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United States Vs. Brown

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 07, 1965

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  8. Ogden Vs. Saunders US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1827
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  10. Calder Vs. Bull US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1798
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  12. Drehman Vs. Stifle US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1869
  13. Flemming Vs. Nestor US Supreme Court · Jun 20, 1960
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  16. U.S. 437 (1965) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Brown
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  17. U.S. 437 (1965) United States v. Brown
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  18. construed in the light of its purpose to prevent legislative punishment of designated persons or groups. Cummins v. Missouri
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  19. aim is retributive, punishing past acts, or preventive, discouraging future conduct. In America Communications Ass'n v. Douds
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  20. retribution for past acts could constitute a bill of attainder, and misread the statute involved in United States v. Lovett
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  21. to federal courts has been interpreted both as a grant of exclusive authority over certain areas. Marbury v. Madison
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  22. as a limitation upon the judiciary, a declaration that certain tasks are not to be performed by courts, e.g., Muskrat v. United
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  23. States, 219 U. S. 346 . Compare Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
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  24. of Attainder Clause was consistently interpreted by this Court -- until the decision in American Communications Ass'n v. Douds
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  25. S. 382 , which we shall consider hereafter. In 1810, Chief Justice Marshall, speaking for the Court in Fletcher v. Peck
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  26. legislative punishment, of any form or severity, of specifically designated persons or groups. See also Ogden v. Saunders
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  27. The approach which Chief Justice Marshall had suggested was followed in the twin post-Civil War cases of Cummings v. Missouri
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  28. came in 1946, in United States v. Lovett
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  29. Communist Party v. Subversive
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  30. Garner v. Los
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  31. criminal liability. Page 381 U. S. 453 The Solicitor General points out that, in Board of Governors v. Agnew
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  32. but equivalent, expression for a list of undesirable characteristics. For, as the Court noted in Schneiderman v. United
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  33. Just last Term, in Aptheker v. Secretary
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  34. Schware v. Board
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  35. where they will in the future be able to bring about undesirable events. He relies on American Communications Ass'n v. Douds
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  36. Thus, Justice Iredell was on solid historical ground when he observed, in Calder v. Bull
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  37. Emphasis supplied.) We think that the Court in Douds misread United States v. Lovett
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  38. In American Communications Ass'n v. Douds
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  39. Reppy, The Spectre of Attainder in New York, 23 St. John's L.Rev. 1. See Respublica v. Gordon
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  40. Cooley, Constitutional Limitations, pp. 536-537 (8th ed. 1927). To the same effect, See Calder v. Bull
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  41. In 1872, in Pierce v. Carskadon
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  42. access to the courts upon the taking of an oath similar to those involved in Cummings and Garland. In Dent v. West
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  43. at 129 U. S. 124 , and did not single out a specific person or group for deprivation. See also Drehman v. Stifle
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  44. Noto v. United
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  45. Compare Hawker v. New
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  46. To the same effect, see Noto v. United
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  47. The Court's opinion in Communist Party v. Subversive
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  48. to a finding of attainder. Such an absolute rule would have flown in the face of explicit precedent, Cummings v. Missouri
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  49. American Communications Ass'n v. Douds
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  50. i.e., is directed at controlling future conduct). Flemming v. Nestor
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