In Grady v. Corbin ( 1990 ), the Court held that a double jeopardy violation could lie even where the Blockburger test was not satisfied, but Grady was overruled in United States v. Dixon ( 1993 ).

Blockburger is the default rule, unless it legislatively intends to depart ; for example, Continuing Criminal Enterprise ( CCE ) may be punished separately from its predicates, as can conspiracy.

The Blockburger test, originally developed in the multiple punishments context, is also the test for prosecution after conviction.

* Sheldon Blockburger ( b. 1964 ), American decathlete

Lincoln denounced the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford as a conspiracy to extend slavery.

In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford ; Chief Justice Roger B. Taney opined that blacks were not citizens, and derived no rights from the Constitution.

One example of this ( from the Queen's Bench in England ) is Doyle v Olby ( Ironmongers ) Ltd 2 QB 158, the claimant appealed ( successfully ) on the basis that, although he won in the court below, the lower court had applied the wrong measure of damages and he had not been fully recompensated.

" " Graham v. Borgen ", 483 F 3d.

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The doctrine that no man can cast off his native allegiance without the consent of his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and Chief Justice John Rutledge also declared in Talbot v. Janson, " a man may, at the same time, enjoy the rights of citizenship under two governments.

Austrian economics, 3 v. Edward Elgar.

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Part of Title I was found unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court as it pertains to states in the case of Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett as violating the sovereign immunity rights of the several states as specified by the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In fact, Congress explicitly cited Toyota v. Williams in the text of the ADAAA itself as one of its driving influences for passing the ADAAA.

Access Now v. Southwest Airlines

Access Now v. Southwest Airlines was a case where the District Court decided that the website of Southwest Airlines was not in violation of the Americans with Disability Act because the ADA is concerned with things with a physical existence and thus cannot be applied to cyberspace.

The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota released its judgement on October 19, 1973, finding in Honeywell v. Sperry Rand that the ENIAC patent was a derivative of John Atanasoff's invention.

* 1905 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the " right to free contract " is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

In the Georgacarakos v. Watts case Peter N. Georgacarakos filed a pro se civil-rights complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against 19 prison officials for " interference with the free exercise of his Ásatrú religion " and " discrimination on the basis of his being Ásatrú ".

North Carolina v. Alford, Supreme Court of the United States | U. S. Supreme Court ( 1970 )

The Alford guilty plea originated in the United States Supreme Court case of North Carolina v. Alford ( 1970 ).

In the 2006 case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ballard v. Burton, Judge Carl E. Stewart writing for the Court held that an Alford guilty plea is a " variation of an ordinary guilty plea ".

* North Carolina v. Alford, Supreme Court of the United States

* 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

* 1895 – In Pollock v. Farmers ' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.

* 2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping " an oppressive thumb " on its competitors.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), that Maryland's blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The field of modern biotechnology is thought to have largely begun on June 16, 1980, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a genetically modified microorganism could be patented in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty.

** C. v. mexicanus ( Linnaeus, 1766 )-eastern United States west of Atlantic Seaboard to Great Plains

The case was heard on October 12, 1982, and on May 24, 1983, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled against Bob Jones University in Bob Jones University v. United States ( 461 U. S. 574 ).

It was settled in the case of United States v. Hudson and Goodwin,, which decided that federal courts had no jurisdiction to define new common law crimes, and that there must always be a ( constitutional ) statute defining the offense and the penalty for it.

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority ..." The first famous statement of " the judicial power " was Marbury v. Madison,.

See, e. g., Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, ( giving federal courts the authority to fashion common law rules with respect to issues of federal power, in this case negotiable instruments backed by the federal government ); see also International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U. S. 215 ( 1918 ) ( creating a cause of action for misappropriation of " hot news " that lacks any statutory grounding, but that is one of the handful of federal common law actions that survives today ); National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc., 105 F. 3d 841, 843-44, 853 ( 2d Cir.

It was the mutual bond and obligation between monarch and subjects, whereby subjects are called his liege subjects, because they are bound to obey and serve him ; and he is called their liege lord, because he should maintain and defend them ( Ex parte Anderson ( 1861 ) 3 El & El 487 ; 121 ER 525 ; China Navigation Co v Attorney-General ( 1932 ) 48 TLR 375 ; Attorney-General v Nissan 1 All ER 629 ; Oppenheimer v Cattermole 3 All ER 1106 ).

* 1932: Powell v. Alabama

* Powell v. Alabama, 287 U. S. 45 ( 1932 )— access to counsel

During the mid-20th century, partly as a result of cases such as Powell v. Alabama, 287 U. S. 45 ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright, 321 U. S. 649 ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U. S. 1 ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U. S. 629 ( 1950 ); McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U. S. 637 ( 1950 ); NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U. S. 449 ( 1958 ); Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U. S. 454 ( 1960 ) and probably the most famous, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U. S. 483 ( 1954 ), the tide against segregation began to turn.

In academic literature, the phenomenon of regulatory competition reducing standards overall was argued for by AA Berle and GC Means in The Modern Corporation and Private Property ( 1932 ) while the concept received formal recognition by the US Supreme Court in a decision of Justice Louis Brandeis in the 1933 case Ligget Co. v. Lee ( 288 U. S. 517, 558 – 559 ).

In 1932, Brandeis also popularized the concept " Laboratories of Democracy " in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann ( 285 U. S. 262, 311 ).

The U. S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ( 1954 ); Powell v. Alabama ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter ( 1950 ); and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents ( 1950 ) led to a shift in tactics, and from 1955 to 1965, " direct action " was the strategy — primarily bus boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and social movements.

During this time, the court did decide several important cases, including Attorney-General ( New South Wales ) v Trethowan ( 1931 ), which considered Premier of New South Wales Jack Lang's attempt to abolish the New South Wales Legislative Council, and the First State Garnishee case ( 1932 ), which upheld federal legislation compelling the Lang government to repay its loans.

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* Nixon v. Condon, 286 U. S. 73 ( 1932 ) all white Texas Democratic Party unconstitutional