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Documentaries covering landmark points on the timeline of Supreme Court history, including: FDR’s court packing controversy, the contested 1876 election + John Marshall & Marbury v. Madison. EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
The Burger Court was the period in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1969 to 1986, when Warren E. Burger served as Chief Justice of the United States. Burger succeeded Earl Warren as Chief Justice after the latter's retirement, and served as Chief Justice until his retirement, at which point William Rehnquist was ...
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Miller v. California. 413 U.S. 15 (1973) Freedom of speech, Miller test for obscenity. United States v. 12 200-ft. Reels of Film. 413 U.S. 123 (1973) Ban on importing obscene material stands but material to be reevaluated under Miller test. Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations.
Case NameCitationSummary396 U.S. 57 (1969)Standard of nonobviousness in U.S. patent ...396 U.S. 1218 (1969)Delays in school desegregation397 U.S. 254 (1970)Procedural due process, hearing ...397 U.S. 358 (1970)When a juvenile is charged with an act ...Jun 9, 2022 · June 9, 2022 5:47 PM EDT. N ew financial-disclosure reports released Thursday reveal how much the U.S. Supreme Court Justices made last year—and show that some of them were able to add six ...
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The Burger Court largely affirmed the Warren Court's rulings, as the liberal bloc was still led by Justices William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, and John Paul Stevens. Meanwhile, Justice William Rehnquist led the conservative bloc.
Mar 4, 2021 · Beginning in the early 1980s, when it was not exactly cool to be a conservative law student, a small group of students started a club, named in honor of The Federalist Papers, where they could safely discuss their right-of-center views. Fast-forward 40 years and six of the nine sitting Supreme Court Justices are current or former members of ...
Significant Oral Arguments: The Burger Court. In 1996, the Supreme Court Historical Society appointed an Ad Hoc Committee of distinguished legal scholars and Supreme Court practitioners to determine the most significant oral arguments heard by the Supreme Court from 1955 until 1993. The Committee was asked to pick not only important cases, but ...
