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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
151	Associated Press	v.	U.S.	326	U.S.	1		1945	The gathering of news by a press association and its transmission to client newspapers are interstate commerce.
152	In re		Yamashita	327	U.S.	1		1946	Sustained prosecution of foreign officer for "war crimes", and general jurisdiction of military outside of U.S. territory, without constitutional restrictions, such as against ex post facto laws.
153	Duncan	v.	Kahanamoku	327	U.S.	304		1946	Found that military governor not authorized to replace civilian courts with military tribunals in Hawaii, given the facts of the case.
154	U.S.	v.	Lovett	328	U.S.	303		1946	Legislative denial of compensation based on political views is a prohibited bill of attainder.
155	American Light & Power Co.	v.	SEC	329	U.S.	90		1946	Upheld delegation of authority to Securities and Exchange Commission to prevent unfair or inequitable distribution of voting power among security holders.
156	Everson	v.	Board of Education	330	U.S.	1		1947	Incorporated "establishment clause" of the First Amendment to the states under the 14th Amendment.
157	Land	v.	Dollar	330	U.S.	731		1947	The fact that defendants claim property in dispute in a case as officers or agents of the United States does not make the action one against the United States until it is determined that they were acting within the scope of their lawful authority.
158	Rescue Army	v.	Municipal Court	331	U.S.	549		1947	Asserted policy that Court will decide constitutional issues only if "strict necessity" compels it to do so, as narrowly as possible to reach a decision.
159	Adamson	v.	California	332	U.S.	46		1947	Decision of an accused not to testify may be used against him in a state criminal trial.
160	Woods	v.	Cloyd W. Miller Co.	333	U.S.	138		1948	Emergency war powers exercised domestically may continue for a while after the end of hostilities, but may not swallow up all other powers of Congress or largely obliterate the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
161	Lichter	v.	U.S.	334	U.S.	742		1948	“[C]onstitutional power implies a power of delegation of authority under it sufficient to effect its purposes."
162	Kovacs	v.	Cooper	336	U.S.	77		1949	Statute alleged to infringe a right is to be presumed to be unconstitutional until proved otherwise. Narrowed Ogden v. Saunders, 25 U.S. 213.
163	Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.	v.	Sawyer (Steel seizure case)	343	U.S.	579		1952	Held seizure of steel industry by President to end a strike not to be within his "inherent powers" and to be void. Restricted scope of Myers v. U.S. 272 U.S. 52 (1926)
164	Brown	v.	Allen	344	U.S.	443		1953	On habeas corpus petition, federal courts may review constitutional questions, may ignore state judgments, may reconsider facts as well as law, and may conduct evidentiary hearings.
165	Brown	v.	Board of Education of Topeka	347	U.S.	483		1954	Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, doctrine of separate but equal, held separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
166	Reid	v.	Covert	354	U.S.	1		1957	Voided court-martial convictions of civilians for capital offenses committed outside territorial jurisdiction of United States, held that court-martial jurisdiction did not extend to civilians. Later cases extended doctrine to non-capital offenses. Treaties do not confer powers not authorized by Constitution, and in particular, over civilians outside U.S. territory.
167	Perez	v.	Brownell	356	U.S.	44		1958	Sustained involuntary expatriation for a variety of causes prescribed by statute, such as voting in foreign election.
168	Mapp	v.	Ohio	367	U.S.	643		1961	Reversed state conviction based on evidence admitted without a search warrant, and held such evidence violated the Fourth Amendment, incorporated under the 14th Amendment.
169	Baker	v.	Carr	369	U.S.	186		1962	Federal courts have jurisdiction to review state legislative districting under equal protection principle. Narrowed political question doctrine to apply mainly to nonjusticiabiity under the separation of powers at the federal level.
170	Gideon	v.	Wainwright	372	U.S.	335		1963	State required to provide defense counsel to accused unable to hire his own.
171	New York Times Co.	v.	Sullivan	376	U.S.	254		1964	A State cannot, under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, award damages to a public official for defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves "actual malice"--that the statement was made with knowledge of its falsity or with reckless disregard of whether it was true or false.
172	Heart of Atlanta Motel	v.	U.S.	379	U.S.	241		1964	Upheld 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations as necessary to protect interstate travelers from harm, to prevent such travelers from being deterred in the exercise of interstate traveling, and to prevent them from being burdened.
173	Katzenbach	v.	McClung	379	U.S.	294		1964	Regulation of a purely intrastate activity may be premised on the presence of some object that will or has crossed state lines.
174	Lamont	v.	Postmaster General	381	U.S.	301		1965	Struck down a statute authorizing the Post Office to detain mail it determined to be "communist political propaganda" and to forward it to the addressee only if he notified the Post Office he wanted to see it. Noting that Congress was not bound to operate a postal service, the Court observed that while it did, it was bound to observe constitutional guarantees. Note that this was the first congressional statute ever voided as in conflict with the First Amendment.
175	U.S.	v.	Brown	381	U.S.	437		1965	Held void as a bill of attainder a statute making it a crime for a member of the Communist Party to serve as an officer or as an employee of a labor union. The prohibition embodied in bill of attainder clauses not to be strictly and narrowly construed in the context of traditional forms but is to be interpreted in accordance with the designs of the framers so as to preclude trial by legislature.