Important Supreme Court Rulings

March 1st, 2012

From the AZRKBA list:
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Here are seldom mentioned Supreme Court rulings of vast importance:

Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 US 105: “No State shall convert a liberty
into a privilege, license it, and charge a fee therefor.”

Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham Alabama, 373 US 262: “If the State
converts a right (liberty) into a privilege, the citizen can ignore the
license and fee and engage in the right (liberty) with impunity.”

Boyd v. United States, 116 US 616: “The Court is to protect against any
encroachment of constitutionally secured rights (liberty).”

Miranda v. Arizona, 384 US 436: “Where rights (liberty) secured by the
Constitution are involved, there can be no legislation which would
abrogate (abolish) them.”

Norton v. Shelby County, 118 US 425: “An unconstitutional act is not
law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection;
it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation as though it had
never been passed.”