I fought like a tigress but by the time I appealed my case to the Supreme Court ( 1937 ), Mr. Roosevelt and his `` henchmen '' had done their `` dirty work '' all too well, even going so far as to attempt to `` pack '' the highest tribunal in the land in order to defeat little me.

But the Supreme Court wouldn't even hear my case!!

The Supreme Court decision in mid-1960 was in the case of a company making sewer pipe from clay which it mined.

His reputation grew, and he appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States, arguing a case involving a canal boat that sank after hitting a bridge.

The highest state court, generally known as the Supreme Court, exercises discretion over whether it will review the case.

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.

The Act overturns a 1999 U. S. Supreme Court case that held that an employee was not disabled if the impairment could be corrected by mitigating measures ; it specifically provides that such impairment must be determined without considering such ameliorative measures.

The case was remanded to the District Court which did not apply the superior court's criteria ( on the grounds that in the interim, the Supreme Court had changed the applicable law ).

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

The case was then appealed to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court held that for the plea to be accepted, the defendant must have been advised by a competent lawyer who was able to inform the individual that his best decision in the case would be to enter a guilty plea.

" In the 1999 South Carolina Supreme Court case State v. Gaines, the Court held that Alford guilty pleas were to be held valid in the absence of a specific on-the-record ruling that the pleas were voluntary – provided that the sentencing judge acted appropriately in accordance with the rules for acceptance of a plea made voluntarily by the defendant.

" He said of the Supreme Court case, " They had to make a decision about what to do.

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 phrase " black-letter law " was used in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case Naglee v. Ingersoll, 7 Pa. 185 ( 1847 ), almost 50 years before the first publication of Black's.

There is also a U. S. Supreme Court case that predates the dictionary, Jackson ex dem Bradford v. Huntington, that uses the phrase " black letter " in the same sense as black letter law: " It is seldom that a case in our time savors so much of the black letter, but the course of decisions in New York renders it unavailable.

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.

On April 6, 2006, in a case arising from a game involving community college baseball teams, the Supreme Court of California ruled that baseball players in California assume the risk of being hit by baseballs even if the balls were intentionally thrown so as to cause injury.

After a decision in favor of Borland by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the case went to the United States Supreme Court.

Theodore went on to successfully represent presidential candidate George W. Bush in the Supreme Court case of Bush v. Gore, and subsequently served as U. S. Solicitor General in the Bush administration.

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.

On January 8, 1982, just before the case was to be heard by the U. S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan authorized his Treasury and Justice Departments to ask that the BJU case be dropped and that the previous court decisions be vacated.

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 ).

The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.

On the basis of the findings which led to this conclusion, the Court remanded the case to the District Court to determine the appropriate relief.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

Neither reason, said the Court, applied to the case at hand ; ;

The Court, nevertheless, relied on the Seaboard case and also mentioned that the shareholders of the two corporations were the same.

A similar case arose at the Bowers ranch in Butte County, and the Superior Court of that county issued similar restraining orders.

At Berger's direction, the city also intervened in the Hughes bankruptcy case in U. S. District Court in a move preliminary to filing a claim there.

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.

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 ".

In February 2011, the Bombay High Court reaffirmed astrology's standing in India when it dismissed a case which had challenged its status as a science.

" The Court allowed the guilty plea only with a simultaneous protestation of innocence as there was enough evidence to show that the prosecution had a strong case for a conviction, and the defendant was entering such a plea to avoid this possible sentencing.

* 1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.

In the United States, public school teacher unions, most notably the National Education Association ( the largest labor union in the USA ), argue against the idea of school vouchers for concern that it would erode educational standards and reduce funding, and that giving money to parents who choose to send their child to a religious or other school is unconstitutional ; however, the latter issue has been struck down by the Supreme Court case Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, which upheld Ohio's voucher plan in a 5-4 ruling.

The U. S. Supreme Court upheld the 8th Circuit Court's decision by declining to hear the case in June 2008.

In a famous Canadian Charter of Rights case, " Sandra Bell vs. City of Toronto ", 1997, the right to cultivate all native species, even most varieties deemed noxious or allergenic, was upheld as part of the right of free expression.

Some U. S. states have begun to ban the use of the insanity defense, and in 1994 the Supreme Court denied a petition of certiorari seeking review of a Montana Supreme Court case that upheld Montana's abolition of the defense.

Mullis took Cetus ' side in the case, and Khorana refused to testify for DuPont ; the jury upheld Mullis's patent in 1991.

Though the Court upheld a law prohibiting the forgery, mutilation, or destruction of draft cards in United States v. O ' Brien,, fearing that burning draft cards would interfere with the " smooth and efficient functioning " of the draft system, the next year, the court handed down its decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio,, expressly overruling Whitney v. California, ( a case in which a woman was imprisoned for aiding the Communist Party ).

The first U. S. Supreme Court case to uphold the ban against involuntary servitude was Bailey v. Alabama ( 1911 ).</ p >< p > Requiring specific performance as a remedy for breach of personal services contracts has regarded as a form of involuntary servitude by some scholars and courts, though other jurisdictions and scholars have rejected this argument ; it is a popular rule in academia and many local jurisdictions, but has never been upheld by higher courts .</ p >

In the first case, the court upheld the Law School admissions policy, while in the second it ruled against the university's undergraduate admissions policy.

This case was ruled without merit in 2002, a decision that was upheld on appeal.

Thus the two justices would have adjudicated the case and upheld the lower court opinion striking down the ban on corporate and union spending.

In both Abbott Laboratories and its first companion case, Toilet Goods Association v. Gardner,, the Court upheld pre-enforcement review of an administrative regulation.

The case was overturned on appeal to the Tenth Circuit and that decision was upheld by the US Supreme Court on January 18, 2012.

One well-known case which upheld such a disclaimer is Mortenson v. Timberline.

A Supreme Court case decision, In re Debs, later upheld the right of the federal government to issue the injunction.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. stated in his opinion that little attention was needed since Debs ' case was essentially the same as that of Schenck v. United States, in which the Court had upheld a similar conviction.

In March 1937, Associate Justice Owen Roberts, who had previously sided with the court's four conservative justices, shocked the American public by siding with Hughes and the court's three liberal justices in striking down the court's previous decision in the 1923 case Adkins v. Children's Hospital, which held that minimum wage laws where a violation of the Fifth Amendment's due process clause and were thus unconstitutional, and upheld the constitutionality of Washington state's minimum wage law in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish.

The constitutionality of zoning ordinances was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court in the 1926 case Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co ..

On March 11, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the words " under God " in the Pledge of Allegiance in the case of Newdow v. Rio Linda Union School District.

The case led to the first police raid in the United States on an animal laboratory, triggered an amendment in 1985 to the United States Animal Welfare Act, and became the first animal-testing case to be appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which upheld a Louisiana State Court ruling that denied PETA's request for custody of the monkeys.

However in March 2009, the UK Competition Commission ruled that BAA must sell Stansted within two years, a decision quashed within a year, but later upheld .. On 20 August 2012, after losing a case at the Court of Appeal, BAA announced they would sell Stansted.

Similarly, when the outlawed Batasuna tried to use Acción Nacionalista Vasca as a proxy to re-organize its ranks, in a different case the ECHR also upheld in 2011 the previous Spanish court rulings which had outlawed ANV, noting that this party had not run by itself in elections since 1977 and that it basically conformed a " fraud " to circumvent the outlawing of Batasuna.

In the 1980 case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty, the Supreme Court upheld a patent on a bacterium that had been genetically modified to consume petroleum, reasoning that U. S. law permits patents on " anything under the sun that is made by man.

The case went as far as the New Jersey Supreme Court which upheld lower court rulings in favor of James.