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Set a precedent on Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
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Theodore Roosevelt appointed Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. as the 58th Supreme Court Justice.
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President Theodore Roosevelt appointed William R. Day as the 59th Supreme Court Justice.
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The Rotary Club of Businessmen was founded in Chicago, Illinois.
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Theodore Roosevelt appointed William Henry Moody as the 60th Supreme Court Justice
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President William Howard Taft appointed Horace Harmon Lurton as the 61st Supreme Court Justice
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Congress created the U.S. Court of Customs Appeals, with five authorized judgeship's, to hear appeals from the Board of General Appraisers later the U.S. Customs Court.
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This act provided the regulation of pesticide use, sale, and distribution.
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A movement that defended women's rights and to establish equal opportunities as men in U.S society.
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Congress created the Commerce Court in 1910 to hear appeals from decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which was established in 1887 to regulate the nation’s railroads.
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Edward Douglass White is appointed by William Howard Taft as the 9th Chief Supreme Court Justice.
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President William Howard Taft appointed Joesph Rucker Lamar as the 64th Justice of the Supreme Court,
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President William Howard Taft appointed Willis Van Devanter as the 63rd Supreme Court Justice
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In 1911, Congress compiled the first judicial code, which consisted of all the statutes Congress had passed concerning the federal judiciary that were still in effect.
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President William Howard Taft appointed Mahlon Pitney as the 65th Supreme Court Justice.
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President Woodrow Wilson appointed James Clark McReynolds as the 66th Supreme Court Justice
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President Woodrow Wilson appointed Louis Brandei as the 67th Supreme Court Justice
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President Woodrow Wilson appointed John Hessin Clarke as the 68th Supreme Court Justice.
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This supreme court case upheld the Espionage Act of 1917 and sentenced Eugene Debs to ten years in prison and a loss of his citizenship.
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Treaty of Versailles ended WWI and made Germany pay for damages
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Tennessee became the last state to ratify the 16 amendment. Woman could vote just like men could.
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Warren G. Harding appointed William Howard Taft as the 10th Chief Supreme Court Justice.
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President Warren G. Harding appointed George Sutherland as the 70th Supreme Court Justice.
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President Warren G. Harding appoints Pierce Butleras the 71st Supreme Court Justice.
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President Warren G. Harding appointed Edward Terry Sanford as the 72nd Supreme Court Justice
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The first execution by gas chamber was in Carson City, Nevada.
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President Calvin Coolidge appointed Harlan F. Stone as the 73rd Supreme Court Justice.
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In order to reduce the burden on the the U.S. circuit and District courts, Congress established the Board of General Appraisers to decide controversies related to appraisals of imported goods and classifications of tariffs.
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District of Colorado.
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The Great Depression started on October 29th in the United States.
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President Herbert Hoover appointed Owen Joesphus Roberts as the 74th Supreme Court Justice.
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This supreme court case said that Congress could not delegate legislative powers to the executive and that control of interstate commerce could not apply to intrastate commerce. This decision was designed to reduce FDR's power in the US government.
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Amendment set up a social insurance program funded by contributions from employers and employees
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Last public execution took place in Kentucky with 20,000 people watching, along with full media coverage.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt. appointed Hugo Black as the 76th Supreme Court Justice
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Stanley Forman Reed as the 77th Supreme Court Justice
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Felix Frankfurter as the 78th Supreme Court Justice
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The Congress of Racial Equality was formed.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Robert H. Jackson as the 82nd Supreme Court Justice.
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President Roosevelt banned discrimination in defense industries.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Harlan F. Stone as the 12th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Wiley Blount Ruthledge as the 83rd Supreme Court Justice.
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This supreme court case upheld the constitutionality of the Japanese relocation camps that resulted in these Japanese Americans in losing millions of dollars in property and earnings.
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Tom C. Clark is appointed as the 86th Supreme Court Justice by President Harry S. Truman.
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President Harry S. Truman appointed Sherman Minton as the 87th Supreme Court Justice
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1st supreme court case ruling discrimination against race other than African American.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as the 14th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court case in which it was ruled that segregation in the public schools was "inherently unequal" and thus unconstitutional. This court decision reversed the court's earlier decision in the Plessy vs Ferguson supreme court case of 1896.
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All persons born or naturalized in the United States have the right to do process of law before being taken to prison, or losing their properties.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed John Marshall Harlan II as the 89th Supreme Court Justice.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed William J. Brennan as the 90th Supreme Court Justice by
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After much pressure to end the death penalty after England and Canada ended their death penalty.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Charles Evans Whittaker as the 91st Supreme Court Justice
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Allowed more powerful investigations of the violations of civil rights to increase.
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States that states cannot nullify decisions of Federal Courts
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Potter Stewart as the 92nd Supreme Court Justice .
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A program created by president Lyndon B. Johnson to help society. The two main goals were the elimination of poverty and racial injustices in U.S society.
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The Supreme Court ruled that segregation on interstate buses and in waiting rooms was unconstitutional and now illegal.
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Delaware was pressured to restore the death penalty.
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A Volunteer Program
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Warren Court left an unprecedented legacy of judicial activism in the area of civil rights law as well as in the area of civil liberties—specifically, the rights of the accused as addressed in Amendments 4 through 8.
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School initiated that prayer in public schools violates the first amendment right of freedom of religion.
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President John F. Kennedy appointed Arthur Goldberg as the 94th Supreme Court Justice
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President John F. Kennedy appointed Byron White as the 93rd Supreme Court Justice.
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This supreme court case said that all defendants in serious criminal cases were entitled to legal counsel, even if they were too poor to afford it.
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In this supreme court case the supreme court ruled that public figures sued could sue for libel only if they could prove that "malice" had motivated their defamers.
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Oregon abolishes capital punishment after being pressured from both side of the death penalty
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United States Supreme Court case that ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
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United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned segregation in public accommodations, and gave the government the ability to compel school boards into desegregating their schools.
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This supreme court case struck down a Connecticut state law that prohibited the use of contraceptives, declaring a "right of privacy" that the state of Connecticut was in conflict with.
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New York, Iowa, West Virginia, and Vermont abolish the death penalty.
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President Lyndon B appointed Johnson Abe Fortas as the 95th Supreme Court Justice.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy test and gave the federal government power to oversee voter registrations and elections in states that had discriminated against minorities.
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This supreme court case ensured the right of the accused to remain silent and enjoy the other protections when accused of a crime.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall as the 96th Supreme Court Justice
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States that stop and frisk do not violate the Constitution in some circumstances.
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The Fair Housing Act banned discrimination in housing.
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President Richard Nixon appointed Warren E. Burger as the 15th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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President Richard Nixon appointed Lewis F. Powell Jr as the 99th Supreme Court Justice.
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President Richard Nixon appointed Harry Blackmun as the 98th Supreme Court Justice appointed
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Piece of landmark decision that ruled unconstitutional a state law that banned abortions except to same the life of the mother.
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The Juvenile Justice System splits from the regular justice system to create a court just for minors, with its own set of rule that is separate from the adult justice system.
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President Gerald Ford appointed John Paul Stevens as the 101st Supreme Court Justice by
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After the Watergate Scandal the Department of Justice created the section of Public Integrity to review the acts of politicians.
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States Students don't have a 1st amendment right to make obscene speeches in school
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President Ronald Reagan appointed Anthony Kennedy as the 104th Supreme Court Justice.
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First drug court in Miami
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President George H.W. Bush appointed David Souter as the 105th Supreme Court Justice.
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The Money Laundering Section is created to assist the Asset Recovery Section and to also help with the justice departments anti-money laundering enforcement efforts.
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President Bill Clinton appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the 107th Supreme Court Justice.
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President Bill Clinton appointed Stephen Breyer as the 108th Supreme Court Justice by
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North American Free trade agreement removed tariffs and trade barriers.
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The Capital Case Unit Created to create fairness when it came to the death penalty.
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States that students may not use school loudspeaker systems to offer student-led prayer, in public schools.
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Says it's cruel and unusual to punish and execute a person on crimes they committed before turning 18.
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The Gang Unit is created to target gang-related crimes, and it's moved into the National Security Division.
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President Barack Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor as the 111th Supreme Court Justice
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The Office of the Special Investigation merger is created from the merger between the Human Rights and Special Prosecution Section
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Barack Obama appointed Elena Kagan as the 112th Supreme Court Justice.
