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Justice was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 25, 1968, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated by Judge Joseph Warren Sheehy. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 6, 1968, and received his commission on June 7, 1968.
The Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, better known as the Taft–Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. It was enacted by the 80th United States Congress over the veto of President Harry S. Truman, becoming law on June 23, 1947.
United States v. Texas, 599 U.S. ___ (2023), a case in which the Supreme Court considered whether the states have Article III standing to challenge the legality of the Department of Homeland Security's guidelines for the enforcement of civil immigration law. United States v. Texas, a case in which the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ...
Texas v. Johnson , 491 U.S. 397 (1989), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution , as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech .
Q:I live in a right-to-work state. It actually benefits the employer. I was told by a manager that because it is a right-to-work state they have the right to fire at will. I also worked at Walmart ...
June – The United States enters the severe early 1980s recession, exactly a year after the more minor 1980 recession ended; the unemployment rate is 7.2% June 5 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles , California , have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened ...
July 5 – Right to vote: The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution is formally certified by President Richard Nixon, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,362 feet (415 m), making it the second tallest building in the world.
1971 – The Javits–Wagner–O'Day Act, 41 U.S.C. § 46 et seq., a U.S. federal law requiring that all federal agencies purchase specified supplies and services from nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other significant disabilities, was passed by the 92nd United States Congress in 1971. It was an expansion of the ...