Category: W
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Williams I
Williams I and Williams IIIn Williams I and Williams II, the husband of one marriage and the wife of another left North Carolina, obtained six-week divorce decrees in Nevada, married there, and resumed their residence in North Carolina where both previously had been married and domiciled. Prosecuted…
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Williams II
Cases Following Williams IIFears registered by the dissenters in the second Williams case that it might undermine the stability of all divorces and that the court of each forum state, by its own independent determination of domicile, might refuse recognition of foreign decrees, were temporarily set …
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Writ Scope
Habeas Corpus: Scope of the WritAt the English common law, habeas corpus was available to attack pretrial detention and confinement by executive order; it could not be used to question the conviction of a person pursuant to the judgment of a court with jurisdiction over the person. That common law m…
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Widespread Injuries
Generalized or Widespread InjuriesPersons do not have standing to sue in federal court when all they can claim is that they have an interest or have suffered an injury that is shared by all members of the public. Thus, a group of persons suing as citizens to litigate a contention that membership of …
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War Crimes
Articles of War: World War II CrimesAs a matter of fact, in General Yamashita's case,1 which was brought after the termination of hostilities for alleged "war crimes," the Court abandoned its restrictive conception altogether. In the wo…
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Watergate Controversy
The Watergate Controversy (Removal Power, Executive Establishment and Treaties)A dispute arose regarding the discharge of the Special Prosecutor appointed to investigate and prosecute violations of law in the Watergate matter. Congress vested in the Attorney General the power to conduct the criminal…
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Wiener Case
The Wiener Case (Removal Power, Executive Establishment and Treaties)Curtailment of the President's power of removal, so liberally delineated in the Myers decision, was not to end with the Humphrey case. Unresolved by the latter was the question whether the President, absent a provision expressl…
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War Power
Clauses 11-14. The War PowerThe Congress shall have power * * * ;To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years…
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War Powers in Peacetime
War Powers in PeacetimeTo some indeterminate extent, the power to wage war embraces the power to prepare for it and the power to deal with the problems of adjustment following its cessation. Justice Story emphasized that "[i]t is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war…