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United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974), was a landmark decision [1] of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court unanimously ordered President Richard Nixon to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials related to the Watergate scandal to a federal district court.
Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510 (1968), was a U.S. Supreme Court case where the court ruled that a state statute providing the state unlimited challenge for cause of jurors who might have any objection to the death penalty gave too much bias in favor of the prosecution. The Court said,
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City of Boise, in 2018, the court found that it was cruel and unusual punishment to impose criminal penalties on homeless individuals for sleeping in public if there were not adequate shelter beds.
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 432; List of United States Supreme Court cases; List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Burger Court; List of United States Supreme Court cases involving the First Amendment; Beauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250 (1952) Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969) R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul ...
The appellate court relied on a 1962 Supreme Court decision that said the Eighth Amendment prevented criminalizing someone’s status — in this case, homelessness. The 1962 case, Robinson v.
Nixon v. United States , 506 U.S. 224 (1993), was a United States Supreme Court decision that determined that a question of whether the Senate had properly tried an impeachment was political in nature and could not be resolved in the courts if there was no applicable judicial standard.
Nearly every state has at least one law on the books criminalizing homelessness. In June, the Supreme Court determined that cities can enforce so-called camping bans to prevent homeless people ...