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Today in Supreme Court History
with Dan Schiavetta, Jr.
a.k.a. “captcrisis”
Today in Supreme Court History: March 1
Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303 (decided March 1, 1880): Fourteenth Amendment violated by state statute restricting jury duty to...

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Mar 5, 20243 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 29
What follows is every case decided on February 29, 1892. This is in honor of my wife, born on February 29. Page numbers are to 143 U.S....

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Feb 29, 20243 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 28
Johnson v. M’Intosh, 21 U.S. 543 (decided February 28, 1823): Why do law professors like to play with the heads of 1L’s? In Property...

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Feb 28, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 27
Washington v. Harper, 494 U.S. 210 (decided February 27, 1990): mentally ill prisoner could be treated with psychotropic drugs against...

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Feb 27, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 26
Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee v. Sulyma, 589 U.S. — (decided February 26, 2020): 3-year statute of limitations for ERISA suit...

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Feb 26, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 25
North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC, 574 U.S. 494 (decided February 25, 2015): upholding FTC ruling that North Carolina...

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Feb 25, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 24
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (decided February 24, 1969): being in school does not restrict...

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Feb 24, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 23
Johnson v. California, 543 U.S. 499 (decided February 23, 2005): unwritten state policy of segregating new double-celled prisoners by...

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Feb 24, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 22
Joshua DeShaney v. Winnebago County, 489 U.S. 189 (decided February 22, 1989): Due Process protection does not apply to actions of...

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Feb 22, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 21
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers, 583 U.S. 149 (decided February 21, 2018): whistleblower statute did not allow damages for...

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Feb 21, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 20
Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (decided February 20, 1905): upholding state statute allowing local boards of health to require...

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Feb 21, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 19
Ogden v. Saunders, 25 U.S. 213 (decided February 19, 1827): states may legislate to any extent not prohibited by the Constitution and not...

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Feb 19, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 18
Bibles v. Oregon Natural Desert Ass’n, 519 U.S. 355 (decided February 18, 1997): Freedom of Information Act did not entitle environmental...

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Feb 18, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 17
Brown v. Mississippi, 297 U.S. 278 (decided February 17, 1936): confessions “extorted by brutality and violence” violated Due Process...

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Feb 17, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 16
Barron v. City of Baltimore, 32 U.S. 243 (decided February 16, 1833): Bill of Rights (here, the Fifth Amendment takings clause) applies...

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Feb 16, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 15
Oakes v. Mase, 165 U.S. 363 (decided February 15, 1897): vacating judgment for engineer’s estate because negligence causing his death (a...

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Feb 15, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 14
Reynolds v. Atlantic Coast Line R.R. Co., 336 U.S. 207 (decided February 14, 1949): failure to clear sugar cane plants from railbed (this...

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Feb 14, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 13
Strawbridge v. Curtiss, 7 U.S. 267 (decided February 13, 1806): Out of this evil seed grew upwards of two hundred years of ridiculously...

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Feb 13, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 12
Chambers v. Florida, 309 U.S. 227 (decided February 12, 1940): black suspects (robbery of white man) kept in jail for six days, denied...

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Feb 12, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: February 11
Jaffree v. Board of School Comm’rs of Mobile County, 459 U.S. 1314 (decided February 11, 1983): staying District Court order allowing...

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Feb 11, 20241 min read
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