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Today in Supreme Court History: December 4

Dec 4, 2025
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New Jersey v. City of New York, 290 U.S. 237 (decided December 4, 1933): imposes penalties against NYC for not complying with earlier order prohibiting dumping garbage into ocean next to New Jersey


Arkansas Game and Fish Comm’n v. United States, 568 U.S. 23 (decided December 4, 2012): flooding by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (water released from dam) which destroyed state’s downstream timber crop is a “taking” even if only temporary


Logan v. United States, 552 U.S. 23 (decided December 4, 2007): exemption to sentence aggravation under Armed Career Criminal Act for those who have “had civil rights restored” did not apply to defendant who had otherwise applicable prior convictions but who had never had civil rights taken away

 
 
 

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