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When approved in 1925, "the Judges Bill", as it was known, dramatically shrank the number of cases coming directly to the court, yet retained a mandatory oversight on cases that raised questions involving federal jurisdiction.
The Supreme Court Case Selections Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100–352, 102 Stat. 662, enacted June 27, 1988, codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1257) is an act of Congress that eliminated appeals as of right from state court decisions to the Supreme Court of the United States.
In United States law, jurisdiction-stripping (also called court-stripping or curtailment-of-jurisdiction) is the limiting or reducing of a court's jurisdiction by Congress through its constitutional authority to determine the jurisdiction of federal courts and to exclude or remove federal cases from state courts.
The court ruled for the first time that state prison inmates have the standing to sue in federal court to address their grievances under the Civil Rights Act of 1871. Beck v. Ohio: 379 U.S. 89 (1964) probable cause and searches incident to a lawful arrest: McLaughlin v. Florida: 379 U.S. 184 (1964)
The first case in which the Supreme Court struck down a state statute as unconstitutional was Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 87 (1810). [61] In a few cases, state courts took the position that their judgments were final and were not subject to review by the Supreme Court.
This court held that the examination of the defendant violated the due process clause of the Iowa Constitution, as well as article 1, section 8’s prohibition of unreasonable searches. [13] In 1914, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a strong version of the exclusionary rule, in the case of Weeks v.
He predicted that the court likely would not support Trump’s plan to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a basis for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants as it requires an “invasion or ...
The set of cases is referred to by a leading scholar as the July 2 Cases, [1] and elsewhere referred to by the lead case Gregg. The court set forth the two main features that capital sentencing procedures must employ in order to comply with the Eighth Amendment ban on " cruel and unusual punishments ".