This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Taft Court, the tenure of Chief Justice William Howard Taft from July 11, 1921 through February 3, 1930.
Case nameCitationSummary United States v. Phellis shares in a subsidiary corporation issued to stockholders in the parent corporation considered taxable income Leser v. Garnett constitutionality of Nineteenth Amendment Balzac v. Porto Rico sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases United States v. Moreland Fifth Amendment, hard labor in prison Child Labor Tax Case docket title Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., found the Child Labor Tax Law of 1919 was not a valid use of Congress' power under the Taxing and Spending Clause Hill v. Wallace use of congressional taxing power under the Taxing and Spending Clause; relationship to Commerce Clause Federal Baseball Club v. National League baseball and antitrust regulation Wyoming v. Colorado whether Colorado could divert water from the Laramie River, an interstate stream system Takao Ozawa v. United States naturalization and race (Japanese-American) Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon Substantive Due Process, Takings clause of the Fifth Amendment Moore v. Dempsey mob-dominated trials, federal writ of habeas corpus, due process United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind naturalization and race (Indian-American) Adkins v. Children's Hospital freedom of contract, minimum wage laws Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. v. United States creation of implied-in-fact contracts Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Olsen constitutionality of the Grain Futures Act under the Commerce Clause Meyer v. Nebraska constitutionality of law prohibiting teaching of foreign languages; substantive due process Frothingham v. Mellon rejection of taxpayer standing Rindge Co. v. County of Los Angeles eminent domain and the building of a scenic road Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. review of state court decisions by U.S. District Courts Chung Fook v. White Interpretation of Immigration Act of 1917; marked end of era of strict plain meaning interpretation of statutes United States v. Ninety-Five Barrels (More or Less) Alleged Apple Cider Vinegar legality of misleading but factually accurate packaging statements under the Pure Food and Drug Act Carroll v. United States whether police searches of automobiles without a warrant violate the Fourth Amendment Samuels v. McCurdy Whether the ban on continued possession of previously legal contraband (alcohol in this case) constitutes an ex post facto law George W. Bush & Sons Co. v. Maloy Dormant Commerce Clause; states are not permitted to regulate common carriers engaged in interstate commerce on state highways Linder v. United States prosecution of physicians under the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act Irwin v. Gavit taxation of income from a trust Pierce v. Society of Sisters school choice, parochial schools Gitlow v. New York prosecution of seditious speech Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co. taxation of reduced loss on exchanged currency Corrigan v. Buckley private racially restrictive covenants Myers v. United States Presidential authority to remove executive branch officials Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. zoning, due process United States v. General Electric Co. patentee who grants a single license to a competitor to manufacture the patented product may lawfully fix the price at which the licensee may sell the product Farrington v. Tokushige constitutionality of anti-foreign language statute in the Territory of Hawaii under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment Nixon v. Herndon challenging the white primaries in Texas Harmon v. Tyler residential segregation based on race is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment Buck v. Bell compulsory sterilization, eugenics Hess v. Pawloski consent to in personam jurisdiction Whitney v. California prosecution of criminal syndicalism Lum v. Rice allowed states to exclude Chinese/minority students from schools reserved for whites New Mexico v. Texas determination of the border between New Mexico and Texas Miller v. Schoene Substantive due process, takings clause Black and White Taxicab Co. v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab Co. what law is to be applied when courts sit in diversity jurisdiction Olmstead v. United States admissibility of illegally obtained phone wiretaps as evidence Wisconsin v. Illinois federal power over state interests, Chicago Sanitary Canal Taft v. Bowers taxation of a gift of shares of stock under the Sixteenth Amendment (Chief Justice Taft did not participate) United States v. Schwimmer denial of naturalization to a pacifist, overruled by Girouard v. United States (1946) Pocket Veto Case constitutionality of the pocket veto Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner third-party payment of income tax, effect of Revenue Act of 1926
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