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| x Baker v. Vermont |
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Baker v. Vermont, 744 A.2d 864 (Vt. 1999), was handed down on December 20, 1999 by the Vermont Supreme Court. The decision represented one of the first high-level judicial affirmations of same-sex couples' right to treatment equivalent to that of...
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| x Roe v. Wade |
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Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), a landmark case decided by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion, is one of the most controversial and politically significant cases in U.S. Supreme Court history.
The Court held that a woman may...
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| x Plessy v. Ferguson |
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation even in public accommodations (particularly railroads), under the...
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| x Fletcher v. Peck |
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Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. 87 (1810), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision. It was one of the first cases in which the Supreme Court ruled a state law unconstitutional. In the course of the westward push for the control of Indian lands...
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| x McCulloch v. Maryland |
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McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes...
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| x Cohens v. Virginia |
Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. 264 (1821), was a United States Supreme Court decision most noted for John Marshall and the Court's assertion of its power to review state supreme court decisions in criminal law matters when they claim their...
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| x Adair v. United States |
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Adair v. United States, 208 U.S. 161 (1908), was a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld "yellow-dog" contracts that forbade workers from joining trade unions.
William Adair, an official with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, had fired...
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| x Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority |
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Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528 (1985), is a United States Supreme Court decision that holds that the Congress has the power under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to extend the Fair Labor Standards Act,...
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| x Guinn v. United States |
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Guinn v. United States, 238 U.S. 347 (1915), was an important United States Supreme Court decision that dealt with provisions of state constitutions that set qualifications for voters. It found grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests to be...
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| x Buchanan v. Warley |
Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (1917) was a unanimous United States Supreme Court decision addressing racial segregation in residential areas. The Court held that a Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring residential segregation based on race...
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| x Miranda v. Arizona |
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Miranda v. Arizona (consolidated with Westover v. United States, Vignera v. New York, and California v. Stewart), 384 U.S. 436 (1966), was a landmark 5-4 decision of the United States Supreme Court which was argued February 28–March 1, 1966 and...
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| x Schenck v. United States |
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Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), was a United States Supreme Court decision which concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I. Charles Schenck was the Secretary of...
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| x West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish |
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West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the constitutionality of minimum wage legislation enacted by the State of Washington, overturning an earlier decision in Adkins...
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| x Muller v. Oregon |
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Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412 (1908), was a landmark decision in United States Supreme Court history, as it relates to both sex discrimination and usage and labor laws. The case upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as...
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| x Miller v. California |
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Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973) was an important United States Supreme Court case involving what constitutes unprotected obscenity for First Amendment purposes. The decision reiterated that obscenity was not protected by the First Amendment...
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| x New York Times Co. v. United States |
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New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), was a United States Supreme Court per curiam decision. The ruling made it possible for the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers to publish the then-classified Pentagon Papers without...
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| x United States v. Shabani |
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United States v. Shabani, 513 U.S. 10 (1994), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States regarding conspiracy liability under federal statutes. The Court ruled: "...Congress intended to adopt the common law definition of conspiracy,...
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| x Ford v. Quebec |
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Ford v. Quebec (Attorney General), [1988] 2 S.C.R. 712 is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision in which the Court struck down part of the Charter of the French Language, commonly known as Bill 101. This law had restricted the use of...
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| x Exxon Corp. v. Exxon Insurance Consultants International Ltd |
Exxon Corp. v. Exxon Insurance Consultants International Ltd [1982] Ch. 119 is a leading decision in English law on the existence of copyright in a name alone and the infringement of a trade mark. The Court found that typically there is no copyright...
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| x Gratz v. Bollinger |
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Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244 (2003), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the University of Michigan undergraduate affirmative action admissions policy. In a 6–3 decision announced on June 23, 2003, the Supreme Court ruled the...
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| x Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services |
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Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, 523 U.S. 75 (1998), was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. The case arose out of a suit for sex discrimination by a male oil-rig worker, who claimed that he was repeatedly subjected to sexual...
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| x Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States |
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A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated regulations of the poultry industry according to the nondelegation doctrine and as an invalid use of...
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| x Bowers v. Hardwick |
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Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), was a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law that criminalized oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults. Seventeen years later the Supreme...
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| x Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission |
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Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission, 447 U.S. 530 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court decision addressing the free speech rights of public utility corporations under the First Amendment, as applied through the Fourteenth. The...
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| x Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation |
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Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726 (1978) is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision that defined the power of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over "indecent" material as applied to...
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| x North Carolina v. Mann |
North Carolina v. Mann, 13 N.C. 263 (N.C. 1830) (or State v. Mann, as it would have been identified within North Carolina), is a decision in which the Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled that slaveowners had absolute authority over their slaves...
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| x United States v. Morrison |
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United States v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000) is a United States Supreme Court decision which held that parts of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 were unconstitutional because they exceeded congressional power under the Commerce Clause and...
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| x Shelley v. Kraemer |
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Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1, (1948), is a United States Supreme Court case.
In 1945, a black family by the name of Shelley purchased a house in St. Louis, Missouri. At the time of purchase, they were unaware that a restrictive covenant had been...
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| x Furman v. Georgia |
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Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972) was a United States Supreme Court decision that ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty. The Court consolidated Jackson v. Georgia and Branch v. Texas with...
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| x Myers v. United States |
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Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926), was a United States Supreme Court decision ruling that the President has the exclusive power to remove executive branch officials, and does not need the approval of the Senate or any other legislative body...
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| x Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus |
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Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus, 210 U.S. 339 (1908), was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the scope of rights accorded owners of a copyright. This was a case of first impression concerning whether the copyright laws permit an owner to...
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| x Bauer & Cie. v. O'Donnell |
Bauer & Cie. v. O'Donnell, 229 U.S. 1 (1913) was a United States Supreme Court decision involving licensing terms on patented works.
Bauer & Cie sold Sanatogen, a patented water soluble albuminoid, with this notice on each bag:
O'Donnell purchased...
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| x Whitney v. California |
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Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927), was a United States Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of an individual who had engaged in speech that raised a threat to society.
Anita Whitney, a member of a distinguished California family,...
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| x Near v. Minnesota |
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Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931), was a United States Supreme Court decision that recognized the freedom of the press from prior restraints on publication, a principle that was applied to free speech generally in subsequent jurisprudence. The...
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| x United States v. Cruikshank |
United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875) was an important United States Supreme Court decision in United States constitutional law, one of the earliest to deal with the application of the Bill of Rights to state governments following the...
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| x Boynton v. Virginia |
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Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454 (1960) was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The case overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was "whites...
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| x Doe v. Chao |
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Doe v. Chao, 540 U.S. 614 (2004), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court that interpreted the statutory damages provision of the Privacy Act of 1974.
Prior to the case, lower federal courts had split over whether plaintiffs whose rights...
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| x Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District |
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Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969) was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools. The Tinker test is still used by courts...
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| x Engblom v. Carey |
Engblom v. Carey, 677 F.2d 957, was a 1982 court case decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. It is the only significant court decision based on a direct challenge under the Third Amendment to the United States...
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| x Hammer v. Dagenhart |
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Hammer v. Dagenhart, 247 U.S. 251 (1918), was a United States Supreme Court decision involving the power of Congress to enact child labor laws.
Public sentiment turned against what was perceived as increasingly intolerable child labor conditions....
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| x Texas v. Johnson |
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Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated prohibitions on desecrating the American flag in force in 48 of the 50 states. Justice William Brennan wrote for a five-justice majority...
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| x Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier |
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Hazelwood School District et al. v. Kuhlmeier et al., 484 U.S. 260 (1988) was a United States Supreme Court decision which held that public school curricular student newspapers that have not been established as forums for student expression are...
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| x Webster v. Reproductive Health Services |
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Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989), was a United States Supreme Court decision on July 3, 1989 upholding a Missouri law that imposed restrictions on the use of state funds, facilities and employees in performing, assisting...
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| x Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. |
Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., 1995 WL 323710 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1995), was a controversial 1995 U.S. New York Supreme Court decision which found that online service providers could be held liable for the speech of their users.
In...
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| x Cubby v. CompuServe |
Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc. was a 1991 court decision in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York which held that Internet service providers were subject to traditional defamation law for their hosted content. The...
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| x Cherokee Nation v. Georgia |
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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. 1 (1831), was a United States Supreme Court case.
On December 20, 1828, the state of Georgia, fearful that the United States would not effect (as a matter of Federal policy) the removal of the Cherokee Nation...
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| x United States v. Wong Kim Ark |
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), was a United States Supreme Court decision that set an important legal precedent about what determines United States citizenship.
Wong Kim Ark (黃金德; Toisanese: wong11 gim33 'ak3; Cantonese: wong4...
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| x Rasul v. Bush |
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Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2004), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that the U.S. court system has the authority to decide whether foreign nationals (non-U.S. citizens) held in Guantanamo Bay were wrongfully...
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| x United States v. Dominguez Benitez |
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With its decision in United States v. Dominguez Benitez, 542 U.S. 74 (2004), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that, in a criminal proceeding in federal court, a defendant who does not alert the district court to a possible violation of...
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| x Hamdi v. Rumsfeld |
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Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004) was a U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing the dismissal of a habeas corpus petition brought on behalf of Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen being detained indefinitely as an "illegal enemy combatant". The Court...
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| x Jacobellis v. Ohio |
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Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), was a United States Supreme Court decision handed down in 1964 involving whether the state of Ohio could, consistent with the First Amendment, ban the showing of a French film called The Lovers (Les Amants)...
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| x Terry v. Ohio |
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Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and...
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| x Smith v. Allwright |
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Smith v. Allwright , 321 U.S. 649 (1944), was an important decision of the United States Supreme Court with regard to voting rights and, by extension, racial desegregation. It overturned the Democratic Party's use of all-white primaries in Texas,...
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| x Millar v. Taylor |
Millar v. Taylor, 4 Burr. 2303, 98 Eng. Rep. 201 (K.B. 1769), is an English court decision that held there is a perpetual common law copyright and that no works ever enter the public domain. Following the passage of the first copyright law, the...
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| x Coleman v. Miller |
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Coleman v. Miller, 307 U.S. 433 (1939) is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which clarified that if the Congress of the United States—when proposing for ratification an amendment to the United States Constitution pursuant to...
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| x Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. |
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Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 162 N.E. 99 (N.Y. 1928), was a decision by the New York Court of Appeals (the highest state court in the New York) written by Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo, a leading figure in the development of American common...
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| x Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. |
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Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999), was a decision by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which ruled that exact photographic copies of public domain images could not be...
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| x R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. |
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R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd., [1985] 1 S.C.R. 295, is a landmark decision by Supreme Court of Canada where the Court struck down the Lord's Day Act for violating section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This case had many firsts in...
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| x R. v. Morgentaler |
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R. v. Morgentaler [1988] 1 S.C.R. 30 was a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada wherein the abortion provision in the Criminal Code of Canada was found to be unconstitutional, as it violated a woman's right under section 7 of the Canadian Charter...
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| x Branzburg v. Hayes |
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Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665 (1972), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision invalidating the use of the First Amendment as a defense for reporters summoned to testify before a grand jury. The case was argued February 23, 1972 and...
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