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    The Connecticut Supreme Court, formerly known as the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, is the highest court in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It consists...
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  • Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United...
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    Assembled in 1781, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1784 to 1785, and the 18th Governor of Connecticut from 1786 until his death. He was...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction...
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  • This is a list of justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court. A total of 47 justices served on the Supreme Court of Errors. Day, Thomas (1809). Reports...
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    Courts of Connecticut include: State courts of Connecticut Connecticut Supreme Court Connecticut Appellate Court Connecticut Superior Court (13 districts)...
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  • In the United States, a state supreme court (known by other names in some states) is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state. On matters...
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    District Court for the District of Connecticut (in case citations, D. Conn.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Connecticut. The...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869...
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    Connecticut's judicial branch is the Connecticut Supreme Court, headed by the Chief Justice of Connecticut. The Supreme Court is responsible for deciding on the constitutionality...
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  • Ellen Ash Peters (category Chief Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court)
    and judge. She was appointed to the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1978. She was the first woman appointed to that court. Ellen Ash was born in Berlin on March...
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    December 30, 2016, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4–3 to reinstate Skakel's conviction. The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed itself on May 4, 2018...
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    The Connecticut Superior Court is the state trial court of general jurisdiction. It hears all matters other than those of original jurisdiction of the...
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    renamed the Connecticut Supreme Court), the Kentucky Court of Errors (renamed the Kentucky Supreme Court), and the Mississippi High Court of Errors and...
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  • David C. Sanford (category Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court)
    1864) was a Connecticut lawyer who served as a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1854 to 1864. Born in New Milford, Connecticut, Sanford's...
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    Western tradition. Thus, Connecticut earned its nickname of The Constitution State. The document is notable as it assigns supreme authority in the colony...
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    Maria Araújo Kahn (category Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court)
    United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She previously served as an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 2017 to 2023...
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  • Connecticut Supreme Court Lubbie Harper Jr. – Associate Justice: Connecticut Supreme Court (2011–12) Wesley W. Horton – Connecticut appellate court lawyer...
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  • Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940), is a landmark court decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment's federal...
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  • Joan K. Alexander (category Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court)
    1962) is an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. She served as a judge the Connecticut Appellate Court from 2020 to 2022. Alexander earned...
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    County court from 1776 to 1804, and served on the governor's council from 1780 to 1803. Simultaneously, he was a judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of...
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  • 1976 United States Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia until Connecticut repealed capital punishment in 2012, Connecticut had only executed one...
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  • Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319 (1937), was a United States Supreme Court case concerning the incorporation of the Fifth Amendment protection against...
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    subpoena power under Connecticut General Statutes §2-46. Recent decisions by the Connecticut Supreme Court, the state supreme court, have clarified and...
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    was dismissed in superior court and was appealed to the Connecticut Supreme Court. In March 2019, the Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated the wrongful...
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    death. Their sentences were vacated in August 2015, when the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional and retroactively...
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    Boddie v. Connecticut, 401 U.S. 371 (1971), was a case before the United States Supreme Court. A class action was formed representing female welfare recipients...
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    Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (1992-2011) Christine E. Keller, 1977, Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court Edward Kennedy, Jr., 1997...
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  • James E. Murphy (category Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court)
    James E. Murphy (1897-1986) was a Supreme Court justice in Connecticut. Murphy served in the US Army during World War I and following it, attended Notre...
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  • courts of Connecticut Connecticut Supreme Court Connecticut Appellate Court Connecticut Superior Court (13 districts) Connecticut Probate Courts (54 districts)...
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