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Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court. [1] These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.
Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, 236 U.S. 230 (1915), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court ruling by a 9–0 vote that the free speech protection of the Ohio Constitution, which was substantially similar to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, did not extend to motion pictures.
The federal trial court for the Southern District of New York, though expressing some doubt over the constitutionality of § 4952, declined to invalidate it and awarded a $610 judgment ($21,000 in modern dollars [2]) to Sarony. It was affirmed by the U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, and then appealed to the Supreme Court.
Within U.S. copyright law, federal judge Joseph Story, later a Supreme Court justice, identified three aspects of fair use to be judged by a court in an 1841 case, Folsom v. Marsh, holding that the republication of some of George Washington's letters by a second writer was infringing: [1] the "nature and objects of the selections made",
Schenck v. United States: 249 U.S. 47 (1919) freedom of speech, “clear and present danger”, “shouting fire in a crowded theater” Debs v. United States: 249 U.S. 211 (1919) sedition Abrams v. United States: 250 U.S. 616 (1919) validity of criminalizing criticism of the government Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States: 251 U.S. 385 (1920)
Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit: Holding; The default rule is that the artist who creates a commissioned work retains copyright ownership of the work (because the artist is an independent contractor and not an employee producing a work made for hire.)
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law.
The United States District Court for the District of Arizona granted the Town's motion for summary judgment. [30] The church then appealed that ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, but the Ninth Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court, holding the town's ordinance was content neutral. [30] Citing Hill v.