ...

  5. Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard - Wikipedia

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    Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023), is a landmark decision [1] [2] [3] [4] of the United States Supreme Court ruling that race-based ...

  6. Timeline of same-sex marriage - Wikipedia

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    4 August: U.S. District Court of Northern California declares that Proposition 8, a 2008 California-electorate ban on same-sex marriage, violates due process and equal protection clauses in the U.S. Constitution. [140] Supporters of the proposition eventually appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which issued a ruling in 2013.

  7. Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia

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    The earliest reference of cupcakes can be traced as far back as 1796, when a recipe notation of "a cake to be baked in small cups" was written in American Cookery by Amelia Simms. [35] However, the first use of the term "cupcake" was in Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats in 1828 in Eliza Leslie's Receipts cookbook where it ...

  8. Reading and Leeds Festivals line-ups - Wikipedia

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    Feeder were their replacement as far as the slot was concerned, as almost every act below them were moved up a slot, with Bring Me the Horizon being booked instead, although not taking their slot and being at the bottom of the schedule. [11] Avenged Sevenfold performed a shortened set at Leeds and pulled out of the Reading leg due to illness ...