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Parent topics

• Government [r]: The system by which a community or nation is controlled and regulated. A government is a person or group of persons who govern a political community or nation. ^[e]
• Government of the United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Law [r]: Body of rules of conduct of binding legal force and effect, prescribed, recognized, and enforced by a controlling authority. ^[e]
• United States of America [r]: a large nation in middle North America with a republic of fifty semi-independent states, a nation since 1776. ^[e]

Subtopics

Doctrines

• Abrogation doctrine [r]: Doctrine of United States constitutional law which determines when and how the United States Congress may waive a state's sovereign immunity and subject the state to lawsuits to which the state has not consented (i.e., to "abrogate" state immunity to such suits). ^[e]
• Abstention doctrine [r]: Doctrines that a court of law might/must apply to refuse to hear a case to avoid intruding upon another court's power. ^[e]

Justices

• Antonin Scalia [r]: An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed by President Reagan in 1986. ^[e]
• Samuel Alito [r]: Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed in 2006. ^[e]
• Sonia Sotomayor [r]: (born June 25, 1954) American jurist, 111th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009 ^[e]
• William Rehnquist [r]: 16th Chief Justice of the United States of America ^[e]
• Benjamin N. Cardozo [r]: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1932-1938), nominated by President Herbert Hoover to succeed Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.. ^[e]
• Earl Warren [r]: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Governor of California (U.S. state) ^[e]
• Louis D. Brandeis [r]: (1856-1941) A highly influential American lawyer and theorist of Antitrust during the Progressive Era. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Adkins v. Children's Hospital [r]: A 1923 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court stricking down a minimum wage law, overruled in 1937. ^[e]
• Clarence Earl Gideon [r]: The petitioner/defendant in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, decided in 1963, establishing the right to counsel protected by the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. ^[e]
• Edwards v. Aguillard [r]: 1987 Supreme Court of the United States case which found Louisiana's 'equal treatment' law to be an unconstitutional breach of the Establishment Clause. ^[e]
• Ernesto A. Miranda [r]: (1941–1976) Career criminal. One of his cases established "Miranda rights", due process rights regarding interviews following arrest. ^[e]
• Ex parte Milligan [r]: An 1866 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that determined that a U.S. citizen, not part of the military or a prisoner of war, not in an area of hostilities, and where the civil courts were operating, could not be tried by a military tribunal ^[e]
• Ex parte Quirin [r]: A 1942 Supreme Court of the United States ruling that affirmed the right to try captured enemy personnel, who operated in civilian clothing, by a Presidentially appointed secret military tribunal ^[e]
• Extrajudicial detention, U.S. [r]: Situations where the Executive Branch of the United States government has detained individuals without the authority of the judicial branch of government; there have been many cases going back to through the early history of the nation, sometimes during overt war, and, perhaps better known at present, directed against non-national threats. ^[e]
• Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service [r]: A U.S. Supreme Court case which determined that facts or lists of facts could not be copyrighted. ^[e]
• Franklin Pierce [r]: (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) The 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. ^[e]
• Gideon v. Wainwright [r]: 372 U.S. 335 (1963), A landmark U.S. Supreme Court case establishing the right to counsel protected by the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. ^[e]
• Gifford Pinchot [r]: (1865-1946) Establisher and former head of the U.S. Forest Service. ^[e]
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• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Homeschooling in the United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jose Padilla [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kansas v. Crane [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Khaled el-Masri [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Korematsu v. United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Leser v. Garnett [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Linda Greenhouse [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Marbury v. Madison [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Medicalizing sexual offenses [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Meyer v. Nebraska [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Military Commissions Act of 2006 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Millard Fillmore [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mormon Church v. United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rasul v. Bush [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Robert A. Taft [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Robert Bork [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Roe v. Wade [r]: Add brief definition or description
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• United States v. Lopez [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William Howard Taft [r]: Add brief definition or description