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.

In a landmark case, the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) ruled on 5 July 1994 against the British practice of importing produce from northern Cyprus based on certificates of origin and phytosanitary certificates granted by the de facto authorities.

This compilation of a dozen accounts ( half of which, including the case of Morgan, had been previously published ) stands as a landmark work, a Puritan precursor of the true-crime miscellanies that, stripped of all religious intent, would become a staple of the genre in subsequent centuries.

Landeros v. Flood was a landmark case used to purposely change the behavior of doctors, and encourage them to report suspected child abuse.

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 the landmark case of Frendak v. United States, the court ruled that the insanity defense cannot be imposed upon an unwilling defendant if an intelligent defendant voluntarily wishes to forego the defense.

The result was the landmark " palimony " case, Marvin v. Marvin, 18 Cal.

Sanger's efforts contributed to the landmark U. S. Supreme Court case which legalized contraception in the United States.

Marbury v. Madison,, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.

In Escola, now widely recognized as a landmark case in American law, Justice Traynor laid the foundation for Greenman with these words:

State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group is the landmark case in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled ( July 23, 1998 ) that a computer algorithm can be patented to the extent that it produces " a useful, concrete and tangible result ".

While the patent was initially rejected by the patent office as being a purely mathematical invention, following 12 years of appeals, Pardo and Landau won a landmark court case at the CCPA ( Predecessor Court of the Federal Circuit ) overturning the Patent Office in 1983 — establishing that " something does not cease to become patentable merely because the point of novelty is in an algorithm.

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school.

** Oral arguments begin in the landmark U. S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, 388 U. S. 1 ( 1967 ), challenging the State of Virginia's statutory scheme to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications.

* June 7 – Homer Plessy ( who is black ) is arrested for sitting on the whites-only car in Louisiana, leading to the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson court case.

In 1997, in the landmark cyberlaw case of Reno v. ACLU, the United States Supreme Court struck the anti-indecency provisions of the Act.

In 1969, the court established stronger protections for speech in the landmark case Brandenburg v. Ohio which held that " the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action ".

The city was the respondent in ( and eventual loser of ) the landmark property rights case, Dolan v. City of Tigard, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1994.

* The landmark 1973 United States Supreme Court abortion case Roe v. Wade gets half of its name from Jane Roe, an anonymous plaintiff later revealed to be named Norma McCorvey.

A First Amendment landmark case was National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, in which neo-Nazis threatened to march in a predominantly Jewish suburb of Chicago.

The only landmark case in the Philippines on name and gender legal change is the Jeff case.

When the Supreme Court issued its decision in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 347 US 483 ( 1954 ), Eastland, like most Southern Democrats, denounced it.

Brown v. Board of Education,, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.

For a variety of reasons ( including Mauchly's June 1941 examination of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, prototyped in 1939 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry ), US patent 3, 120, 606 for ENIAC, granted in 1964, was voided by the 1973 decision of the landmark federal court case Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, putting the invention of the electronic digital computer in the public domain and providing legal recognition to Atanasoff as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer.

The idea of a general duty of care that runs to all who could be foreseeably affected by one's conduct ( accompanied by the demolishing of the privity barrier ) first appeared in the landmark U. S. case of MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. ( 1916 ) and was imported into UK law by another landmark case, Donoghue v Stevenson.

For example, Justice Harlan in 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson landmark Supreme Court opinion, wrote, ' There is no caste here.

* Switzman v. Elbling, a landmark 1957 Supreme Court of Canada decision

The landmark judicial decision on the constitutionality of this law was R. v. Keegstra ( 1990 ).

Mabo v Queensland ( No 2 ) ( commonly known as Mabo ) was a landmark High Court of Australia decision recognising native title in Australia for the first time.

In the United States, following a series of landmark cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, persons diagnosed with paraphilias and a history of anti-social behavior, particularly pedophilia ( Kansas v. Hendricks, 1997 ) and exhibitionism ( Kansas v. Crane, 2002 ), can be held indefinitely in civil confinement under various state legislation generically known as Sexually violent predator laws and the federal Adam Walsh Act ( United States v. Comstock, 2010 ).

In 1974, the United States Supreme Court issued the landmark decision, Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp., 416 U. S. 470, 94 S. Ct.

In the landmark decision Nixon v. General Services Administration former Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist declared in his dissent the need to " fully describe the preeminent position that the President of the United States occupies with respect to our Republic.

In United States telecommunication law, Modification of Final Judgment ( MFJ ) is the August 1982 agreement approved by the court ( consent decree ) settling United States v. AT & T, a landmark antitrust suit, originally filed on January 14, 1949 and modifying the previous Final Judgment of January 24, 1956.

The 139 page opinion of Kitzmiller v. Dover was hailed as a landmark decision, firmly establishing that creationism and intelligent design were religious teachings and not areas of legitimate scientific research.

Another set of names often used for anonymous parties, particularly plaintiffs, are Richard Roe for males and Jane Roe for females ( as in the landmark U. S. Supreme Court abortion decision Roe v. Wade ).

Besides its historical significance as a break with the centuries-old tradition of British insularity, Britain's move, if successful, will constitute an historic landmark of the first importance in the movement toward the unification of Europe and the Western world.

But it was a landmark.

Colorado's Grand Canyon, probably the most famous landmark of the United States, can be the highpoint of your Western vacation.

It involves the use of maps ( or memory ) to locate known landmark stars, and " hopping " between them, often with the aid of a finderscope.

Therefore it was a major landmark when in 1865 Johann Josef Loschmidt measured the size of the molecules that make up air.

The large sign, formerly reading " University of Lawsonomy ", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and was visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line, on the east side of the highway.

Title IV of the ADA amended the landmark Communications Act of 1934 primarily by adding section.

* 1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.

* Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden.

Carnegie, through Keystone, supplied the steel for and owned shares in the landmark Eads Bridge project across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri ( completed 1874 ).

are landmark buildings on the campus of Acadia University.

His large house ( purchased in 1509 from the heirs of the astronomer Bernhard Walther ), where his workshop was located and where his widow lived until her death in 1539, remains a prominent Nuremberg landmark.

The campaign seeks to gain World Heritage Status for the iconic Angus landmark that was the birthplace of one of Scotland's most significant documents, the Declaration of Arbroath.

He described it as brown in colour and the size of a wagon load ; it was a local landmark for more than 500 years.

The Rajasthan Land Reforms and Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1952 was the landmark in the legal history of land reforms in Rajasthan which was followed by Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 that became applicable to the whole of Rajasthan.

The city restored the historic Art Deco city landmark Alameda Theatre, expanding it to include a theater multiplex.

In 1976 he appeared in his first mainstream film role, in Martin Scorsese's landmark Taxi Driver ; Scorsese allowed Brooks to improvise much of his dialogue.

One national landmark in the Bronx is the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, overlooking the Harlem River and designed by the renowned architect Stanford White.

The Brandenburg Gate is an iconic landmark of Berlin and Germany.

There were four landmark Sunday-law cases altogether in 1961.

Ulu Cami is the largest mosque in Bursa and a landmark of early Ottoman architecture, which carried many elements from the Seljuk architecture.

He designed consumer products, standardized parts, created clean-lined designs for the company's graphics, developed a consistent corporate identity, built the modernist landmark AEG Turbine Factory, and made full use of newly developed materials such as poured concrete and exposed steel.

In his landmark work, The Singer of Tales, Albert Lord refers to the work of Francis P. Magoun and others, saying “ the documentation is complete, thorough, and accurate.