Dollar General Corp. v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 579 U.S. 545 (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court was asked to determine if an American Indian tribal court had the jurisdiction to hear a civil case involving...
Dollar General Corporation is an American chain of discount stores headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. As of January 2024, Dollar General operated 20,388 stores in the contiguous United States and Mexico. The company began in 1939 in...
This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes, a body of court cases historically called Indian Law, though the term Indian is not currently accepted by most indigenous groups and is considered offensive to...
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down eighteen per curiam opinions during its 2015 term, which began October 5, 2015 and concluded October 2, 2016. Because per curiam decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions...
Montana v. United States, 450 U.S. 544 (1981), was a Supreme Court case that addressed two issues: (1) Whether the title of the Big Horn Riverbed rested with the United States, in trust for the Crow Tribe or passed to the State of Montana upon...
The 2015 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 5, 2015, and concluded October 2, 2016. The table below illustrates which opinion was filed by each justice in each case and which justices joined each opinion.
On March 16, 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Antonin Scalia, who had died one month earlier. At the time of his nomination, Garland was the chief judge...
James Earl Graves Jr. (born 1953) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 579 of the United States Reports:
An African American is a citizen or resident of the United States. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States. but can also signify anyone who has origins in any of the black populations of...