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unusual facts about US Supreme Court



By the Court decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada

The practice began around 1979 by Chief Justice Laskin, borrowing from the US Supreme Court practice of anonymizing certain unanimous decisions.

El Rancho Vegas

Stripper Candy Barr was headlining at El Rancho Vegas in 1959 when she was arrested by the FBI after her appeal on a marijuana conviction originating in Texas was rejected by the US Supreme Court.

Faria, California

Faria is the home of several beachfront properties along the Pacific coastline, one of which became the subject of the 1987 US Supreme Court case Nollan v. California Coastal Commission.

Future Trading Act

The Act was held to be an unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in Hill v. Wallace on May 15, 1922.

Georgia gubernatorial election, 1962

Second, the primary election was the first that took place under a winner-take-all system, as the previously used County Unit System had been struck down by the US Supreme Court in Gray v. Sanders.

Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research

Thanks to a contribution from the United Auto Workers “The Hand of God” was recast and donated to the city of Detroit in honor of Frank Murphy, Michigan Governor and US Supreme Court Associate Justice.

Insanity defense

In Ford v. Wainwright 477 U.S. 399 (1986), the US Supreme Court upheld the common law rule that the insane cannot be executed.

Isaac Lidsky

As a law clerk for Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2008-09, he became the first blind US Supreme Court clerk.

Licensee estoppel

The Supreme Court, in Lear, Inc. v. Adkins (1969), held the doctrine inconsistent with a federal policy that the invalidity of specious patents should be unmasked in order to permit full and free competition in technology ideas that belong in the public domain.

Marie Louise v. Marot

21 years after the decision, the created precedent was relied upon by US Supreme Court Justice John McLean in the landmark decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mimi Walters

Since the US Supreme Court decision Kelo v. New London in June 2005, Walters has been at the forefront of amending California government acquisition and the regulation of private property laws.

Paul Posnak

He has performed at the White House, the US Supreme Court, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Sarah Aldridge

After earning her undergraduate degree, followed in 1933 by her law degree from the National University of Washington, D.C. (now George Washington University), she was admitted to practice in Virginia and Washington D.C., and before the US Court of Claims and the US Supreme Court.

The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics

The book explores the US Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, in which the court ruled that the federal government could not regulate slavery in the territories.


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Ayotte

Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, a 2006 case in the US Supreme Court on the subject of abortion

Ella Winter

She met the U.S. journalist and 'muckraker' Lincoln Steffens at the Versailles Conference, where she was secretary to US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.

Grain Futures Act

The bill that became the Grain Futures Act was introduced in the United States Congress two weeks after the US Supreme Court declared the Futures Trading Act of 1921 unconstitutional in Hill v. Wallace 259 U.S. 44 (1922).

Hamdan

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, US Supreme Court case involving Salim Ahmed Hamdan

Hotchkiss v. Greenwood

It was the first US Supreme Court case to introduce the concept of non-obviousness as patentability requirement in United States patent law.

Indian Reorganization Act

In 2008 (before the US Supreme Court heard the Carcieri case below), in MichGO v Kempthorne, Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote a dissent stating that she would have struck down key provisions of the IRA.

Island Trees Union Free School District

The district went to the US Supreme Court to defend banning books in Island Trees School District v. Pico.

John Harlan

John Marshall Harlan II (1899–1971), his grandson, US Supreme Court Justice, 1955–1971

Joseph Tepper

He was an active portrait painter well into his 70s and many famous people were among his subjects including Justices Brandeis and Frankfurter of the US Supreme Court, Professors George Lyman Kittredge and Paul Freund of Harvard University, Cardinal Stritch, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Hayim Bialik, Ahad Ha-Am, Henrietta Szold, and many more.

Lawrence Rockwood

Between his court martial and the US Supreme Court denying his petition for a Writ of Certiorari in 2001, he pursued his PhD in diplomatic history at the University of Florida and worked as a human rights activists.

Pancuronium bromide

In September 2007, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear their first case of whether or not the use of lethal injection does in fact violate the US Constitution's Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Philadelphia Naval Shipyard

The planned closing was unsuccessfully litigated to the US Supreme Court in Dalton v. Specter.

Polylogism

For example, US Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor has been accused of racialist polylogism for suggesting that a "wise Latina" might come to different legal conclusions than a white male.

WKA

United States v. Wong Kim Ark, a US Supreme Court case concerning citizenship