Mr. Justice Black was one of the minority that rested on the Article 1, power.

Mr. Justice Black led a reversing majority: `` Strict local rules of pleading cannot be used to impose unnecessary burdens upon rights of recovery authorized by federal law ''.

* 1886 – Hugo Black, U. S. Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1971 )

For this reason, Justice Black and Justice Douglas indicated their disapproval of special interrogatories even in civil cases.

In particular, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote in a dissent that " t is high time, in my judgment, to wipe out root and branch the judge-invented and judge-maintained notion that judges can try criminal contempt cases without a jury.

In the 1961 decision, Justice Hugo Black commented in a footnote, " Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others.

Nonetheless, this case was cited by Justice Black to justify the inclusion of secular humanism in the list of religions in his note.

Presumably Justice Black added the word secular to emphasize the non-theistic nature of the Fellowship of Humanity and distinguish their brand of humanism from that associated with, for example, Christian humanism.

* Hugo Black, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who cited John Lilburne's trial in several opinions beginning with In re Oliver in 1948

Justice Hugo Black adopted Jefferson's words in the voice of the Court, and concluded that " government must be neutral among religions and nonreligion: it cannot promote, endorse, or fund religion or religious institutions.

Nevertheless, the Court's balance began to shift within months when Justice van Devanter retired and was replaced by Senator Hugo Black.

* September 25 – Hugo Black, American Supreme Court Justice ( b. 1886 )

* February 27 – Hugo Black, U. S. Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1971 )

In a case challenging corporate tax rates, Justice Black wrote:

Justice Douglas, dissenting in Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander ( 337 U. S. 562, 1949 ), gave an opinion similar to, but shorter than, the one quoted above, to which Justice Black concurred.

Yet both Justice Black and Justice Douglas dissented from the Supreme Court's 1957 decision in United States v. United Auto Workers, 352 U. S. 567 ( 1957 ), in which the Court, on procedural grounds, overruled a lower court decision striking down the prohibition on corporate and union political expenditures:

Seagal is credited as a producer and sometimes a writer on many of these DTV movies, which include Black Dawn, Belly of the Beast, Out of Reach, Submerged, Kill Switch, Urban Justice, Pistol Whipped, Against the Dark, Driven to Kill, A Dangerous Man, Born to Raise Hell and The Keeper, a movie released in Japan fifteen weeks earlier than the United States.

Justice Hugo Black stated: By this time, four states had a minimum voting age below 21.

* Young Black Men and the Criminal Justice System: A Growing National Problem ( 1990 ) – a report that documented that nearly one in four African American males in the age group 20-29 was under some form of criminal justice supervision

* Young Black Americans and the Criminal Justice System: Five Years Later ( 1995 ) – a report demonstrating that the proportion of African American males ages 20-29 under criminal justice supervision was approaching one in three

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (; born October 4, 1943, as Hubert Gerold Brown ), also known as H. Rap Brown, was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, and during a short-lived ( six months ) alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their Minister of Justice.

Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.

On review the Supreme Court, via Mr. Justice Frankfurter, found southern racial problems `` a sensitive area of social policy on which the federal courts ought not to enter unless no alternative to adjudication is open ''.

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.

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision said that slaves were " so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ".

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.

Each of the Justices of the Supreme Court has a single vote in deciding the cases argued before it ; the Chief Justice's vote counts no more than that of any other Justice.

However, retired Associate Justices ( unlike judges on senior status ) take no part in the consideration or decision of any cases before the Supreme Court, although they may be appointed by the Chief Justice to sit on lower courts.

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

The Act's applicability in prosecuting doctors who prescribe narcotics to addicts was successfully challenged in Linder v. United States in 1925, as Justice McReynolds ruled that the federal government has no power to regulate medical practice.

The International Court of Justice also says these settlements are illegal, and no foreign government supports Israel's settlements.

Punch was no different and contained illustrations such as Tenniel's " Justice " and " The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger ".

On May 3, Nixon appointed L. Patrick Gray, a Justice Department official with no FBI experience, as Acting Director, with W. Mark Felt remaining as Associate Director.

According to the Justice Department, " There has been no policy change nor blanket instruction for FBI agents to Mirandize detainees overseas.

Morocco protested the proposed referendum and took its case to the International Court of Justice at The Hague, which ruled that despite historical “ ties of allegiance ” between Morocco and the tribes of Western Sahara, there was no legal justification for departing from the UN position on self-determination.

Further, though no law requires that the oath of office be administered by any specific person, presidents are traditionally sworn in by the Chief Justice of the United States.

In affirming the lower courts decision to dismiss, Justice Abrams wrote: " Although Korb has a secured right to speak out on matters of public concern, and he has a right to express views with which Raytheon disagrees, he has no right to do so at Raytheon's expense.

Justice Brennan also wrote that he expected no state would pass a law obviously violating any one of these principles, so court decisions regarding the Eighth Amendment would involve a " cumulative " analysis of the implication of each of the four principles.

In Harmelin, Justice Scalia, joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist, said " the Eighth Amendment contains no proportionality guarantee ," and that " what was ' cruel and unusual ' under the Eighth Amendment was to be determined without reference to the particular offense.

Justice Scalia ( joined by Chief Justice Roberts ) wrote in dissent that " the proposed Eighth Amendment would have been laughed to scorn if it had read ' no criminal penalty shall be imposed which the Supreme Court deems unacceptable.

While the Chief Justice is appointed by the President, there is no specific constitutional prohibition against using another method to select the Chief Justice from among those Justices properly appointed and confirmed to the Supreme Court, and at least one scholar has proposed that presidential appointment should be done away with, and replaced by a process that permits the Justices to select their own Chief Justice.