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  2. Judicial restraint - Wikipedia

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    Judicial restraint is a judicial interpretation that recommends favoring the status quo in judicial activities and is the opposite of judicial activism.Aspects of judicial restraint include the principle of stare decisis (that new decisions should be consistent with previous decisions); a conservative approach to standing and a reluctance to grant certiorari; [1] and a tendency to deliver ...

  3. Constitutional avoidance - Wikipedia

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    The avoidance doctrine flows from the canon of judicial restraint and is intertwined with the debate over the proper scope of federal judicial review and the allocation of power among the three branches of the federal government and the states. It is also premised on the "delicacy" and the "finality" of judicial review of legislation for ...

  4. Near v. Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court under which prior restraint on publication was found to violate freedom of the press as protected under the First Amendment.

  5. List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist ...

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    Kyllo v. United States: 533 U.S. 27 (2001) defining 'search' under the 4th Amendment with respect to heat sensors Good News Club v. Milford Central School: 533 U.S. 98 (2001) free speech, establishment clause Saucier v. Katz: 533 U.S. 194 (2001) qualified immunity of a police officer to a civil rights case brought through a Bivens action ...

  6. United States v. Carolene Products Co. - Wikipedia

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    The case is most notable for Footnote Four, in which Stone wrote that the Court would exercise a stricter standard of review when a law appears on its face to violate a provision of the United States Constitution, restricts the political process in a way that could impede the repeal of an undesirable law, or discriminates against "discrete and ...

  7. Nebraska Press Ass'n v. Stuart - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] In 1971 the Supreme Court ruled in New York Times Co. v. United States that gag orders, viewed as form of prior restraint are presumptively unconstitutional. [2] In Nebraska Press Ass'n the Supreme Court imposed a high burden on the government in order to sustain a prior restraint against the press. [2]

  8. Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Ass'n - Wikipedia

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    Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, 485 U.S. 439 (1988), was a United States Supreme Court landmark [2] case in which the Court ruled on the applicability of the Free Exercise Clause to the practice of religion on Native American sacred lands, specifically in the Chimney Rock area of the Six Rivers National Forest in California. [2]

  9. Marbury v. Madison - Wikipedia

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    Marbury v. Madison and Judicial Review. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0517-0. (Claims that it is a mistake to read the case as claiming a judicial power to tell the President or Congress what they can or cannot do under the Constitution.) Irons, Peter H. (1999). A People's History of the Supreme Court. Penguin Books. pp. 104–107.