Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Insular Cases have also been criticized for having been inconsistent in application between the two largest insular territories, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico was seen as "an important geo-strategic asset" [ 27 ] for emerging U.S. imperialism and a gateway to Latin America, while insular control over the Philippines was a ...
The Insular Cases are a series of opinions by the Supreme Court in 1901 (the first six opinions in 182 U.S., at pages 1–397, all authored by Justice Henry Billings Brown, along with various concurring and dissenting opinions by other Justices), about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War, such as the ...
sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases: United States v. Moreland: 258 U.S. 433 (1922) Fifth Amendment, hard labor in prison Child Labor Tax Case: 259 U.S. 20 (1922) docket title Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., found the Child Labor Tax Law of 1919 was not a valid use of Congress' power under the Taxing and Spending Clause: Hill v. Wallace
The Insular Cases were a series of rulings issued in the 1900s, soon after the U.S. had acquired Puerto Rico and other territories, in which the court said people in those jurisdictions did not ...
The resolution, introduced in 2021, would repudiate the so-called “Insular Cases,” a series of Supreme Court decisions that decreed limits to the… Civil rights groups call on House to pass ...
The Internal Revenue Law of 1904 provided for general internal revenue taxes, documentary taxes and transfer of livestock. A wide variety of revenue stamps were issued in denominations ranging from one centavo to 20,000 pesos. The term "insular" refers to the fact that the government operated under the authority of the Bureau of Insular Affairs.
The Supreme Court declined to consider whether American Samoans have U.S. citizenship at birth, a case that would have provided a review of the "Insular Cases." Supreme Court declines to consider ...
The term "insular" refers to the fact that the government operated under the authority of the Bureau of Insular Affairs. The Philippines also had an insular government at this time. From 1901 to 1922, the U.S. Supreme Court wrestled with the constitutional status of these governments in the Insular Cases. [6]