This decision made corporations more vulnerable to prosecution by limiting the rights of individuals as delineated in Boyd v. U. S. ( 1886 ).

An 1886 Colorado Supreme Court decision set the boundary at the Continental Divide, although the land between the Medicine Bow Range and the divide was made part of Jackson County in 1909.

It took a decision by the Colorado Supreme Court in 1886 to declare North Park part of Larimer County, setting Grand County's northern boundary.

In 1886, Robinson investigated the charges brought against Sir John Pope Hennessy, Governor of Mauritius, and decreed his suspension pending the decision of the home authorities, who eventually reinstated Hennessy.

Over 20, 000 Mle 1884 rifles had already been issued when the decision to adopt the Mle 1886 Lebel rifle was taken.

Sources close to the institution of the prayer in 1886, including an account of a conversation with Pope Leo XIII about his decision, say nothing of the alleged vision.

He is the author of numerous books including Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights, in which he argues that the 1886 U. S. Supreme Court decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company ( 118 U. S. 394 ) did not actually grant corporate personhood, and that this doctrine derives from a mistaken interpretation of a Supreme Court clerk's notes.

In 1882 the work stopped for a re-think and once again re-started in 1886 when the decision was taken to delete from the plan one quarter of the design.

The Plessy decision did not address an earlier Supreme Court case, Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U. S. 356 ( 1886 ), involving discrimination against Chinese immigrants, that held that a law that is race-neutral on its face, but is administered in a prejudicial manner, is an infringement of the Equal Protection Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

However, in a decision in 1886, Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that state laws regulating interstate railroads were unconstitutional because they violated the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, which gives Congress the exclusive power " to regulate Commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.

In 1863 the name of the Republic was changed officially to " United States of Colombia ", and in 1886 the country adopted its present name: " Republic of Colombia ".

David Rice Atchison ( August 11, 1807January 26, 1886 ) was a mid-19th century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri.

The University of Missouri subsequently established the first department of electrical engineering in the United States in 1886.

When the administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention ( 1883 ) and the Berne Convention ( 1886 ) merged in 1893, they located in Berne, and also adopted the term intellectual property in their new combined title, the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

* 1886 – The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.

* 1886 – Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60.

* 1886 – Francis Biddle, American lawyer and judge, United States Attorney General ( d. 1968 )

In the end, the union between Panama and the Republic of New Granada ( under its various names United States of Colombia 1863 – 1886 and the Republic of Colombia since 1886 ) was made possible by the active participation of U. S. A. under the 1846 Bidlack Mallarino treaty until 1903.

Porter Blanchard ( 1886 – 1973 ) was an American silversmith living and working in Pacoima, California in the United States.

Adolph Rickenbacher was born in Switzerland in 1886 and emigrated to the United States with relatives after the death of his parents.

Originally patented in the German Empire, Gassner also received patents from Austria – Hungary, Belgium, the French Third Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( all in 1886 ) and the United States ( in 1887 ).

* October 5 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States ( d. 1886 )

From 1886 onward, the Secretary of War was third in the line of succession to the presidency, after the Vice President of the United States and the Secretary of State.

* Chester A. Arthur ( 1829 – 1886 ), the 21st president of the United States

However, the American Point System standardized finally in 1886 is different from Hawks ’ original idea in that 1 pica is not precisely equal to < sup > 1 </ sup >⁄< sub > 6 </ sub > inch ( neither the Imperial inch nor the U. S. inch ), as the United States Type Founders ’ Association defined the standard pica to be the Johnson Pica which had been adopted and used by Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan type foundry ( MS & J ), Philadelphia.

The official standard approved by the Fifteenth Meeting of the Type Founders Association of the United States in 1886 was this Johnson pica: It equals 0. 166 inch exactly one.

The action was affirmed in 1886 the Supreme Court, in United States v. Kagama, which affirmed that the US Government has Plenary power over all Native American tribes within its borders using the rationalization that “ The power of the general government over these remnants of a race once powerful ... is necessary to their protection as well as to the safety of those among whom they dwell ”

By 1886, Flagstaff was the largest city on the railroad line between Albuquerque and the west coast of the United States.

In 1886 Montgomery became the first city in the United States to install city-wide electric street cars along a system that was nicknamed the Lightning Route.

The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the linecaster invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.

Jean Pierre Hersholt ( 12 July 1886 – 2 June 1956 ) was a Danish-born actor who lived in the United States, where he was a leading film and radio talent, best known for his 17 years starring on radio in Dr. Christian and for playing Shirley Temple's grandfather in Heidi.

Early in 1886, arrangements were made for T. W. Glover, a lecturer from the United Kingdom Alliance, to conduct prohibition missions in various New Zealand centres.

By 1886, after the Alaska Purchase by the United States, the black sand beaches in the area were being mined for gold.

The county was created by the 1887 territorial legislature and named for Gilbert Ashville Pierce, governor of Dakota Territory from 1884 to 1886 and a representative of North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1889 to 1891.

Category: 1886 establishments in the United States

In 1886, after touring the United States, the twins returned to Europe with their family, where they fell very ill.

* 1886 – Hugo Black, U. S. Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1971 )

In the decades following the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court overturned laws barring blacks from juries ( Strauder v. West Virginia, 1880 ) or discriminating against Chinese Americans in the regulation of laundry businesses ( Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1886 ), as violations of the Equal Protection Clause.

* May 2 – Jose Abad Santos, Filipino chief justice of the Supreme Court ( b. 1886 )

* September 25 – Hugo Black, American Supreme Court Justice ( b. 1886 )

In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad ( 1886 ), the Supreme Court held, ipse dixit, that it considered the Fourteenth Amendment applicable to corporate activities.

In the 1886 case Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific, the Supreme Court directed the lawyers that the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection clause guarantees constitutional protections to corporations in addition to natural persons, and the oral argument should focus on other issues in the case.

* Hugo Black ( 1886 – 1971 ), born in Harlan, served as an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1937 until 1971

In 1886, when a Chinese laundry owner challenged the constitutionality of a San Francisco ordinance clearly designed to drive Chinese laundries out of business, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor, and in doing so, laid the theoretical foundation for modern equal protection constitutional law.

An 1886 bas-relief figure of Astraea in the Old Supreme Court Chamber at the Vermont State House.

An 1886 bas-relief figure of Astraea ( mythology ) | Dike Astraea in the Old Supreme Court Chamber at the Vermont State House.

* Fonda ( U. S. Supreme Court case ), an 1886 case ( 117 U. S. 516 )

* Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois, an 1886 U. S. Supreme Court case

The SP was the defendant in the landmark 1886 United States Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad which is often interpreted as having established certain corporate rights under the Constitution of the United States.

* 1886: Southern Pacific wins the landmark Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad which establishes equal rights under the law to corporations.

The 1871 Act was affirmed in 1886 by the US Supreme Court, in United States v. Kagama, which affirmed that the Congress has Plenary power over all Native American tribes within its borders by rationalization that “ The power of the general government over these remnants of a race once powerful … is necessary to their protection as well as to the safety of those among whom they dwell ”.

Cruikshank and Presser v. Illinois, which reaffirmed it in 1886, are the only significant Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment until the murky United States v. Miller in 1939, but both preceded the court's general acceptance of the incorporation doctrine and have been questioned for that reason.

* David Davis ( Supreme Court justice ) ( 1815 – 1886 ), Supreme Court Justice and U. S. Senator from Illinois

Guillermo Pablo, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1945 to 1955, was born on June 25, 1886 in San Antonio, Zambales.

One theme is its assessment as a " personality ", as a result of an 1886 case in the United States Supreme Court in which a statement by Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite led to corporations as " persons " having the same rights as human beings, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

After three years, Lurton then returned to his practice until 1886, when he was appointed to the Tennessee Supreme Court.