In 1836, the lessee of the defendants in error instituted an action of ejectment against the plaintiffs in error, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio, for a tract of land lying between the Little Miami and Sciota rivers, in that part of the state of Ohio known as the Virginia Military District, being on a survey [39 U.S. 322, 323] under a part of a military land warrant for one thousand acres. The cause was tried at July term, 1838, and a verdict and judgment were entered for the plaintiffs in the action, the defendant in error.
Category: SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES DECISIONS
Georgia v. Brailsford(1794)-Jury has power to judge law in bringing general verdict
The treaty of 1783 does not affect the right of the state; for, though it provides, generally, in the 4th article, that creditors, on either side, shall meet with no lawful impediment, in recovering their debts, this ought to be understood merely as a provision that the war, abstractedly considered, shall make no difference in the remedy, for the recovery of subsisting debts; that the remedy shall not be perplexed by instalment laws, pine-barren laws, bull laws, paper money laws, &c; but it does not decide, what are subsisting debts, which can only, indeed, be decided on the general principle of the law of nations.
RUCHO ET AL. v. COMMON CAUSE ET AL -27/6/2019
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES-Partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions be-yond the reach of the federal courts.
GERALD P. MITCHELL v. WISCONSIN – 27/06/ 2019
Whether a statute authorizing a blood draw from an unconscious motorist provides an exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement.