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Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1986) Set the standard for what parties must establish in evidence to be granted summary judgement in federal civil cases and how courts should evaluate those motions. Since such motions are extremely common, Anderson has become the most-cited Supreme Court case. Daubert v.
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, 597 U.S. 507 (2022), is a landmark decision [1] by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held, 6–3, that the government, while following the Establishment Clause, may not suppress an individual from engaging in personal religious observance, as doing so would violate the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment.
"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.
It’s been nearly 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” segregation in the school system was unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, but the Monroe ...
In a 2016 article in Townhall.com, an outlet of the Salem Media Group, economist Thomas Sowell argued that when Chief Justice Earl Warren declared in the landmark 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education that racially separate schools were "inherently unequal," Dunbar High School was a living refutation of that assumption. And it was within ...
Priest, a post-Rodriguez decision in which California courts found that the method of funding schools violated the California Constitution's equal protection clause. Gannon v. State, [14] a 2017 Kansas Supreme Court decision ruling that Kansas' school-funding framework violates the Kansas Constitution. List of United States Supreme Court cases ...
Federal government did not owe Indian tribe compensation for timber taken from tribal-occupied lands in Alaska under the 5th Amendment: Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co. 348 U.S. 426 (1955) definition of taxable income: Williamson v. Lee: 348 U.S. 483 (1955) Due Process Clause, economic liberties Quinn v. United States: 349 U.S. 155 (1955)
Court upholds North Dakota pharmacy ownership statute against substantive due process attack Lau v. Nichols: 414 U.S. 563 (1974) Foreign-language education and discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur: 414 U.S. 632 (1974)