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Reynolds v. Sims , 377 U.S. 533 (1964), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the electoral districts of state legislative chambers must be roughly equal in population.
The Supreme Court upheld Reynolds' conviction for bigamy, deciding that to do otherwise would provide constitutional protection for a gamut of religious beliefs, including those as extreme as human sacrifice. The Court said: "Congress cannot pass a law for the government of the Territory which shall prohibit the free exercise of religion.
Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145 (1878), was a Supreme Court of the United States case which held that religious duty was not a defense to a criminal indictment. [1] Reynolds was the first Supreme Court opinion to address the First Amendment's protection of religious liberties, impartial juries and the Confrontation Clauses of the Sixth ...
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That the Supreme Court of North Carolina is little more than a Republican caucus has been clear for more than a year. Still, the court’s ruling last week that Justice Philip Berger Jr. can sit ...
In a decision Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to endorse a theory backed by North Carolina Republicans that state courts shouldn’t be allowed to strike down state lawmakers’ actions ...
The state thus ignored the Whole County Provision until 2002. That year, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the state constitution's equal protection clause presumed single-member districts and was thus a limitation on the Whole County Provision. It can also be argued that the "one person, one vote" rule from Reynolds v.
United States v. Reynolds, 345 U.S. 1 (1953), is a landmark legal case decided in 1953, which saw the formal recognition of the state secrets privilege, [1] a judicially recognized extension of presidential power. The US Supreme Court confirmed that "the privilege against revealing military secrets... is well established in the law of evidence ...