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Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority 

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 . . .

Carter v. Carter Coal Co. 

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 

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 . . .

Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell 

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 . . .

National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation 

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 

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 . . .

Powell v. Alabama 

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

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States 

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 . . .

Thornhill v. Alabama 

Thornhill v. Alabama Byron Thornhill was arrested while picketing Brown Wood Preserving Company and convicted for violating an Alabama statute that prohibited loitering or picketing around places of . . .

United States v. Butler 

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. 

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. 

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 . . .

Weeks v. United States 

Weeks v. United States Freemont Weeks, an employee of an express company at the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, was searched and arrested by state officers and a federal marshal without a war . . .

West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish 

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 . . .