This is a list of cases reported in volume 299 of ''

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'', decided by the

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in 1936 and 1937.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 299 U.S.

The Supreme Court is established by Article III, Section 1 of the

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, which says: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court . . .". The size of the Court is not specified; the Constitution leaves it to

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to set the number of justices. Under the Judiciary Act of 1789 Congress originally fixed the number of justices at six (one chief justice and five associate justices). Since 1789 Congress has varied the size of the Court from six to

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, ten, and back to

justices (always including one chief justice). When the cases in volume 299 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:

Notable Case in 299 U.S.

''De Jonge v. Oregon''

In '' De Jonge v. Oregon''
299 U.S. 353 (1937)
the Supreme Court held that that the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause applies

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against the states. The Court found that De Jonge had the right to speak at a peaceful public meeting held by the

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, even though the party generally advocated an industrial or political change in revolution. However, in the 1950s with the fear of

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on the rise, the Court ruled in ''

Dennis v. United States ''Dennis v. United States'', 341 U.S. 494 (1951), was a United States Supreme Court case relating to Eugene Dennis, General Secretary of the Communist Party USA. The Court ruled that Dennis did not have the right under the First Amendment to the ...

'' (1951) that Eugene Dennis, who was the leader of the

, violated the

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by advocating the forcible overthrow of the United States government.

Federal court system

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(''i.e.,'' in which cases could be filed directly with the Supreme Court without first having been heard by a lower federal or state court). There were one or more federal District Courts and/or Circuit Courts in each state, territory, or other geographical region. The

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created the United States Courts of Appeals and reassigned the jurisdiction of most routine appeals from the district and circuit courts to these appellate courts. The Act created nine new courts that were originally known as the "United States Circuit Courts of Appeals." The new courts had jurisdiction over most appeals of lower court decisions. The Supreme Court could review either legal issues that a court of appeals certified or decisions of court of appeals by

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. On January 1, 1912, the effective date of the

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, the old Circuit Courts were abolished, with their remaining trial court jurisdiction transferred to the U.S. District Courts.

List of cases in volume 299 U.S.

: VanDevanter took no part in the case : Stone took no part in the case (Stone missed numerous cases listed above due to illness) : Roberts took no part in the case : Brandeis took no part in the case

Notes and references

External links

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