Washington v. Texas
Jackie Washington tried to call his co-defendant as a witness, but was blocked by Texas courts. The Supreme Court reasoned ...
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. ...
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark
Since the 1990s, controversy has arisen over the longstanding practice of granting automatic citizenship to U.S. -born children of illegal ...
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United States v. Washington
The Boldt Decision reaffirmed the reserved right of American Indian tribes in the State of Washington to act alongside the ...
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United States v. Progressive, Inc.
United States of America v. Progressive, Inc., Erwin Knoll, Samuel Day, Jr., and Howard Morland, 467 F. Supp. 990, was ...
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United States v. Lara
United States v. Lara, 541 U.S. 193, was a United States Supreme Court landmark case which held that both the ...
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United States v. Kagama
Kagama, a Yurok Native American accused of murder, was selected as a test case by the Department of Justice to ...
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Toa Payoh ritual murders
The Toa Payoh ritual murders took place in Singapore in 1981. The children had been killed, purportedly as blood sacrifices ...
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Tichborne case
The Tichborne case was a legal cause célèbre that captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s. It concerned the ...
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Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders
Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in New York City from 1949 to 1958 were the result of US ...
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