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Shelley v Kraemer Holds State Courts Can’t Enforce Race-Based Covenants

Shelley v Kraemer Holds State Courts Can’t Enforce Race-Based Covenants

In Shelley v Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause banned state courts from enforcing racially restr...

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Everson v Board of Education of the Township of Ewing

Everson v Board of Education Applied Establishment Clause to States

In Everson v Board of Education of the Township of Ewing, 330 U.S. 1 (1947), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a New Jersey law that reimbursed parents for school transportation c...

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Skinner v Oklahoma

Skinner v Oklahoma: Forced Sterilization Violates 14th Amendment

In Skinner v Oklahoma ex rel Williamson, 316 U.S. 535 (1942), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Oklahoma's Criminal Sterilization Act. The justices held that compulsory steriliz...

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Palko v Connecticut

Palko v Connecticut Established Selective Incorporation Doctrine

In Palko v Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319 (1937), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fifth Amendment’s immunity against double jeopardy was not a fundamental right. Accordingly, i...

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United States v. Peters

United States v Peters & the Power of the Federal Courts

In United States v Peters, 9 U.S. 115 (1809), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the legislature of a State can’t annul the judgments, nor determine the jurisdiction, of the cour...

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chevron usa v natural resources defense council

Chevron USA v Natural Resources Defense Council Decision Codified Administrative Deference

In Chevron USA v Natural Resources Defense Council, 467 U.S. 837 (1984), the U.S. Supreme Court established the standard of judicial review that courts should apply when evaluat...

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Stuart v Laird

Stuart v Laird Upholds Circuit Riding by Supreme Court Justices

In Stuart v Laird, 5 U.S. 299 (1803), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, which effectively abolished the existing circuit courts. The decision...

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Erie Railroad Co v Tompkins

Erie Railroad Co v Tompkins Decision Established Modern Diversity Jurisdiction

In Erie Railroad Co v Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal district courts in diversity jurisdiction cases must apply the law of the states in w...

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pierce v society of sisters

Pierce v Society of Sisters & the Rise of Substantive Due Process

In Pierce v Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Compulsory Education Act of 1922, which required parents to send their children to pub...

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United States v Cruikshank

United States v Cruikshank: Reconstruction and the Constitution

In United States v Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875), the U.S. Supreme Court held that protections afforded by the newly enacted Fourteenth Amendment, including due process and equa...

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The Amendments

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Preamble to the Bill of Rights

Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

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