Immunities
21Corfield v. Coryell — (6 Fed. Cas. 546, no. 3,230 C.C.E.D.Pa. 1823) was an 1823 federal circuit court case decided by Justice Bushrod Washington while riding circuit. In it, he upheld a New Jersey regulation forbidding non residents from gathering oysters and clams… …
22United States v. Wheeler — SCOTUSCase Litigants=United States v. Wheeler ArgueDate=April 28 ArgueYear=1920 DecideDate=December 13 DecideYear=1920 FullName=United States v. Wheeler, et al. USVol=254 USPage=281 Citation=41 S. Ct. 133; 65 L. Ed. 270; 1920 U.S. LEXIS 1159… …
23diplomatic immunity — exemption from taxation, searches, arrest, etc., enjoyed by diplomatic officials and their dependent families under international law, and usually on a reciprocal basis. [1910 15] * * * ▪ international law in international law, the… …
24Slaughter-House Cases — SCOTUSCase Litigants=Slaughter House Cases ArgueDate=January 11 ArgueYear=1872 ReargueDateA=February 3 ReargueDateB=5 ReargueYear=1873 DecideDate=April 14 DecideYear=1873 FullName=The Butchers Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent …
25Territories of the United States — This article is about the individual political entities currently or formerly called United States territories . For the various forms of the jurisdiction of the United States, see United States territory. Political divisions of the United States …
26Organized incorporated territories of the United States — North America and United States Territories ca. 1830.  • The Oregon Country to the upper left was in dispute with and later co managed by Great Britain.  • The American Southwest was added to the United States after the Mexican American …
27extraterritoriality — /ek streuh ter i tawr ee al i tee, tohr /, n. 1. immunity from the jurisdiction of a nation, granted to foreign diplomatic officials, foreign warships, etc. 2. the applicability or exercise of a sovereign s laws outside its territory. Also,… …
28Roger B. Taney: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) — ▪ Primary Source By the mid 1850s there existed a widespread feeling that the slavery question, which Congress had been unable to resolve, should be dealt with by the courts; and President Buchanan, in his inaugural address (March 4, 1857) …
29United States Constitution — P …
30Bradwell v. Illinois — Infobox SCOTUS case Litigants=Bradwell v. Illinois ArgueDate=January 18 ArgueYear=1873 DecideDate=April 15 DecideYear=1873 FullName=Myra Bradwell v. State of Illinois USVol=83 USPage=130 Citation=16 Wall. 130; 21 L. Ed. 442; 1872 U.S. LEXIS 1140… …
