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United States Supreme Court

7 dated entries naming United States Supreme Court, drawn from 6 separate years between 1870 CE and 1967 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1870June 22 – The office of the Solicitor General of the United States is set up, to supervise and conduct government litigation in the United States Supreme Court.source
  • 1891January 12 – Canada brings suit before the United States Supreme Court in re seizures of vessels in the Bering Sea.source

20th century

  • 1948March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution.source
  • 1956November 13 – Browder v. Gayle: The United States Supreme Court declares illegal the state and municipal laws requiring segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott.source
  • 1962June 25 – Engel v. Vitale: The United States Supreme Court rules that mandatory prayers in public schools are unconstitutional.source
  • 1967June 12 – Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.source
  • 1967June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.source

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