• of cases were tried before the Supreme Court of the United States during the period of the American Civil War. These cases focused on wartime civil liberties...
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  • article: Civil Rights Cases The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), were a group of five landmark cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States...
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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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  • Prize Cases, 67 U.S. (2 Black) 635 (1863), was a case argued before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1862 during the American Civil War. The Supreme...
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  • Numerous cases involving Jehovah's Witnesses have been heard by Supreme Courts throughout the world. The cases revolve around three main subjects: the practice...
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  • decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protected a right to have an abortion. The decision...
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  • particularly if the Supreme Court chooses not to review the case. Although many cases from state supreme courts are significant in developing the law of that state...
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    Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida...
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  • The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the American Civil War: American Civil Warcivil war in the United States of...
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  • This is a List about cases related to LGBT issues that were brought before the United States Supreme Court. One, Inc. v. Olesen, 355 U.S. 371 (1958),...
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    federal courts and state court cases involving issues of U.S. federal law, plus original jurisdiction over a small range of cases. The nine Supreme Court justices...
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    The Supreme Court of Pakistan (Urdu: عدالتِ عظمیٰ پاکستان; Adālat-e-Uzma Pākistān) is the apex court in the judicial hierarchy of the Islamic Republic...
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    The Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China (SPC) is the highest court of the People's Republic of China. It hears appeals of cases from...
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  • The Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1873), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision which ruled that the Privileges or Immunities Clause...
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    changes in the state's constitution to give the Supreme Court exclusive jurisdiction – the sole legal power to hear – over five types of cases on appeal...
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    The Supreme Court of Mauritius is the highest court of Mauritius and the final court of appeal in the Mauritian judicial system. It was established in...
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    highest court in the Philippines. The Supreme Court was established by the Second Philippine Commission on June 11, 1901 through the enactment of its Act...
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    criminal and civil cases in United States v. Bajakajian. ... Greenhouse, Linda (June 23, 1998). "Supreme Court Roundup; Justices Narrow the Uses of Forfeiture"...
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    The Supreme Court of Virginia is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It primarily hears direct appeals in civil cases from the trial-level...
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  • where the civil courts were open and operational. This was one of the key Supreme Court Cases of the American Civil War that dealt with wartime civil liberties...
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    U.S. states that declared secession and warred against the United States during the American Civil War. The states were South Carolina, Mississippi,...
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  • The Insular Cases are a series of opinions by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1901 about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American...
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    The Supreme Court of Mississippi is the highest court in the state of Mississippi. It was established in 1818 per the terms of the first constitution of...
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  • of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Roberts Court, the tenure of Chief Justice John Roberts from September 29, 2005 to the...
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  • landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent...
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    The origins of the American Civil War are rooted in the desire of the Southern states to preserve the institution of slavery. Historians in the 21st century...
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    The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North")...
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  • Lawsuit (redirect from Civil court case)
    by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law. The archaic term "suit in law"...
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    Hernandez v. Texas (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Warren Court)
    landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period...
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    The demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States encompass the gender, ethnicity, and religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the...
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