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United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP), 412 U.S. 669 (1973), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that the members of SCRAP—five law students from the George Washington University Law School—had standing to sue under Article III of the Constitution to challenge a nationwide railroad freight rate increase ...
Erika Slezak. Erika Slezak (/ ˈsleɪzæk /; born August 5, 1946) [1] is an American actress, best known for her role as Victoria "Viki" Lord on the American daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1971 through the television finale in 2012 and again in the online revival in 2013. She is one of the longest-serving serial actors in American media.
The state secrets privilege is related to, but distinct from, several other legal doctrines: the principle of non-justiciability in certain cases involving state secrets (the so-called "Totten Rule"); [6] certain prohibitions on the publication of classified information (as in New York Times Co. v. United States, the Pentagon Papers case); and the use of classified information in criminal ...
College Savings Bank v. College Savings Bank, Petitioner, v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board. 948 F. Supp. 400 (D.N.J. 1996), aff'd, 131 F.3d 353 (3d Cir. 1997), cert. granted, 525 U.S. 1063 (1999). Dismissed for lack of jurisdiction because the Trademark Remedy Clarification Act did not abrogate state sovereign immunity ...
The Administrative Procedure Act, which governs the rulemaking and judicial functions of all United States government agencies, was signed into law. [27] The law has been described as "the most important statute affecting the administration of justice in the federal field since the passage of the Judiciary Act of 1789".
The two cases were Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis. The U.S. federal government had issued paper money known as United States Notes during the American Civil War, pursuant to the terms of the Legal Tender Act of 1862. In the 1869 case of Hepburn v. Griswold, the Court had held that the Legal Tender Act violated the Due Process Clause of the ...
The first wave of Ukrainian immigration to Canada began with Iwan Pylypow and Wasyl (Vasyl ') Eleniak, who arrived in 1891, and brought several families to settle in 1892. Pylypow helped found the Edna-Star Settlement east of Edmonton , the first and largest Ukrainian block settlement .
U.S. Const. Art. I, Sec 8. United States v. E. C. Knight Co., 156 U.S. 1 (1895), also known as the " Sugar Trust Case," was a United States Supreme Court antitrust case that severely limited the federal government's power to pursue antitrust actions under the Sherman Antitrust Act. In Chief Justice Melville Fuller 's majority opinion, the Court ...