* US v. Szucko, Definition of term by United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

* US v. Bierd, Definition of term by United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

* 2005 – US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of " intelligent design " in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

In current US legal practice, in rem suits are primarily asset forfeiture cases, based on drug laws, as in USA v. $ 124, 700 ( 2006 ).

This was later reversed during 2002 in a landmark case before the US Supreme Court, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, in which the divided court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled the Ohio school voucher plan constitutional and removed any constitutional barriers to similar voucher plans in the future, with moderate justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O ' Connor and conservative justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas in the majority.

In Ford v. Wainwright 477 U. S. 399 ( 1986 ), the US Supreme Court upheld the common law rule that the insane cannot be executed.

* 1915 – The U. S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.

* 1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U. S. law.

In Beacon Theaters v. Westover,, the US Supreme Court discussed the right to a jury, holding that when both equitable and legal claims are brought, the right to a jury trial still exists for the legal claim, which would be decided by a jury before the judge ruled on the equitable claim.

The summary judgment ruling was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, but was unanimously reversed by the US Supreme Court in a decision titled MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.

* Lochner v. New York, 198 U. S. 45 ( 1905 ), a notorious, and now defunct case by the US Supreme Court that regulation of working time ( for bakeries ) to limit workers to a 10-hour day.

Segregation of US tourist accommodation would legally be ended by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and by a court ruling in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States affirming that Congress ' powers over interstate commerce extend to regulation of local incidents ( such as racial discrimination in a motel serving interstate travellers ) which might substantially and harmfully affect that commerce.

* 2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.

A more recent incident in December 2006 ( see United States v. Boucher ) involving US customs agents and a seized laptop PC which allegedly contained child pornography indicates that US Government agencies find it " nearly impossible " to access PGP-encrypted files.

The US Supreme Court, largely abolished the exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of ' quasi in rem ' in Shaffer v. Heitner, except in exceptional circumstances, which sometimes would arise while dealing with real property such as land, and when the owner of the land cannot be found.

In 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that public school segregation was unconstitutional.

However, a closely divided US Supreme Court decision, Garcetti v. Ceballos ( 2006 ) held that the First Amendment free speech guarantees for government employees do not protect disclosures made within the scope of the employees ' duties.

The US Supreme Court dealt what many considered a major blow to government whistleblowers when, in the case of Garcetti v. Ceballos, 04-5, 547 US 410, it ruled that government employees did not have protection from retaliation in performance evaluations by their employers under the First Amendment of the Constitution if the alleged speech was produced as part of his / her duties.

** Wesberry v. Sanders ( 376 US 1 1964 ): The Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.

** New York Times Co. v Sullivan ( 376 US 254 1964 ): The United States Supreme Court rules that under the First Amendment, speech criticizing political figures cannot be censored.

* December 14 – Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States ( 379 US 241 1964 ): The U. S. Supreme Court rules that, in accordance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, establishments providing public accommodations must refrain from racial discrimination.

** Brown v. Board of Education ( 347 US 483 1954 ): The United States Supreme Court rules that segregated schools are unconstitutional.

On June 28, 2010, the US Supreme Court held, in a 5 – 4 decision in McDonald v. Chicago, that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment, thus protecting the right of an individual to " keep and bear arms " from local governments, and all but declared Mayor Jane Byrne's 1982 handgun ban unconstitutional.

US $ 547 million ( in 2001 )

In contrast, US casualties during the same period numbered just 314 killed and 1, 600 wounded, while Commonwealth, South Korean and other UN contingents brought the total to 547 killed, 2, 024 wounded and 2, 170 captured ; the disparity highlighting the devastating effect of enormous UN firepower against massed infantry.

Jesús F. Reyes Heroles the former Mexican Ambassador to the US, stated that " In a poor country like ours, the alternative to low-paid jobs isn't well-paid ones, it's no jobs at all.

It is approximately the amount of energy needed to heat of water, which is exactly one tenth of a UK gallon or about 0. 1198 US gallons, from 39 ° F to 40 ° F ( 3. 8 ° C to 4. 4 ° C ).

Belief in conspiracy theories has become a topic of interest for sociologists, psychologists and experts in folklore since at least the 1960s, when the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy eventually provoked an unprecedented public response directed against the official version of the case as expounded in the Report of the Warren Commission.

* 1962 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.

The letters used to designate a fighter differ in various countries — in the English speaking world, " F " is now used to indicate a fighter ( e. g. F-35 or Spitfire F. 22 ), though when the pursuit designation was used in the US, they were " P " types ( e. g. P-40 ).

A longer version of the video ( based on the " Hibakusha " mix ) included an introductory cut-up monologue by Richard Nixon taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign (" No .. firm diplomacy ... No .. peace for America and the world "), plus similar contributions from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, Yasser Arafat and John F. Kennedy.

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Adenauer had come into the year distrusting the new US President, John F. Kennedy.

It was here that US President John F. Kennedy gave his famous speech to the Berliners, in which he stated: " Ich bin ein Berliner ".

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* 1963 – In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded.

* 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval " quarantine " of the Communist nation.

In this alternate history the corrupt US President Ferris F. Fremont ( FFF for 666, ‘ F ’ being the 6th letter in the alphabet, see Number of the Beast ) becomes Chief Executive in the late Nineteen-Sixties following Lyndon Johnson's administration.

Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin depicted on a 1936 US postage stamp commemorating 100th anniversary of the Texas Republic

US president John F. Kennedy led his sailors swimming island to island after his torpedo boat was sunk in World War II.

The program was led by David Peck Todd with the military assistance of Admiral Edward W. Eberle ( Chief of Naval Operations ), with William F. Friedman ( chief cryptographer of the US Army ), assigned to translate any potential Martian messages.

For example, in the US D, E, and F PCS spectrum blocks, the amount of spectrum available is 5 MHz in each direction.

President John F. Kennedy was quoted as saying that it would be " some time " before the US could match the Soviet launch vehicle technology, and that " the news will be worse before it's better.

Birmingham Bulls owner John F. Bassett wanted to confront the NHL by signing as many young and promising superstars as possible and saw Gretzky as the most promising young prospect, but it was Racers owner Nelson Skalbania who signed 17-year-old Gretzky to a seven-year personal services contract worth $ 1. 75 million US.