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..... adopt suggested regulatory schemes. it does not, however, authorize congress simply to direct the states to provide for the disposal of the radioactive waste generated within their borders. while there may be many constitutional methods of achieving regional self-sufficiency in radioactive waste disposal, the method congress has chosen is not one of them. the ..... , as an alternative to regulating pursuant to congress' direction, the option of taking title to and possession of the low level radioactive waste 175 generated within their borders and becoming liable for all damages waste generators suffer as a result of the states' failure to do so promptly. in this provision, congress has crossed the ..... any burden caused by new york's failure to secure a disposal site will not be borne by the residents of other states. the purpose of the act is not defeated by the invalidation of the take title provision, so we may leave the remainder of the act in force. vii some truths are so basic that, like .....
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..... a primary objective, of the framers of the constitution. history, as we know, vindicates their judgment. the national, free market within our borders has been a singular force in shaping the consciousness and creating the reality that we are one in purpose and destiny. the commerce clause doctrine that emerged from the decisions ..... and points to the tax policy s distinctive character. in both the interstate market as most broadly conceived issuers and holders of all fixed-income securities and the more specialized market commerce solely in federally tax-exempt municipal bonds, often conducted through interstate municipal bond funds nearly every taxing state ..... however, would require overruling most, if not all, of the cases on point decided since alexandria scrap . white , for example, also scrutinized a government acting in dual roles. the mayor of boston promulgated an executive order that bore the hallmarks of regulation: it applied to every construction project funded wholly or partially .....
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..... no doubt whatsoever that the states, in virtue of their general police power, possesses full jurisdiction to arrest and restrain runaway slaves, and remove them from their borders, and otherwise to secure themselves against their depredations and evil example, as they certainly may do in cases of idlers, vagabonds and paupers. the rights of the owners of fugitive ..... labor, for the protection of free people of color, and to prevent kidnapping." it provides, "if any person or persons shall, from and after the passing of this act, by force and violence, take and carry away, or cause to be taken or carried away, and shall, by fraud or false pretence seduce, or cause to be seduced, ..... from labor, for the protection of free people of color, and prevent kidnapping." "sec. i. if any person or persons shall, from and after the passing of this act, by force and violence, take and carry away, or cause to be taken or carried away, and shall, by fraud or false pretence, seduce, or cause to be seduced, .....
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..... as the settled law of this court that grants page 179 u. s. 166 by congress of portions of the public lands bordering on or bounded by navigable waters convey, of their own force, no title or right below high water mark, but leave the question of the use of the shores by the owners of ..... ascertain whether the defendant could constitutionally acquire from the united states authority to obstruct the plaintiff's access to navigable water in front of his land without making or securing compensation to him. the issue, in point of law, was between the individual plaintiff and the individual defendant, and, the united states not being a party ..... circuit court of the united states for the district of new jersey by the attorney general of new jersey, seeking to restrain the baltimore & new york railroad company, acting under congressional authority, from occupying without compensation land belonging to the state of new jersey, lying under tidewaters, by the pier of a bridge. mr. justice bradley, .....
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..... v. zichfeld, 23 nev. 304, 46 p. 802. by being domiciled and living in north carolina, petitioners secured all the benefits and advantages of its government and participated in its social and economic life. as long as petitioners ..... states to respect the constitutional power of each to deal with domestic relations of those domiciled within its borders is hardly an argument for allowing one state to deprive the other forty-seven states of their constitutional ..... conceal in familiar formula its essentially capricious, and therefore nullifying, character. this discarded, choice then would be forced between the ideas of transiency with due process safeguards and some minimal establishment of more than casual or transitory ..... consequences. whatever embarrassment or inconvenience resulting to those who have made property settlements, contracted new marriages, or otherwise acted in reliance upon divorce decrees obtained under conditions found to exist in this case is not insurmountable. the states .....
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..... . 357 u. s. 129 -130. (g) the only act of congress expressly curtailing the movement of communists across our borders, 2 and 6 of the internal security act of 1950, has not yet become effective, because the communist party has not registered under that act, and there is not in effect a final order of the board ..... united page 357 u. s. 122 states unless he bears a valid passport. [ footnote 4 ]" and the proclamation necessary to make the restrictions of this act applicable and in force has been made. [ footnote 5 ] prior to 1952, there were numerous laws enacted by congress regulating passports, and many decisions, rulings, and regulations by ..... , code no. 5000. accordingly, it was recommended that passports be refused any person "who counsels or advocates publicly or privately the overthrow [of] organized governments by force." id. among the examples stated were "[m]embers of the communist party." id. two weeks later, the state department published office instructions, dated december 16, 1920 .....
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..... the fourteenth amendment and halt this violence, congress enacted a series of civil rights statutes, including the force acts, see act of may 31, 1870, 16 stat. 140; act of feb. 28, 1871, 16 stat. 433, and the ku klux klan act, see act of apr. 20, 1871, 17 stat. 13. mcdonald v. chicago - 08-1521 (2010) ..... s ordinance is unexceptional.[ footnote 37 ] the liberty interest asserted by petitioners is also dissimilar from those we have recognized in its capacity to undermine the security of others. to be sure, some of the bill of rights procedural guarantees may place restrictions on law enforcement that have controversial public safety implications. ante ..... 28 to the extent that petitioners contend the city of chicago s registration requirements for firearm possessors also, and separately, violate the constitution, that claim borders on the frivolous. petitioners make no effort to demonstrate that the requirements are unreasonable or that they impose a severe burden on the underlying right they .....
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..... no doubt whatsoever that the states, in virtue of their general police power, possess full jurisdiction to arrest and restrain runaway slaves and remove them from their borders and otherwise to secure themselves against their depredations and evil example, as they certainly may do in cases of idlers, vagabonds, and paupers." prigg v. pennsylvania, 16 pet. 625 ..... to them by the constitution. every pilot law in the commercial states has, it is believed, been either modified or passed since the act of 1789 adopted those then in force, and the provisions since made are all void if the restriction on the power of the states now contended for should be maintained, and the ..... on imports and exports except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws," "and the acts of congress, in pursuance of the aforesaid several clauses of said constitution of the united states now existing in full force, which objections were, at the trial of said cause before said court, taken by the said .....
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..... for the ninth circuit syllabus 1. a patent issued under the homestead law, after the date of the desert land act of 1877, for lands in the state of oregon bordering on a nonnavigable stream does not, of its own force, invest the owner of the land with a common law right to have the water flow ut solebat, as against ..... of the stream, on respondents' property, and was for the double purpose of freeing the channel, incident to the use of the water rights adjudicated and permitted, and securing broken stone for a dam to be used in connection with a power plant which the cement company was about to build. neither petitioner nor any of its predecessors ..... far, at least, as might be necessary for the beneficial use of the government property, and, second, that its power was limited by that of the general government to secure the uninterrupted navigability of all navigable streams within the limits of the united states. with these exceptions, the court, however, thought (p. 174 u. s. 706 ) that, .....
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..... credit clause or the decisions under it which lends support to the view that it compels any state to subordinate its domestic policy, with respect to persons and their acts within its borders, to the laws of any other." concurring opinion in bradford electric light co., inc. v. clapper, 286 u. s. 145 , 286 u. s. 163 -164. [ ..... is not immune from the requirement of full faith and credit because the successful plaintiff could have maintained his suit under the law of other states, and have secured a larger recovery in some, or because the jurisdiction of the court in one state to hear the cause may depend upon some facts different from the facts ..... merged in a judgment in one state is likewise merged in every other. the full faith and credit clause, like the commerce clause, thus became a nationally unifying force. it altered the status of the several states as independent foreign sovereignties, each free to ignore rights and obligations created under the laws or established by the judicial .....
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