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This case featured the first example of judicial review by the Supreme Court. Ware v. Hylton, 3 U.S. 199 (1796) A section of the Treaty of Paris supersedes an otherwise valid Virginia statute under the Supremacy Clause. This case featured the first example of judicial nullification of a state law. Fletcher v.
scope of 7th Amendment right to jury trial in civil cases Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce: 494 U.S. 652 (1990) corporate funding of political campaigns Employment Division v. Smith: 494 U.S. 872 (1990) religious freedom with respect to drug use Missouri v. Jenkins: 495 U.S. 33 (1990) power of federal courts to order taxation by state or ...
Famous cases heard in the district include the prosecution of former Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega, [4] the Elián González case, [5] notorious Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, [6] a 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida case, [7] the prosecution of José Padilla, [8] and one of [9] the federal prosecutions of ...
Florida: 368 U.S. 57 (1961) all-male jury in a woman's murder trial did not violate Fourteenth Amendment Cramp v. Board of Public Instruction: 368 U.S. 278 (1961) Florida statute required every employee of the State and its subdivisions to swear in writing that, he has never lent his "aid, support, advice, counsel or influence to the Communist ...
The Terri Schiavo case was a series of court and legislative actions in the United States from 1998 to 2005, ... of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. [34]
Chambers v. Florida: 309 U.S. 227 (1940) coerced confessions in a murder case Helvering v. Bruun: 309 U.S. 461 (1940) A landlord realizes a taxable gain when he repossesses property improved by a tenant: Thornhill v. Alabama: 310 U.S. 88 (1940) free speech clause of First Amendment includes peaceful labor picketing: Cantwell v. Connecticut: 310 ...
"Leading case" is commonly used in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth jurisdictions instead of "landmark case", as used in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Commonwealth countries, a reported decision is said to be a leading decision when it has come to be generally regarded as settling the law of the question involved.
Effective assistance of counsel in appeals in criminal cases Wainwright v. Witt: 469 U.S. 412 (1985) Selection of jurors in death penalty cases United States v. Maine: 469 U.S. 504 (1985) Long Island is an extension of the mainland and the bordering sounds are therefore under state regulatory control Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit ...