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Created: Saturday, February 23, 2008 | Total records: 219
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id	Plaintiff	v	Defendant	Vol.	Series	Page	Altern.	Year	Synopsis
51	Paul	v.	Virginia	75	U.S.	168	8 Wa.	1869	Insurance transactions carried on across state lines not interstate commerce. Later overturned by United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Assn., 322 U.S. 533 (1944).
52	Veazie Bank	v.	Fenno	75	U.S.	533	8 Wa.	1869	Congress may restrain the circulation of notes not issued under its own authority.
53	Knox	v.	Lee (Legal Tender Cases)	79	U.S.	457	12 Wa.	1871	Congress had authority to issue treasury notes and to make them legal tender in satisfaction of antecedent debts.
54	U.S.	v.	Klein	80	U.S.	128	13 Wa.	1872	President has authority under the pardon power to grant amnesty for completed offenses against the United States not yet indicted.
55	Reading Railroad	v.	Pennsylvania (State Freight Tax Case)	82	U.S.	232	15 Wa.	1873	First case to strike down a state law solely on commerce clause grounds.
56	Slaughterhouse Cases			83	U.S.	36		1873	Introduced notion of substantive due process and practice of selective incorporation of federal rights under the 14th Amendment.
57	Ex parte		Robinson	86	U.S.	505	19 Wa.	1874	“The power to punish for contempts is inherent in all courts."
58	New Orleans	v.	The Steamship Co.	87	U.S.	387	20 Wa.	1874	The Constitution does not follow the advancing troops into conquered territory. Persons in such territory held entirely beyond the reach of constitutional limitations and subject to the laws of war as interpreted and applied by the Congress and the President.
59	U.S.	v.	Fox	95	U.S.	670		1877	Reversed conviction for bankruptcy fraud, but in dictum affirmed Congress has power to create, define, and punish crimes and offenses whenever necessary to effectuate the objects of the Federal Government, without an express delegation of penal power, under necessary and proper clause, thereby abandoning doctrine of 1798 that Congress had no such implied penal powers.
60	U.S.	v.	Hall	98	U.S.	343		1878	Congress may prohibit embezzlement of pension payments, enforceable by deprivation of liberty.
61	Tennessee	v.	Davis	100	U.S.	257		1880	Sustained removal from a state to a federal court of a criminal prosecution against a federal officer for acts done under color of federal law.
62	U.S.	v.	Lee	106	U.S.	196		1882	Qualified earlier holdings to the effect that where a judgment affected the property of the United States the suit was in effect against the United States, by ruling that title to property was not legally vested in the United States but was being held illegally under an unlawful order of the President.
63	Julliard	v.	Greenman (Legal Tender Cases)	110	U.S.	421		1884	Congress may authorize the issuance of treasury notes impressed with the quality of legal tender in payment of private debts.
64	Hurtado	v.	California	110	U.S.	516		1884	States not required to indict by grand jury.
65	Ex parte		Yarbrough	110	U.S.	651		1884	Congress has implied power to punish conspiracy to injure a citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
66	Head Money Cases			112	U.S.	580		1884	Treaties do not prevail over later acts of Congress in conflict with them, but are superseded by principle of leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant, and act of Congress may rescind a treaty.
67	U.S.	v.	Kagama	118	U.S.	375		1886	Rejecting the commerce clause as a basis for congressional enactment of a system of criminal laws for Indians living on reservations, the Court nevertheless sustained the act on the ground that the Federal Government had the obligation and thus the power to protect a weak and dependent people.
68	Santa Clara County	v.	Southern Pacific R.R.	118	U.S.	394		1886	Taken as precedent that a corporation is a "person" under 14th Amendment, but that expressed only in headnote, not in opinion.
69	U.S.	v.	Pacific Railroad	120	U.S.	227		1887	Held that the United States was not responsible for the injury or destruction of private property by military operations, but claims for property of loyal citizens taken for the use of the national forces were compensable.
70	Baldwin	v.	Franks	120	U.S.	678		1887	Congress may penalize private acts of violence within a state if such act violates the rights of an alien under a treaty.
71	Callan	v.	Wilson	127	U.S.	540		1888	Residents of federal enclave under Art. I Sec. 8 cl. 17 are entitled to all the guarantees of the United States Constitution including the privilege of trial by jury.
72	Kidd	v.	Pearson	128	U.S.	1		1888	Manufacturing, even when the product would move in interstate commerce, is not reachable under the commerce clause. Later overturned by NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., 301 U.S. 1 (1937).
73	Hans	v.	Louisiana	134	U.S.	1		1890	Held Eleventh Amendment creates sovereign immunity of states against suits by their own citizens, was well as by citizens of other states.
74	In re	v.	Ross	140	U.S.	453		1891	Constitution made for, and is binding only in, the United States of America.
75	U.S.	v.	Texas	143	U.S.	621		1892	Federal courts have jurisdiction, as a federal question, in case of United States against a state, even though the United States not an enumerated party in Article III.