Federalism

William Marbury petitioned for a writ of mandamus after his midnight judicial commission went undelivered by the incoming Jefferso...

Lord Fairfax, a British loyalist, left Virginia lands to his nephew Denny Martin. Virginia confiscated and sold part of the land, ...

Maryland taxed the Baltimore branch of the Second Bank of the United States, and bank cashier James McCulloch refused to pay. Chie...

Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston held a New York steamboat monopoly that Aaron Ogden licensed, while Thomas Gibbons operated un...

Thomas Johnson bought land from Piankeshaw tribes in 1773, and William M'Intosh later obtained a patent for the same land from the...

Samuel Worcester, a missionary living in Cherokee territory with federal permission, was convicted under a Georgia statute requiri...

John Barron sued Baltimore for ruining his wharf when the city diverted streams during road work, claiming a Fifth Amendment takin...

Sherman Booth, a Wisconsin abolitionist jailed for helping a fugitive slave escape, was freed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, whic...

Congress allowed either house to veto executive actions implementing statutes, such as the suspension of Jagdish Chadha's deportat...

Alfonzo Lopez carried a handgun into a San Antonio high school and was charged under a federal law barring guns near schools. Chie...

The Brady Act required local sheriffs to conduct handgun purchase background checks until the federal system launched. Sheriff Jay...

Christy Brzonkala sued her alleged assailants under a federal statute creating a damages remedy for gender-motivated crimes of vio...

Twenty-six states challenged the Affordable Care Act. Chief Justice Roberts, writing in part for a majority, held that the mandate...

Jimcy McGirt was convicted in Oklahoma court for crimes on land the Creek Nation claimed under nineteenth-century treaties. Justic...

North Carolina legislators argued that the Elections Clause makes state legislatures virtually unconstrained by state courts when ...

Edward Prigg, a Maryland slave catcher, seized Margaret Morgan and her children in Pennsylvania and carried them back to Maryland ...

The Keating-Owen Act of 1916 prohibited interstate shipment of goods produced in factories that employed young children or worked ...

The Schechter brothers ran a kosher poultry slaughterhouse in Brooklyn and were convicted of violating the Live Poultry Code issue...

Roscoe Filburn, an Ohio farmer, grew more wheat than his allotment under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, intending to fee...

After Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block nine Black students from entering Little Rock Central High S...