On June 27, 1997, Earl Pitts was sentenced by a federal judge to 27 years in prison for spying for Moscow both before and after the fall of the Soviet Union. Prosecutors had requested only 24½ years. A former FBI agent, Pitts had been charged with
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Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russianintelligence services against the United States for 22 years from 1979 to 2001. As
Continue reading >>Flast v. Cohen, 392 U.S. 83 (1968),[1] was a United States Supreme Court case holding that a taxpayer has standing to sue the government to prevent an unconstitutional use of taxpayer funds.
Continue reading >>Dames & Moore v. Regan, 453 U.S. 654 (1981) was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with President Jimmy Carter's Executive Order 12170, which froze Iranian assets in the United States on November 14, 1979 in response to the Iran hostage crisis whi
Continue reading >>Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court of the United States Argued February 1114, 1856 Reargued December 1518, 1856 Decided March 6, 1857 Full case name Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford [1] Citations 60 U.S. 393 ( more ) 19 Howard 393; 15 L. Ed. 691; 1856 WL 87
Continue reading >>Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court of the United States Argued April 12, 1896 Decided May 18, 1896 Full case name Homer A. Plessy v. Ferguson Citations 163 U.S. 537 ( more ) 16 S. Ct. 1138; 41 L. Ed. 256; 1896 U.S. LEXIS 3390 Prior history Ex parte Plessy,
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