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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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SCOTUS Rules Censure of Elected Board Member Didn’t Violate First Amendment
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by DONALD SCARINCI on May 3, 2022
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