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Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145 (1878), was a Supreme Court of the United States case which held that religious duty was not a defense to a criminal indictment. [1] Reynolds was the first Supreme Court opinion to address the First Amendment's protection of religious liberties, impartial juries and the Confrontation Clauses of the Sixth ...
Supreme Court of the United States 38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444 Established March 4, 1789 ; 235 years ago (1789-03-04) Location Washington, D.C. Coordinates 38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444 Composition method Presidential nomination with Senate confirmation Authorised by ...
Reynolds v. United States 565 U.S. 432 (2012) is a Supreme Court case regarding sex offender registration prior to enactment of the Sex Offender Registration and ...
Case history; Prior: Judgments entered in favor of the plaintiffs upheld, Reynolds v.United States, 192 F.2d 987 (3d Cir. 1951); cert. granted, 343 U.S. 918 (1952).: Holding; In this case, there was a valid claim of privilege under Rule 34; and a judgment based under Rule 37 on refusal to produce the documents subjected the United States to liability to which Congress did not consent by the ...
The state secrets privilege is related to, but distinct from, several other legal doctrines: the principle of non-justiciability in certain cases involving state secrets (the so-called "Totten Rule"); [6] certain prohibitions on the publication of classified information (as in New York Times Co. v. United States, the Pentagon Papers case); and the use of classified information in criminal ...
Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145 (1878) Miles v. United States, 103 U.S. 304 (1880) — established that the second wife may testify as to her husband's bigamy, because their marriage is not de jure; Clawson v. United States, 113 U.S. 143 (1885) — established cohabitation as unlawful; Murphy v.
But, in United States v. Gale (1883), the Court upheld a statute that punished state officers for misconduct in federal Congressional elections. [62] And, in United States v. Waddell (1884), the Court upheld a criminal civil rights law as applied to the rights of Homesteaders. [63]
The United States Supreme Court held such clauses to be unenforceable in the 1961 case Torcaso v. Watkins , when ruling unanimously that such clauses constitute a "religious test" forbidden by the First Amendment prohibiting federal religious tests and the protections in the Fourteenth Amendment , which apply to the states as well as the ...