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Chase Court And Fundamental Rights: A Watershed In American Constitutionalism, The , Robert J. Kaczorowski
Chase Court And Fundamental Rights: A Watershed In American Constitutionalism, The , Robert J. Kaczorowski
Faculty Scholarship
Three weeks before he died in May 1873, the frail and ailing Salmon P. Chase joined three of his brethren in dissent in one of the most important cases ever decided by the United States Supreme Court, the Slaughter-House Cases.1 This decision was a watershed in United States constitutional history for several reasons. Doctrinally, it represented a rejection of the virtually unanimous decisions of the lower federal courts upholding the constitutionality of revolutionary federal civil rights laws enacted in the aftermath of the Civil War. Institutionally, it was an example of extraordinary judicial activism in overriding the legislative will of …
John F. Sonnett Memorial Lecture Series: Legal Remedies Against The Council's Failure To Act, Ole Due
John F. Sonnett Memorial Lecture Series: Legal Remedies Against The Council's Failure To Act, Ole Due
Lectures
Lecture by President Ole Due of the European Court of Justice (1988-1994), regarding judicial activism in Europe and the United States. Includes biography and speaker introduction.