This is a full-text archive of U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1754 to 2005, and U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal from 1950 to 2007 (F.2d vol. 178 to F.3d vol. 491).

This collection was originally prepared and made available to the public through the efforts of Public.Resource.Org, Inc., whose logo appears at the bottom of each decision. We are deeply indebted to them for their work. The only visible difference from the Public Resource.Org originals is the inclusion of hypertext links in statute and case citations.

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