Plessy v. Ferguson
The decision upheld segregation laws.
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The decision upheld segregation laws.
Companion case to Roe v. Wade addressing abortion rights.
The decision upheld slavery laws.
A New York state court upheld a New York City Health Department emergency order requiring vaccination against measles in five zip codes.
The Supreme Court denied certiorari in a Religious Freedom Restoration Act case where nuns filed suit in the wrong venue and ignored the required dispute…
Evidence of a defendant's abstract beliefs cannot be admitted at sentencing if it has no relevance beyond inflaming jurors.
The Court held that the Alien Contract Labor Act of 1887 did not prohibit the hiring of a foreign minister, as the statutory language did…