Supreme Court Cases

Emphasized the distinct character of federal and state citizenship

States may set rates for grain storage private property dedicated to public use is subject to government regulation

Individual states had no power to regulate interstate commerce

Sherman Anti-Trust Act does not apply to a trust that refined over 90% of the sugar sold in the U.S; later eroded by other decisions

Declared the first federal income tax law unconstitutional

Announced the acceptance of the doctrine “separate but equal”

Territories gained in the Spanish-American War were no longer to be considered “foreign countries” but neither were they assumed to be part of the U.S; as territories they were ruled by Congress

A holding company formed for the express purpose of limiting competition is guilty of restraint of trade and in violation of the federal antitrust acts

Overturned a law limiting the number of hours a company may require a worker to work; said it infringed on the freedom of contracts

Upheld an Oregon law limiting the number of hours women could be employed in industry; to safeguard their childbearing abilities

Extended Muller v. Oregon ruling to include all industrial workers (10 hrs a day); overturned Lochner v. New York

Overturned a law banning products made by child labor from being sold in interstate commerce; reversed in 1941 in U.S. v. Darby Lumber Company

Freedom of speech may be curtailed if exercising that right posed a “clear and present danger” to others or to the state

Declared the NIRA unconstitutional

Declared the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional

Overruled practices like the “all-white” primary in choosing state and national officials

Upheld the 1942 removal of Japanese-Americans to relocation centers in inland campus; declared within the combined war powers of Congress

Held that intangible factors may be considered in determining whether professional education programs are comparable under the separate but equal doctrine

Overturned the “separate but equal” ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson; mandated that segregated facilities be eliminated “with all deliberate speed”

SCOTUS struck down Oklahoma’s “grandfather clause”