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Their principals included individuals active in the 1789 purchases, as well as leading Georgia politicians such as James Gunn [4] and United States Supreme Court Associate Justice James Wilson. These companies persuaded the Georgia state assembly to sell more than 40,000,000 acres (160,000 km 2) of land for $500,000. Many Georgia officials and ...
It was the most prominent in a series of cases which had increased the scope of 42 USC § 1983 in actions against local governments. [14] The decision left open the issue of unequal provision of services according to wealth and for this reason some commentators doubted its wide applicability. [15] [16] The 1976 Supreme Court case Washington
Supreme Court of Mississippi: Denied a deed of manumission in Ohio for a citizen of Mississippi's mixed-race son and his slave mother, because it was against Mississippi statutes (which required an act by the state legislature), and was considered fraud 1838: North Carolina v. Manuel: Supreme Court of North Carolina
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies, a policy adopted in 1890 during ...
The U.S. Supreme Court invited such abuses with its 2005 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London , which blessed the use of eminent domain to promote economic development by transferring property ...
Jenifer Branning, a candidate on the ballot for the Mississippi Supreme Court Central District, speaks to attendees during Roger Wicker's victory party at the Westin hotel in Jackson, on Nov. 5, 2024.
Graves later won election to the court in 2004. [5] At the time, he was the only African-American justice on the court. [10] The first African-Americans to serve on the Mississippi Supreme Court were Reuben V. Anderson, who served from 1985 to 1990, followed by Fred L. Banks Jr. from 1991 to 2001. [11]
In a ruling filed late Sunday, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate dismissed requests to block the new court, which was created by the majority-white and Republican-controlled Mississippi Legislature.