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Today in Supreme Court History
with Dan Schiavetta, Jr.
a.k.a. “captcrisis”
Today in Supreme Court History: January 26
Crawford v. Nashville, 555 U.S. 271 (decided January 26, 2009): Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids retaliation against an...

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Jan 26, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 25
Montgomery v. Louisiana, 577 U.S. 190 (decided January 25, 2016): Miller v. Alabama, 2012, declaring that life without parole for...

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Jan 25, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 24
Springer v. United States, 102 U.S. 586 (decided January 24, 1881): upholding federal income tax because it was not a “direct tax” such...

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Jan 24, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 23
United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (decided January 23, 2012): attaching a GPS device to suspected drug dealer’s vehicle (actually his...

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Jan 23, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 22
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (decided January 22, 1973): balancing interests of the state vs. privacy interest of mother, invalidates...

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Jan 23, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 21
Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm’n, 558 U.S. 310 (decided January 21, 2010): Court disallows on First Amendment grounds any...

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Jan 21, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 20
Nashville Milk Co. v. Carnation Co., 355 U.S. 373 (decided January 20, 1958): Robinson-Patman Act (prohibiting underselling to destroy...

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Jan 20, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 19
Patsone v. Pennsylvania, 232 U.S. 138 (decided January 19, 1914): upholds statute prohibiting foreign born non-citizens from killing wild...

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Jan 20, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 18
Mistretta v. United States, 488 U.S. 361 (decided January 18, 1989): The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 created the Sentencing Commission...

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Jan 18, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 17
Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v. Board of Equalization of California, 493 U.S. 378 (decided January 17, 1990): generally applicable sales and...

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Jan 18, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 16
Garrity v. New Jersey, 385 U.S. 493 (decided January 16, 1967): police officers being questioned in connection with investigation of...

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Jan 18, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 15
Berry v. Davis, 242 U.S. 468 (decided January 15, 1917): An Iowa statute authorized vasectomies on “idiots, feeble-minded, drunkards,...

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Jan 15, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 14
Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471 (decided January 14, 1963): the leading “fruit of the poisonous tree” case, where statements made...

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Jan 14, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 13
One, Inc. v. Olsesen, 355 U.S. 371 (decided January 13, 1958): Citing its recent analysis in Roth v. United States, Court reverses...

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Jan 13, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 12
United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (decided January 12, 2005): invalidating part of Federal Sentencing Act that empowers judge to find...

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Jan 12, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 11
Dunn v. United States, 284 U.S. 390 (decided January 11, 1932): notable as the last opinion by Holmes, which he read from the bench (in a...

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Jan 12, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 10
United States v. Georgia, 546 U.S. 151 (decided January 10, 2006): protections of ADA extend to those in state prison (prisoner could not...

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Jan 12, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 9
FW/PBS, Inc. v. City of Dallas, 493 U.S. 215 (decided January 9, 1990): “adult” businesses had Free Speech right to contest zoning...

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Jan 9, 20241 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 8
The Paquete Habana, 175 U.S. 677 (decided January 8, 1900): Fishing vessel was not a “prize of war” (its crew did not even know there was...

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Jan 9, 20242 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: January 7
Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (decided January 7, 1946): Alabama statute requiring people to leave private property when asked violates...

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Jan 7, 20241 min read
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