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The act was based on model legislation written by Harry H. Laughlin and challenged by a case that led to the United States Supreme Court decision of Buck v. Bell. [3] The Supreme Court upheld the law as constitutional and it became a model law for sterilization laws in other states.
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection and health of the state" did not violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the ...
When the directors issued an order for the sterilization of Buck, her guardian appealed the case to the Circuit Court of Amherst County. It sustained the decision of the board. The case then moved to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, where it was upheld. It was appealed to the US Supreme Court in Buck v. Bell, which upheld the order.
Jones v. Bock , 549 U.S. 199 (2007), was a case before the United States Supreme Court . The issues concerned obligations of inmate litigants before one could file a civil rights action.
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Taco Cabana Int'l, Inc. v. Two Pesos, Inc., 932 F.2d 1113 (5th Cir. 1991) Holding; Proof of secondary meaning is not required to prevail on a claim under § 43(a) of the Lanham Act where a trade dress at issue is inherently distinctive: Court membership; Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun
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