The core banking powers of federally chartered banks such as the power to lend come from the National Bank Act (“NBA”). Brief for Respondent, Bank of America at 1. Under the NBA, chartering, regulation, and supervision of national banks are overseen by...
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George Corson worked as a machinist, maintaining and repairing locomotives for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, from 1947 to 1974. See Kurns v. A.W. Chesterton, Inc., 620 F.3d 392, 393 (3rd Cir. 2010); Brief for Petitioners Gloria...
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Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta (“Castro-Huerta”) is a non-Indian who was convicted of child neglect by a jury in Tulsa County District Court, a state court in Oklahoma. Castro-Huerta v. Oklahoma at 1a. Castro-Huerta appealed the decision, arguing that the...
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Oral argument: Mar. 30, 2011
Appealed from: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Nov. 27, 2009); United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Jan. 8, 2010)
DRUGS, FAILURE-TO-WARN,... (Wex page)
See Preemption; constitutional clauses. Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the U.S. Constitution is commonly referred to as the Supremacy Clause. It establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even...