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Mar 27, 2023 · A case in which the Court will decide whether the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act—which requires hospitals receiving Medicare funding to offer “necessary stabilizing treatment” to pregnant women in emergencies—preempts an Idaho law that criminalizes most abortions in the state. Granted. Jan 5, 2024.
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The decision launched the Court on a troubled course of...
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- Gideon V. Wainwright
The Court reasoned that the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of...
- Schenck V. United States
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- Dred Scott V. Sandford
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- Baker V. Carr
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- Griswold V Connecticut
In 1879, Connecticut passed a law that banned the use of any...
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- Loving V. Virginia
The Court rejected the state's argument that the statute was...
- Wisconsin V Yoder
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- MAPP V. Ohio
Oyez. The Supreme Court is the highest court in the United States. The Supreme Court (also known as SCOTUS or simply the Court) mostly hears cases on appeal from lower courts. These might be state supreme courts, federal circuits, or appellate courts of any level. The Court’s decision is final and can only be overturned by its own later ...
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Facts of the case. B.L., a student at Mahanoy Area High School (MAHS), tried out for and failed to make her high school's varsity cheerleading team, making instead only the junior varsity team. Over a weekend and away from school, she posted a picture of herself on Snapchat with the caption “Fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck ...
In 1970, Jane Roe (a fictional name used in court documents to protect the plaintiff’s identity) filed a lawsuit against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, Texas, where she resided, challenging a Texas law making abortion illegal except by a doctor’s orders to save a woman’s life. In her lawsuit, Roe alleged that the ...
Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., is the 17th Chief Justice of the United States, and there have been 104 Associate Justices in the Court’s history.
The Court and Its Procedures. A Term of the Supreme Court begins, by statute, on the first Monday in October. Usually Court sessions continue until late June or early July. The Term is divided between “sittings,” when the Justices hear cases and deliver opinions, and intervening “recesses,” when they consider the business before the ...
Oyez. Oyez ( / oʊˈjɛz /, / oʊˈjeɪ /, / oʊˈjɛs /; more rarely with the word stress at the beginning) is a traditional interjection said two or three times in succession to introduce the opening of a court of law. The interjection is also traditionally used by town criers to attract the attention of the public to public proclamations.
