In 1909, well before the Securities Exchange Act was passed, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a corporate director who bought that company ’ s stock when he knew it was about to jump up in price committed fraud by buying while not disclosing his inside information.

In January 1909, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and in a new trial before another judge ( Landis recused himself ), Standard Oil was acquitted.

* Welch v. Swasey, a 1909 Supreme Court case concerning federal law

The vote was 4, 207 to 4, 024 in favor of the new county, but North Dakota's Attorney General sued the Secretary of State over the validity of the vote, and the formation was delayed until the Supreme Court affirmed the vote in January 1909.

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.

This effect was re-affirmed in Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co., 271 U. S. 170 ( 1926 ), in which the Supreme Court reviewed Pollock, the Corporation Excise Tax Act of 1909 and the Sixteenth Amendment, and concluded that " t was not the purpose or effect of that amendment to bring any new subject within the taxing power.

He was admitted to the New York bar in 1909 and admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States the same year.

* November 20-Ronald Martland, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada ( born 1909 )

* William Frierson Cooper ( 1820 – 1909 ), lawyer, politician and judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court

The transition of this member, Illustrious Frater Sylvester Clarke Gould, late of Manchester, N. H., on July 19, 1909, prevented the fulfillment of his personal ambition, and the actual work of organization and institution devolved upon the Imperator and Supreme Magus of the Society, George Winslow Plummer, who had received full initiation

In 1909 the family again relocated, to Leipzig, following his father's appointment to the Imperial Supreme Court.

In 1909, Lurton's friend, President William Howard Taft, named him to a seat on the Supreme Court that had been vacated by the death of Justice Rufus Wheeler Peckham.

Rufus Wheeler Peckham ( November 8, 1838 – October 24, 1909 ) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1895 until 1909.

Rufus Wheeler Peckham ( 1838 – 1909 ) followed in his namesake father's footsteps as a lawyer and in three of the positions that his father had held in New York: as the Albany district attorney ( 1869 – 1872 ), as a New York Supreme Court judge ( 1883 – 1886 ), and as a judge on the New York Court of Appeals ( 1886 – 1895 ).

In 1909 the Supreme Administrative Court ( Regeringsrätten ) and the Council on Legislation ( Lagrådet ) were created to assume certain tasks that had been handled by the Supreme Court.

He was appointed to the Exchequer Division of the High Court of Justice of Ontario in 1904 and to the Supreme Court of Canada on February 23, 1909, becoming Chief Justice in 1924 and serving until his retirement, two days before his death, in 1933.

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) Their youngest son, Joseph Morrison, would preside as the Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1904 to 1909.

The law was found to be in violation of the separate but equal clause in the state's constitution by the state's Supreme Court late in 1909 when no equal opportunity was offered for the state's African-American children.

* William T. Wallace ( 1828 – 1909 ), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California and an Attorney General of California

In 1909, he returned into the public service as head of the Supreme Construction Bureau and was elevated to noble rank in 1911.

In his " Liberty of Contract " ( 1909 ), Roscoe Pound critiqued freedom of contract laws by laying out case after case where labor rights were struck down by State and Federal Supreme Courts.

* John Robert Brown ( judge ) ( 1909 – 1993 ), member of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, noted for his key decisions in favor of civil rights

A new building was designed by Nangle and Nurzey in the Italianate style and built in 1909, just across from the Katoomba Court House.

After the Dayton Court House burned down in 1909, the seat was moved to Yerington in 1911.

The residents of the new town petitioned the Clerk of the County Court of Scott County, Missouri to incorporate the area into the fourth-class city of Chaffee on August 6, 1906 and the petition was granted on December 8, 1909.

National Register sites in Somerville include the white marble 1909 Somerville Court House and the wooden and stone colonial Wallace House ( today a museum ) where George Washington spent a winter during the American Revolutionary War.

* Guy W. Calissi ( 1909 – 80 ), New Jersey Superior Court judge.

Keystone was then incorporated in 1909 by the Circuit Court of McDowell County.

In 1909, the Northern District Court was established whereby McClain County was divided into two sections for legal matters for the convenience of the citizens.

* Gribble, Chateaubriand and his Court of Women ( New York, 1909 )

The Canon Court de 105 M ( montagne ) modele 1909 Schneider ( 105 mm mle. 1909 ) was a French mountain gun, manufactured by Schneider et Cie.

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Responding to these civil failures and discontent, the Qing Imperial Court attempted to reform the government in various ways, such as the decision to draft a constitution in 1906, the establishment of provincial legislatures in 1909 and the preparation for a national parliament in 1910.

From 1804 to 1909, the castle was the seat of the administrative governor and the District Court.

He was also co-winner ( with Paul d ' Estournelles de Constant ) of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1909 for his work at the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

In his first few years in politics, he served in a number of roles, including chairman of the Vermont Republican State Convention in 1908, Mayor of St. Albans in 1909, a delegate to the Congress of the Mint in 1912, and a member of the United States Court for China in 1917.

In the United States, the development of conservation can be traced to the Fogg Art Museum, and Edward Waldo Forbes, the Director of the Fogg from 1909 to 1944.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Baekeland a patent for a " Method of making insoluble products of phenol and formaldehyde " on December 7, 1909.

Silhouette effects in location scenes began to appear in 1909 in both the United States and Italy ; though as things developed, European film-makers made more use of this than the Americans did.

* 1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.

* 1909 – Dean Rusk, 54th United States Secretary of State ( d. 1994 )

Examples that were used in Paris were reported in the pages of Scientific American May 1907 and petrol-driven hearses began to be produced from 1909 in the United States.

By the end of 1909, an agreement had been reached providing for a reduction in the debt and the issuance of new 5 percent bonds: the bankers would control the Honduran railroad, and the United States government would guarantee continued Honduran independence and would take control of customer revenue.

The recommendations of the Brent Commission were endorsed by the United States Department of State and in 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt called for an international conference, the International Opium Commission, which was held in Shanghai in February 1909.

In Edinburgh Hibernian were founded in 1875 and in 1909 another club with Irish links, Dundee United, was formed.

* 1909 – United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.

* 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from ( Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom ) in 37 minutes.

* 1909 – U Thant, Burmese diplomat and 3rd United Nations Secretary General ( d. 1974 )

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

However, following Manchester United's first league title in 1908 and the FA Cup a year later, it was decided that Bank Street was too restrictive for Davies ' ambition ; in February 1909, six weeks before the club's first FA Cup title, Old Trafford was named as the home of Manchester United, following the purchase of land for around £ 60, 000.

In 1909, the United States provided political support to conservative-led forces rebelling against President Zelaya.

* 1909 – Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries ( including two Americans ) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

Psychoanalysis started to receive recognition in the United States in 1909, when Sigmund Freud delivered a series of lectures at Clark University in Massachusetts at the invitation of G. Stanley Hall.

* 1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.

Theodore " Teddy " Roosevelt ( ; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919 ) was the 26th President of the United States of America ( 1901 – 1909 ).

William Howard Taft ( September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930 ) was the 27th President of the United States ( 1909 – 1913 ) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States ( 1921 – 1930 ).