Con Law Midterm

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Gibbons v Augden

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Steamboat monopoly case granted by NY harbor. violates commerce clause.

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dred scott v Sandford

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dred sued for freedom because he went from slave to free state. couldn't sue because not a citizen
the dissent said court had no jurisdiction
struck down the Missouri compromise

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ex parte merryman

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Not supreme court Taney says Lincoln can't congress must suspend writ but Lincoln ignores him and frees prisoners at the end of the war

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prize cases

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blockade. Lincoln says to send ships to but can't until congress declares war. textually no and Breyer dissent saying in times of emergency

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slaughterhouse cases

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new Orleans 14th doesn't apply here fields dissent saying states interference with individual rights

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bradwell v. Illinois

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Myra bradwell, lawyer, doesn't apply, women are protected. chase dissents

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Cruickshank

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mob attacks blacks only 3 charged out of 97 weakness of fed judiciary to protect black rights freedom to assemble

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Munn v Illinois

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Grange cases, private property, liberty of contract

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Mugler v Kansas

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Outlaws alcohol no compensation to Mugler liberty of contract unless hsm field dissents at least compensation for other things

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lochner v NY

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Baker- 10 hrs lib of contract Harlan - diseases of the workers, holmes- no such thing as lib. "14th amendment does not enact Herbert Spencer social statics."

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Muller v. oregan

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justice fuller. women can't work 10 hrs a day. use foreign countries

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adkins v children's hospital

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women should be given same lib of contract as men. Holmes says no such thing Minimum wage law for women violated the due process right to contract in 5th amendment

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Meyers v. Nebraska

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A 1919 Nebraska law prohibiting the teaching of modern foreign languages to grade-school children violated the Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment.

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Pierce v Society of Sisters

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The Oregon Compulsory Education Act that required attendance at public schools, forbidding private school attendance, was held unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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West coast hotel v. parish

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minimum wage law for women due process clause of 5th amend Southerland questions the meaning of constitution Washington's minimum wage law for women was a valid regulation of the right to contract freely because of the state's special interest in protecting their health and ability to support themselves. Supreme Court of Washington affirmed.

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nlrb v Jones & Laughlin steel corp

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Congress had the power, under the Commerce Clause, to regulate labor relations. strike down new deal legislation

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united States v Darby

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The Fair Labor Standards Act was a constitutional exercise of Congressional power under the Commerce Clause.

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us v Carolene

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The Filled Milk Act did not exceed the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce, or violate due process under the Fifth Amendment. Southern District of Illinois District Court reversed.

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wickard v. fillburn

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Production quotas under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 were constitutionally applied to agricultural production that was consumed purely intrastate, because its effect upon interstate commerce placed it within the power of Congress to regulate under the Commerce Clause. Southern District of Ohio reversed. wheat case.