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unusual facts about List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 82


Samuel Jaudon

Mary sued Jaudon, who sued his bank, who countersued in a case that was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court.


Augustus Octavius Bacon

During the Civil Rights Movement, the use of Bacon’s park was the subject of a Supreme Court Case entitled Evans v. Newton which was decided in 1966.

Brad Hendricks

In 1980, after graduating from law school, Hendricks was recruited by the State of Arkansas as a Compliance Attorney to bring the Arkansas Department of Correction into compliance with legal standards announced by the United States Supreme Court in Hutto v. Finney, 437 U.S. 678 (1978).

Grand juries in the United States

The case for such secrecy was unanimously upheld by the Burger Court in Douglas Oil Co. of Cal. v. Petrol Stops Northwest, 441 US 211 (1979).

Grutter v. Bollinger

Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), was a landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Michigan Law School.

Lorenzo Brentano

In this line of work he published a report of the trial of the assassin of President Garfield, and a history of the celebrated case of Kring v. Missouri (see List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 107).

Peter B. Rutledge

In 2008, he argued before the Supreme Court in Irrizary v. United States.

Race and the War on Drugs

The idea that minorities have to somehow “prove” that racial discrimination was being used during a search and seizure (United States v. Armstrong, 1996) and that the Equal Protection Law has been separated from the Fourth Amendment through successive court decisions leaves the accused at a disadvantage.


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