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This was the first Supreme Court ruling to deal with homosexuality and the first to address free speech rights with respect to homosexuality. Bowers v. Hardwick , 478 U.S. 186 (1986) A Georgia law that criminalizes certain acts of private sexual conduct between homosexual persons does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment .
Landmark cases in the United States come most frequently (but not exclusively) from the Supreme Court of the United States. United States Courts of Appeals may also make such decisions, particularly if the Supreme Court chooses not to review the case, or adopts the holding of the court below.
Judiciary Act of 1891 bars Court from considering entire case without questions that can be separately resolved; cert denied and question of resolving two earlier cases reverts to Seventh Circuit Talton v. Mayes: 163 U.S. 376 (1896) individual rights in U.S. Constitution not applicable to tribal governments Ward v. Race Horse: 163 U.S. 504 ...
The top decisions by the Supreme Court of 2024 covered ... overruled the 1984 landmark decision in Chevron v. ... in a dispute over the Clean Air Act. In that case, the court upheld an action by ...
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Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court held that the United States does not have a general federal common law and that U.S. federal courts must apply state law, not federal law, to lawsuits between parties from different states that do not involve federal questions.
Volpe, 401 U.S. 402 (1971), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that established the basic legal framework for judicial review of the actions of administrative agencies. It substantially narrowed the Administrative Procedure Act's Section 701(a)(2) exception from judicial review.
Habeas relief may not be granted with respect to any claim a state-court has found on the merits unless the state-court decision denying relief involves an "unreasonable application" of "clearly established federal law, as determined by" the Court. Swarthout v. Cooke: 10-333: 2011-01-24 State prisoners have no constitutional right to parole ...