Supreme Court of the United States

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court of last resort federal court supreme court

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest federal court in the U.S. judiciary, serving as the final arbiter of constitutional and federal law.

Aliases (15)

United States Supreme Court ×47
U.S. Supreme Court ×9
Supreme Court of the United States (on federal questions) ×6
Burger Court ×1
Rehnquist Court ×1
S. Ct. ×1
SCOTUS ×1
Supreme Court ×1
Supreme Court of the United States (in part) ×1
Supreme Court of the United States (in several early cases) ×1
Supreme Court of the United States (on federal questions only) ×1
Taft Court ×1
United States Supreme Court (indirectly, via CAAF) ×1
United States. Supreme Court ×1
Warren Court ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	court of last resort → federal court → supreme court →
alsoKnownAs	SCOTUS →
appealsFrom	United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces → United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit → United States courts of appeals → state supreme courts →
appointmentMethod	presidential nomination with Senate confirmation →
authorizedBy	United States Constitution →
branchOfGovernment	judicial branch of the United States federal government →
building	Supreme Court Building →
buildingLocation	One First Street NE, Washington, D.C. →
chiefJudgeTitle	Chief Justice of the United States →
composition	one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices →
coordinates	38.8906°N 77.0044°W →
country	United States of America →
createdBy	Judiciary Act of 1789 →
currentChiefJudge	John G. Roberts Jr. →
currentChiefJudgeStartDate	2005-09-29 →
dateEstablished	1789-03-04 →
decides	cases and controversies arising under federal statutes → cases and controversies arising under the Constitution → cases and controversies arising under treaties of the United States →
establishedBy	Article III of the United States Constitution →
hasOriginalJurisdictionOver	cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls → controversies in which a state is a party →
hasPower	judicial review of acts of Congress → judicial review of executive actions → judicial review of state laws for federal constitutional compliance →
jurisdiction	Constitution of the United States → federal law of the United States →
language	English →
legalSystem	common law →
location	Washington, D.C. →
notableCase	Brown v. Board of Education → Bush v. Gore → Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization → Marbury v. Madison → Obergefell v. Hodges → Roe v. Wade → United States v. Nixon →
numberOfPositions	9 →
publishes	United States Reports →
role	final arbiter of constitutional law → final arbiter of federal law → highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States →
seat	Washington, D.C. →
termLength	life tenure during good behavior →

Referenced by (showing first 500 of 566)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
11-400 → 91-902 → Argersinger v. Hamlin → Arizona v. United States → Baker v. Nelson → Bakke → Baldwin v. Fish and Game Commission of Montana → Barnard v. Thorstenn → Betts v. Brady → Bolling v. Sharpe → Bostock v. Clayton County → Brandenburg v. Ohio → Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee → Brown v. Board of Education → Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. → Bush v. Gore → California v. Texas → Cantwell v. Connecticut → Cantwell v. Connecticut → Carter v. Carter Coal Co. → Cheney v. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia → Cherokee Nation v. Georgia → Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah → Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission → City of Boerne v. Flores → Clinton v. Jones → Cooper v. Aaron → County of Allegheny v. ACLU → Craig v. Boren → Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council → Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education → De Canas v. Bica → Debs v. United States → Dickerson v. United States → Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization → Doe v. Bolton → Dred Scott v. Sandford → Escobedo v. Illinois → Ex parte Endo → Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin → Frazee v. Illinois Department of Employment Security → Frontiero v. Richardson → Furman v. Georgia → Gideon v. Wainwright → Goldberg v. Kelly → Gonzales v. Raich → Griggs v. Duke Power Co. → Griswold v. Connecticut → Grovey v. Townsend → Grutter v. Bollinger → Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States → Helvering v. Bruun → Helvering v. Davis → Helvering v. Davis → Helvering v. Gregory → Helvering v. Horst → Helvering v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. → Hicklin v. Orbeck → Hines v. Davidowitz → Hirabayashi v. United States → Hobbie v. Unemployment Appeals Commission of Florida → Howard → Hylton v. United States → INS v. Chadha → In re Debs → Jackson v. Georgia → Katzenbach v. McClung → Katzenbach v. Morgan → King v. Burwell → Korematsu v. United States → Korematsu v. United States (dissent) → Lawrence v. Texas → Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (2007) dissent → Lee v. Weisman → Lemon v. Kurtzman → Loving v. Virginia → Mapp v. Ohio → Mapp v. Ohio → Marbury v. Madison → Maryland v. Wirtz → Mathews v. Eldridge → McCulloch v. Maryland → McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green → McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents → McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents → Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson → Milliken v. Bradley → Miranda v. Arizona → Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan → Morgan v. Virginia → Murdock v. Pennsylvania → Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association → National League of Cities v. Usery → New York Times Co. v. United States → New York v. United States (1992) → Obergefell v. Hodges → October Term 2012 → Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. → Palko v. Connecticut → Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 → Paul v. Virginia → Planned Parenthood v. Casey → Plessy v. Ferguson → Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins → Printz v. United States → Printz v. United States → Reed v. Reed → Regents of the University of California v. Bakke → Reynolds v. United States → Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council → Saenz v. Roe → San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez → Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe → Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States → Schenck v. United States → Shaw v. Reno → Shelley v. Kraemer → Sherbert v. Verner → Smith v. Allwright → Smith v. Allwright → Steward Machine Co. v. Davis → Steward Machine Co. v. Davis → Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act ("U.S. Supreme Court") → Supreme Court of New Hampshire v. Piper → Supreme Court of Virginia v. Friedman → Sweatt v. Painter → The Civil Rights Cases → Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division → Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District → Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a valid exercise of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause → Toomer v. Witsell → Town of Greece v. Galloway → Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP → United Building & Construction Trades Council v. Mayor and Council of Camden → United States v. Butler → United States v. Comstock → United States v. Darby → United States v. Lopez → United States v. Morrison → United States v. Virginia (1996) majority opinion → Van Orden v. Perry → Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. NRDC → Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. → Wallace Reports → Ware v. Hylton → Ware v. Hylton → Washington v. Davis → Weeks v. United States → William H. Rehnquist → Wisconsin v. Yoder → Wisconsin v. Yoder → Wolf v. Colorado → Worcester v. Georgia → Zelman v. Simmons-Harris → Zschernig v. Miller → opinion in Texas v. Johnson →	court
Admissions Clause ("United States Supreme Court") → Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution → Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the United States Constitution → Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution → Article III – Presumptions in Civil Cases → Article III, Section 1 of the United States Constitution → Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution → Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution → Article IV, Section 2 of the United States Constitution → Article V → Article VI, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution → Assembly Clause → Contract Clause → Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution → Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution → Enforcement Clause → Establishment Clause → Extradition Clause ("United States Supreme Court") → Federal Rules of Evidence ("United States Supreme Court") → First Amendment to the United States Constitution → Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution → Fugitive Slave Clause ("United States Supreme Court") → Full Faith and Credit Clause → General Welfare Clause doctrine → Guarantee Clause → Guarantee of Republican Government → Import-Export Clause → Internal Revenue Code → Military Selective Service Act ("United States Supreme Court") → Necessary and Proper Clause → Perpetual Union ("U.S. Supreme Court") → Petition Clause → Privileges and Immunities Clause → Property Clause → Rule 56 ("U.S. Supreme Court") → Rule 8 ("United States Supreme Court") → Second Amendment to the United States Constitution → Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution → Sherman Antitrust Act → Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution → Smith Act → Supremacy Clause → Taxing and Spending Clause → Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution → Territorial Clause of the United States Constitution → Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 → Treaties of the United States ("United States Supreme Court") → Tucker Act jurisdiction → United States constitutional law → United States federal law → United States law → United States–Native American treaties ("United States Supreme Court") →	interpretedBy
Anthony M. Kennedy → Antonin Scalia → Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States → Associate Justices of the Supreme Court → Brett M. Kavanaugh → Byron R. White → Chief Justice of the United States → Clarence Thomas → David H. Souter → Elena Kagan → Felix Frankfurter → George Sutherland → Harlan F. Stone → James C. McReynolds → James Clark McReynolds → James Iredell Sr. → John G. Roberts Jr. → John M. Harlan II → John Paul Stevens → Lewis F. Powell Jr. → Morrison R. Waite → Neil M. Gorsuch → Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. → Owen J. Roberts → Pierce Butler → Pierce Butler → Ruth Bader Ginsburg → Samuel A. Alito Jr. → Stanley Forman Reed → William J. Brennan Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. → William Johnson → William O. Douglas → Willis Van Devanter →	memberOf
Alabama v. Shelton → American Insurance Assn. v. Garamendi → Bolling v. Sharpe → Bond v. United States → Chiafalo v. Washington → Cutter v. Wilkinson → Dartmouth College v. Woodward → Employment Division v. Smith → Fulton v. City of Philadelphia → Gitlow v. New York → Gregg v. Georgia → Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections → Helvering v. Clifford → Lynch v. Donnelly → Marshall Court era → Plyler v. Doe → Roe v. Wade → Shelby County v. Holder → South Carolina v. Katzenbach → United Public Workers v. Mitchell → Wickard v. Filburn →	hasCourt
Abrams v. United States → Black Reports → Bolling v. Sharpe ("United States Supreme Court") → Bostock v. Clayton County → Boynton v. Virginia → Branch v. Texas → Corrigan v. Buckley → Engel v. Vitale → Jackson v. Georgia → Jay Printz, Sheriff/Coroner, Ravalli County, Montana, et al. v. United States → Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission → McGhee v. Sipes → Otto → Paramount Decree of 1948 → Supreme Court Litigation Clinic → Supreme Court Police → Trump v. Vance → United States v. Nixon → Ware v. Hylton → Yamashita v. Styer →	jurisdiction
CA9 → Oregon Supreme Court ("Supreme Court of the United States (on federal questions)") → Rhode Island Supreme Court ("Supreme Court of the United States (on federal questions)") → Supreme Court of Guam → Tennessee Supreme Court ("Supreme Court of the United States (on federal questions)") → United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit → United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals → United States courts of appeals →	appealsTo
Alexander J. Dallas → Amy Coney Barrett → Benjamin C. Howard → Brett M. Kavanaugh → Elena Kagan → Henry Wheaton → John G. Roberts Jr. → John William Wallace → Ketanji Brown Jackson → Neil M. Gorsuch → Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States → Richard Peters Jr. → Ruth Bader Ginsburg → William J. Brennan Jr. →	employer
Cohens v. Virginia → Frohwerk v. United States → Gibbons v. Ogden → Gratz v. Bollinger ("United States Supreme Court") → Hylton v. United States → The British Debt Case ("United States Supreme Court") → West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette ("United States Supreme Court") → Yick Wo v. Hopkins →	hasJurisdiction
Alexander J. Dallas → Blackmun ("United States Supreme Court") → Blackmun Reports ("United States Supreme Court") → Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution → Equal Justice Under Law → Ollie McClung, Sr. ("United States Supreme Court") → William Marbury →	associatedWith
Brown II → Everson v. Board of Education → Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority → Gonzales v. Raich ("Rehnquist Court") → Obergefell v. Hodges → Ollie’s Barbecue case → South Dakota v. Dole →	decidedBy
Adele Sherbert → Alfred Leo Smith → Butler → Davis → Ernesto Arturo Miranda → George Reynolds → Peter B. Chiafalo →	jurisdictionOfCase
Cranch → Dall. → Dallas → Peters → Wallace → Wheaton →	coversCourt
FCC v. Pacifica Foundation → Hammer v. Dagenhart → Lochner v. New York → NFIB v. Sebelius → NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. → Romer v. Evans →	decidingCourt
Cranch Reports → Howard Reports → Howard's U.S. Supreme Court Reports → Otto Reports → Peters Reports →	courtReported
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 ("United States Supreme Court") → Blue Eagle ("U.S. Supreme Court") → Civil Rights Act of 1875 → National Industrial Recovery Act → National Industrial Recovery Act →	declaredUnconstitutionalBy
CA7 → Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review → Fourth federal judicial circuit → United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina →	higherCourt
Article II – Judicial Notice → Federal Equity Rules of 1912 → Rule 41 →	adoptedBy
Capitol Hill → Southeast Washington, D.C. → Washington metropolitan area →	contains
Connecticut Supreme Court ("Supreme Court of the United States (on federal questions)") → Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands → United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces →	decisionsReviewableBy
Due Process Clause ("United States Supreme Court") → Equal Protection Clause → Free Exercise Clause →	enforcedBy
Article III of the United States Constitution → Article III of the United States Constitution → Article III, Section 1 of the United States Constitution →	establishes
Article XI – Miscellaneous Rules → Origination Clause → United States Constitution →	isInterpretedBy
Teapot Dome scandal → United States government → United States of America →	judicialBody
Lawyers’ Edition → Supreme Court Reporter ("United States Supreme Court") → Wheaton Reports ("United States Supreme Court") →	jurisdictionCovered
Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice → Environmental Defense Section ("United States Supreme Court") → Indian Resources Section ("U.S. Supreme Court") →	litigatesIn
Murder in the Supreme Court ("United States Supreme Court") → The Court and the Constitution → The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government →	mainSubject
Benjamin N. Cardozo → Robert H. Jackson → Stephen G. Breyer →	memberOfCourt
Illinois state court system → Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ("Supreme Court of the United States (on federal questions only)") →	appealTo
Public Law 61-475 ("Supreme Court of the United States (in part)") → United States Supreme Court as an enforcement of the Thirteenth Amendment ("United States Supreme Court") →	appliesTo
October Term 2012 → United States Supreme Court cases of the Stone Court →	appliesToJurisdiction
Alfonso Lopez Jr. → Jane Roe →	associatedCourt
Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution ("United States Supreme Court") → The Federalist Papers ("United States Supreme Court") →	citedBy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court → Supreme Court of Maryland →	decisionsCanBeReviewedBy
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit →	hasHigherCourt
Commerce Clause → No Religious Test Clause →	hasInterpretationBy
United States law → United States politics →	hasSupremeCourt
Washington, D.C. → Washington, D.C. →	hostsInstitution
United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ("United States Supreme Court") → Washington Supreme Court ("Supreme Court of the United States (on federal questions)") →	isSubjectToReviewBy
Heman Marion Sweatt → Mary Doe →	legalCaseCourt
Supreme Court Reporter ("S. Ct.") →	abbreviation
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg ("U.S. Supreme Court") →	about
United States Capitol grounds →	adjacentTo
Evarts Act →	affectedBody
Judiciary Act of 1891 →	affectedInstitution
Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") →	alsoKnownAs
John Marshall Court →	apexCourt
Briggs v. Elliott →	appealedTo
Office of the Solicitor General →	appearsBefore
Appellate Section ("United States Supreme Court") →	appearsIn
Browder v. Gayle ("United States Supreme Court") →	appellateCourt
substantial effects doctrine →	appliedBy
Wheaton Reports →	appliesToCourt
Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States →	appointedBy
Darby Lumber Company →	associatedWithCourt
Necessary and Proper Clause →	authoritativeInterpreter
Federal Equity Rules of 1912 →	authority
Rules Enabling Act →	authorizes
John Paul Stevens →	barAdmission
United States courts of appeals →	below
Corfield →	caseCourt
William Henry Furman →	caseDecisionBy
Alfonso Lopez Jr. →	caseEscalatedTo
Mississippi Department of Health in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization →	caseHeardBy
executive branch of the United States →	checkedBy
Ketanji Brown Jackson →	clerkshipCourt
Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure →	collaboratesWith
Confederate States Supreme Court →	comparedTo
Tenure of Office Act ("United States Supreme Court") →	consideredBy
Ollie’s Barbecue →	courtCaseJurisdiction
Jonas Yoder →	courtOfFinalAppeal
Irin Carmon →	coveredTopic
Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States →	coversJurisdiction
Judiciary Act of 1789 →	createdCourt
First United States Congress →	createdInstitution
Judiciary Act of 1789 →	definedJurisdictionOf
Incorporation doctrine →	developedBy
Supreme Court of New Hampshire →	differentFrom
Standard Oil →	dissolutionBy
National Recovery Administration →	dissolvedBy
Murder in the Supreme Court ("United States Supreme Court") →	featuresInstitution
Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 →	foundUnconstitutionalInPartBy
Ollie’s Barbecue refused to serve Black customers in its dining area →	foundUnlawfulBy
Supreme Court Building →	governingBody
Title 28 of the United States Code →	governs
Appellate Section →	handlesCasesIn
Gitlow v. New York ("Taft Court") →	hasEra
United States district courts →	hasHighestCourtAbove
Shana Knizhnik ("U.S. Supreme Court") →	hasSubject
United States in tax litigation →	hasVenue
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985 →	heldUnconstitutionalInPartBy
federal judiciary of the United States →	highestCourt
Washington, D.C. →	hosts
Supreme Court Building →	houses
federal judiciary of the United States →	includesCourt
Hylton →	involvedInJurisdiction
United States Reports →	isOfficialReporterFor
One First Street NE, Washington, D.C. →	isSeatOf
United States government →	judicialReviewBy
David Mullins →	jurisdictionOfAppeal
Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County →	laterReviewedBy
Angel McClary Raich →	legalCaseJurisdiction
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court ("United States. Supreme Court") →	libraryOfCongressSubject
Mississippi Department of Health in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ("U.S. Supreme Court") →	litigationStage
United States Reports →	maintainedBy
United States territorial courts →	mayAppealTo
United States Attorney ("United States Supreme Court") →	mayAppearBefore
CAAF →	mayBeReviewedBy
United States Capitol →	near
Capitol South station →	nearbyLandmark
Harriet Miers →	nominatedFor
Clarence Thomas →	nominatedTo
New Deal ("Supreme Court of the United States (in several early cases)") →	opposedBy