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NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. 1938 Striking workers continue to be employees within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act, but use of strikebreakers is permissible
United States v. Carolene Products Co. 1938 interstate commerce, substantive due process, and (in footnote four) equal protection
Hinderlider v. La Plata River & Cherry Creek Ditch 1938 reaffirming existence of federal common law in other cases
Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins 1938 limiting general federal common law by requiring that state law apply except where federal law exists
Hale v. Kentucky 1938 exclusion of African Americans from juries
New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. 1938 safeguard right to boycott and chips away at discriminatory hiring practices against African Americans
Lovell v. City of Griffin 1938 City ordinance requiring official permission to distribute literature held unconstitutionally broad
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson 1938
Palko v. Connecticut 1937 selective incorporation, double jeopardy
Bogardus v. Commissioner 1937 distinction between taxable compensation and tax-exempt gifts under the Internal Revenue Code
Steward Machine Company v. Davis 1937 Court upholds the unemployment insurance provisions of the Social Security Act
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation 1937 interstate commerce; another consequence of “the switch in time that saved nine”
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish 1937 Court: Supreme Court of Washington
freedom of contract, minimum wage laws; “the switch in time that saved nine”
DeJonge v. Oregon 1937 14th Amendment applied to freedom of assembly
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. 1936 export restrictions, Presidential power over international commerce
Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co. 1936 U.S. government as an indispensable party
Valentine v. United States 1936 extradition powers of the executive branch
Wallace v. Cutten 1936 application of the Grain Futures Act
Brown v. Mississippi 1936 coerced confessions by means of violence
Grosjean v. American Press Co. 1936 Freedom of the press, taxation of newspapers