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  2. Baker v. Carr - Wikipedia

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    Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that redistricting qualifies as a justiciable question under the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, thus enabling federal courts to hear Fourteenth Amendment-based redistricting cases.

  3. Charles Evans Whittaker - Wikipedia

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    Charles Evans Whittaker (February 22, 1901 – November 26, 1973) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1957 to 1962. After working in private practice in Kansas City, Missouri, he was nominated for the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.

  4. Talk:Baker v. Carr - Wikipedia

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    CARR," Jack W. Peltason, page 68: "Baker v. Carr was initiated in Tennessee in 1959 when a number of plaintiffs from Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville brought an action before the federal district court in Nashville against Joseph Cordell Carr, the Tennessee secretary of state, and George McCanless, the attorney general. The Tennessee ...

  5. Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker - Wikipedia

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    Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, 554 U.S. 471 (2008), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.The Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that the punitive damages awarded to the victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill should be reduced from $2.5 billion to $500 million.

  6. The biggest Supreme Court decisions of 2024: From ... - AOL

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    The Supreme Court on Aug. 16, 2024, kept preliminary injunctions preventing the Biden-Harris administration from implementing a new rule that widened the definition of sex discrimination under ...

  7. Ex parte McCardle - Wikipedia

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    Ex parte McCardle, 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 506 (1869), was a United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court held that Congress has the authority to withdraw the Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction to review decisions of lower courts at any time. [1] The entirety of the Court's appellate jurisdiction is determined by federal law. [2]

  8. Georgia AG encourages state’s top court to not hear Fani ...

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    Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr (R) encouraged the state’s top court to not take up Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s (D) appeal of a ruling disqualifying her from criminally ...

  9. Georgia AG urges state Supreme Court to reject DA Willis ...

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    Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr speaks to supporters at a campaign event on November 7, 2022, in Kennesaw, Georgia. Carr urged the state Supreme Court to not consider an appeal from Fulton ...