* 1938 – U. S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.

In 1938, the U. S. Supreme Court in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins 304 U. S. 64, 78 ( 1938 ), overruled earlier precedent, and held " There is no federal general common law ," thus confining the federal courts to act only as interpreters of law originating elsewhere.

From 1938 until 1995, the U. S. Supreme Court did not invalidate any federal statute as exceeding Congress ' power under the Commerce Clause.

He served as a New York Assistant District Attorney from 1929 to 1938 before becoming a clerk to secretary to Tammany Supreme Court Justice Joseph A. Gavagan.

In 1938, a famous Pennsylvania Supreme Court case took place over who owned the water rights to Lake Naomi, as the surrounding lands were soon owned by many different parties.

* Xiao Yang 肖扬 ( 1938 -; Heyuan, Guangdong ; Hakka pronunciation: Siau Yong ), President, Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, 1998 – 2008

Legal appeals of Luciano's conviction continued until October 10, 1938, when the U. S. Supreme Court refused to review his case.

In all, Jehovah's Witnesses brought 23 separate First Amendment actions before the U. S. Supreme Court between 1938 and 1946.

A " county-seat lawyer ", he remains the last Supreme Court justice appointed who did not graduate from any law school ( though Justice Stanley Reed who served from 1938 – 1957 was the last such justice to serve on the court ), although he did attend Albany Law School in Albany, New York for one year.

In 1938, Jackson became United States Solicitor General, serving until January 1940 as the government's chief advocate before the Supreme Court.

Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson, 303 U. S. 77 ( 1938 ) is a case in which the United States Supreme Court dealt with corporate entities.

Between 1938 and 1955, they were involved in forty-five United States Supreme Court cases.

* Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins ( 1938 ), a United States Supreme Court case which set forth the Erie doctrine

Eager to augment his power and angered by Roosevelt's and Barkley's refusal to accept his suggestion of appointing Logan to the Supreme Court, Chandler did not attend a long-planned dinner in Barkley's honor on January 22, 1938 ; instead, he held an event of his own at Louisville's exclusive Pendennis Club at which he alluded to his intentions of challenging Barkley during the upcoming Democratic senatorial primary.

The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia was preceded by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic ( July 1938 – November 1990 ), which in its turn was a successor of the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic ( February 1922 – July 1938 ).

Stanley Forman Reed ( December 31, 1884 – April 2, 1980 ) was a noted American attorney who served as United States Solicitor General from 1935 to 1938 and as an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1938 to 1957.

On January 5, 1938, 75-year-old Associate Justice George Sutherland announced he would retire from the Supreme Court on January 18.

Following the death of Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo in July 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked his old friend Frankfurter for recommendations of prospective candidates for the vacancy.

Frankfurter published several books including Cases Under the Interstate Commerce Act ; The Business of the Supreme Court ( 1927 ); Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court ( 1938 ); The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti ( 1927 ) and Felix Frankfurter Reminisces ( 1960 ).

Many of these early motels are still popular and are in operation, as in the case of the 3V Tourist Court in St. Francisville, Louisiana, built in 1938.

The Court's business continued to be small in 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939, although 1937 was marked by Monaco's acceptance of the Court protocol.

However, in Meese v. Keene,, the Court upheld the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, under which several Canadian films were defined as " political propaganda ," requiring their sponsors to be identified.

A Presidential Commission ( made up the Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann, and the President of the High Court ) assumes the powers of the new presidency, pending the popular election of the first President of Ireland in June 1938.

In early 1938, Raeder sat on the Court of Honour that tried and acquitted Fritsch for homosexuality.

Oral arguments in the appeal were made before the Third Circuit of the U. S. Court of Appeals on 9 November 1938.

In his dissent in the 1938 case of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson, Justice Hugo Black wrote " in 1886, this Court in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, decided for the first time that the word ' person ' in the amendment did in some instances include corporations.

* Carter Dickson's The Plague Court Murders ( 1934 ), The White Priory Murders ( 1934 ), The Red Widow Murders ( 1935 ), The Ten Teacups ( 1937 ), The Judas Window ( 1938 ), He Wouldn't Kill Patience ( 1944 )

Arrested on 1 July 1937, Niemöller was brought to a " Special Court " on 2 March 1938 to be tried for activities against the State.

* James Robertson ( judge ) ( born 1938 ), American District Court Judge

With the Suddeten agreement in 1938, Soviet foreign policy reversed, with Stalin abandoning anti-German policies and adopting pro-German policies.

When the Anti-Hindi agitations broke out in 1965, Rajaji completely reversed his 1938 support for the introduction of Hindi and took a strongly anti-Hindi stand in support of the protests, On 17 January 1965, he convened the Madras state Anti-Hindi conference in Tiruchirapalli.

In June 1937, the ministry of the interior forbade civil servants to be members of the Rotary ; in July 1937, the NSDAP's party court reversed its previous rulings and declared Party and Rotarian membership incompatible as from January 1938.

By the end of 1938, despite the deaths of several colleagues at the hands of the Nazis, Fallada reversed his decision to finally emigrate.

In 1938, due to an incident when an instructor defected to the West using a glider, the Soviet government reversed its decision regarding glider training, banned the sport of gliding and shut down the Moscow Glider Factory.

In 1937 the positions were reversed but Spartak won both league and cup in 1938 and 1939, much to the annoyance of Lavrenty Beria, the head of the secret police, who was also the president of Dynamo.

In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ( S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A ), and in 2004 rebranded itself and officially changed its public name to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ).

The 1938 film, The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, portrayed Robin as a hero on a national scale, leading the oppressed Saxons in revolt against their Norman overlords while Richard the Lionheart fought in the Crusades ; this movie established itself so definitively that many studios resorted to movies about his son ( invented for that purpose ) rather than compete with the image of this one.

A 1938 Report on the British Press ( from the think tank Political and Economic Planning ) expressed concerns that " a dangerous tendency has recently been manifesting itself by which entertainment ceases to be ancillary to news and either supersedes it or absorbs it ; many people welcome a newspaper that under the guise of presenting news, enables them to escape from the grimness of actual events and the effort of thought by opening the backdoor of triviality and sex appeal.

The Purple machine itself was first used by Japan in June 1938, but U. S. and British cryptanalysts had broken some of its messages well before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

After the war, France petitioned for the nullification of the 1938 Franco-Siamese Treaty and attempted to reassert itself in the region, but came into conflict with the Viet Minh, a coalition of Communist and Vietnamese nationalists under French-educated dissident Ho Chi Minh.

The law itself was largely replaced by the much more comprehensive Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938.

The band failed to distinguish itself from the many others of the era, and broke up after playing its last show at the Ritz Ballroom in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 2, 1938.

In a 1938 lecture, Rank said: " Life in itself is a mere succession of separations.

" The name itself was originally inspired by Margot Stevenson, the Broadway ingénue who would later be chosen to voice Lane opposite Welles ' Shadow during " the 1938 Goodrich summer season of the radio drama.

The psychical researcher Ernesto Bozzano ( 1938 ) had also supported a similar view describing the phenomena of the OBE experience in terms of bilocation in which an " etheric body " can release itself from the physical body in rare circumstances.

The inlet itself, which separates the barrier beaches of Hampton Bays with those of neighboring Southampton, was created in the New England Hurricane of 1938 when the forces of the hurricane washed over that area of barrier beach, connecting the waters of the Atlantic with the bay.

In 1938 after Disney's success with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Paramount gave the Fleischers permission to produce a feature film and Fleischer studio relocated itself from New York to Miami, Florida in order to avoid organized unions, which became a threat to the studio after a five-month strike occurred among Fleischer Studio workers in late 1937.

Little Orphan Annie inspired a radio show in 1930, film adaptations by RKO in 1932 and Paramount in 1938 and a Broadway musical Annie in 1977 ( which itself was released as a film in 1982 ).

The 1938 general election was called when the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Neville Chamberlain was negotiating a settlement of outstanding disputes with Éamon de Valera, whose new constitution laid claim to Northern Ireland, and the 1949 election was called when the Irish government declared itself a republic.

Jones debuted the character in the 1939 short Naughty But Mice ( which is quite similar to Disney's " The Country Cousin " itself ) though he has nearly identical traits to the hero kitten in the 1938 short The Night Watchman.

In 1938, a letter was sent to all the bishops of Denmark, produced in the same manner as " Toward the Light " itself, urging the Church authorities in Denmark to communicate the truth about God to their congregations-and to the public at large.

Following the de-facto annexation of Austria in 1938, Germany informally named itself the Greater German Reich ().

When the CIO formally established itself as a rival to the AFL in 1938, renaming itself as the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the ILGWU and the Millinery Workers left the CIO to return to the AFL.

The Edward Grey Institute ( EGI ) was founded in 1938, having grown out of the Oxford Bird Census, itself founded in 1927.

Topps itself was founded in 1938, but the company can trace its roots back to an earlier firm, American Leaf Tobacco.

After much violence, Codreanu was approached by Goga and agreed to have his party withdraw from campaigning in the scheduled elections of 1938, believing that, in any event, the regime had no viable solution and would wear itself out — while attempting to profit from the king's authoritarianism by showing his willingness to integrate any possible single-party system.

In 1938, on the same land, the group built the Christchurch Garden Theatre, which called itself The First Rosicrucian Theatre in England.

In 1938, Arcand was chosen leader of the fascist National Unity Party of Canada, born of the fusion of his Parti National Social Chrétien with the Prairie Provinces ’ Canadian Nationalist Party and Ontario ’ s Nationalist Party, which itself grew out of the Toronto Swastika Clubs of the early thirties.