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Abrams v. United States CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Nov. 10, 1919

Abrams v. United States The defendants in this case had distributed pamphlets in Yiddish and English criticizing the Wilson administration for sending U.S. troops to Russia in the summer of 1918. The . . .

Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Feb. 17, 1936

Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was one of the most ambitious and most successful of all the New Deal's experimental programs. Covering a seven-state area . . .

Buchanan v. Warley CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Nov. 5, 1917

Buchanan v. Warley The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) devised a case to test residential segregation ordinances in Louisville, Kentucky. The law, like many through . . .

Carter v. Carter Coal Co. CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Mar. 18, 1936

Carter v. Carter Coal Co. In response to Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935), Congress tried to salvage part of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) with the Guffy-Sny . . .

Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Apr. 25, 1938

Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins The Judiciary Act of 1789 ordered federal courts to follow the decisional rules of the states in which they were located. In Swift v. Tyson, 41 U.S. 1 (1842), the Court . . .

Gitlow v. New York CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Jun. 8, 1925

Gitlow v. New York Gitlow posed a challenge to New York's 1902 Criminal Anarchy Act. Benjamin Gitlow, a leading figure in the American Communist Party, was convicted for publishing a radical newspape . . .

Hammer v. Dagenhart CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Jun. 3, 1918

Hammer v. Dagenhart The Child Labor Act of 1916 was the response to reformers calling for a federal statute to ensure minimal child labor standards nationwide. Congress relied on its interstate comme . . .

Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Jun. 8, 1934

Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell In 1933, during the Great Depression, Minnesota farmers, like farmers across the country, were losing their property through foreclosure. The state res . . .

Missouri v. Holland CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Apr. 19, 1920

Missouri v. Holland A 1916 treaty between Great Britain and the United States for the protection of migratory birds called for closed hunting seasons on several species. Congress enacted these provis . . .

Myers v. United States CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Oct. 25, 1926

Myers v. United States In order to prevent President Johnson from removing any government officials appointed by President Lincoln from office, Congress in 1876 passed the Tenure in Office Act. This . . .

National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Apr. 12, 1937

National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Through Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935), the Court invalidated Section 7(a) of the National Industri . . .

Palko v. Connecticut CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Dec. 6, 1937

Palko v. Connecticut When Justice Cardozo delivered the opinion in Palko, one of the crucial cases in civil liberties history, he defined much of the judicial debate on the question of incorporation . . .

Pierce v. Society of Sisters CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Jun. 1, 1925

Pierce v. Society of Sisters In 1922 Oregon voters approved an initiative requiring parents to send all children between the ages of eight and sixteen to public schools. The initiative developed from . . .

Powell v. Alabama CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Nov. 7, 1932

Powell v. Alabama Also known as the Scottsboro Case . . .

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States CQP Key Case, Case Summary
May 27, 1935

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States The centerpiece of the New Deal's economic program, as well as its most controversial measure, was the National Industrial Recovery Act, (NIRA) the constituti . . .

Schenck v. United States CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Mar. 3, 1919

Schenck v. United States Ironically, the war to make the world safe for democracy triggered the worst invasion of civil liberties at home in the nation's history up to that point. The government obvi . . .

United States v. Butler CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Jan. 6, 1936

United States v. Butler The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 (AAA) was the pivotal measure in the New Deal effort to aid agriculture during the Great Depression. It was based on the notion of R . . .

United States v. Carolene Products Co. CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Apr. 25, 1938

United States v. Carolene Products Co. This relatively insignificant case is remembered primarily for a footnote that launched a constitutional revolution. The case concerned a federal law prohibitin . . .

United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Dec. 21, 1936

United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. In a joint resolution, Congress authorized the president to embargo arms shipments to countries at war in the Chaco region of South America. Using this au . . .

Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Nov. 22, 1926

Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. No case better illustrates the conflicted rulings of the Taft Court than one involving zoning for land use. Among conservatives, property enjoyed a near s . . .

West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Mar. 29, 1937

West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish In the midst of the congressional debate over President Roosevelt's Court-packing plan, in which he tried to secure legislation allowing him to name up to six addition . . .

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