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| 1810, land sold by Georgia in a corrupt deal couldn't be reclaimed because they sold them |
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| Dartmouth College v Woodward |
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| 1819, held the Dartmouth charter was a contract with the king and the legislature couldn't break it |
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| Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge |
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| 1837, court held that law letting Charles River Bridge make a bridge didn't give exclusivity |
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| Home Building and Loan Assoc v Blaisdell |
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| 1934, court held that a law extending time given to repay mortgages didn't violate the constitution because it was an emergency |
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| 1856, this case, which was in new york court, not the Supreme Court, ruled that the state prohibition statute was unconstitutional because it violated due process |
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| 1877, Illinois set maximum rates for storing and moving grain, the court said that this was allowed because the public used these services |
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| Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company |
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1886, the county taxed the railroad company for the additional value added by fences, the court said that they can't use an arbitrary measure to increase tax.
MORE IMPORTANTLY the court implied that 14th amendment protections extend to corporations. |
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| 1897, Louisiana required insurance companies to have at least one office and registered agent in state. Court said this was unconstitutional. |
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| 1905, regulated hours bakers could work,court said the law interfered with contract freedom and struck down |
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| 1934, New York set minimum retail prices on milk the court held it was ok because the law wasn't "arbitrary, discriminatory, or demonstrably irrelevant" |
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| 1908, Oregon limited women to 10 hours of work, it was ruled constitutional because women were seen as weak |
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| West Coast Hotel v Parrish |
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| 1937, Parrish sued to recover the amount she would have gotten if she were paid minimum wage, the min wage law was ruled constitutional, this overruled Adkins v Children's Hospital |
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