Tag: CI
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Citizens of Each State
Citizens of Each StateA question much mooted before the Civil War was whether the term could be held to include free Negroes. In the Dred Scott case,171 the Court answered it in the negative. "Citizens of each State," Chief Justice Taney argued, meant citizens of the United States as under…
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Citizens in the Several States
All Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the Several StatesThe scope of "privileges and immunities" comprehended by the comity clause is bound by the provision's purpose. The classical judicial exposition of the meaning of the phrase is that of Justice Washington in Corfield v. Cor…
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Civil Rights Act Jurisdiction
Civil Rights Act JurisdictionPerhaps the most important of the special federal question jurisdictional statutes is that conferring jurisdiction on federal district courts to hear suits challenging the deprivation under color of state law or custom of any right, privilege, or immunity secured by the …
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Citizens
Controversies Between a State and Citizens of Another StateThe decision in Chisholm v. Georgia 1 that cases "between a state and citizens of another state" included those where a state was a party defendant provoked the proposal and ratific…
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Civil Cases
Jurisdiction Confined to Civil CasesIn Cohens v. Virginia, 1 there is a dictum to the effect that the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court does not include suits between a state and its own citizens. Long afterwards, the Supreme Court dismissed…
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Citizenship of Natural Persons
Citizenship of Natural PersonsFor purposes of diversity jurisdiction, state citizenship is determined by the concept of domicile 1 rather than of mere residence.2 That is, while the Court's defini…
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Citizenship of Corporations
Citizenship of CorporationsIn Bank of the United States v. Deveaux,1 Chief Justice Marshall declared: "That invisible, intangible, and artificial being, that mere legal entity, a corporation aggregate, is certainly not a citizen; and consequentl…
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Civilian Officer
The Commander-in-Chief a Civilian Officer (President)Is the Commander-in-Chiefship a military or a civilian office in the contemplation of the Constitution? Unquestionably the latter. An opinion by a New York surrogate deals adequately, though not authoritatively, with the subject: "The Preside…
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Civil Rights
Civil Rights and Commerce ClauseIt had been generally established some time ago that Congress had power under the Commerce Clause to prohibit racial discrimination in the use of the channels of commerce.1 The power under the clause to forbid discrimi…