Supreme Court of the United States, 1917

The Supreme Court affirmed the Missouri Supreme Court’s construction of its statute that treats service on the state insurance superintendent as personal service on a corporation that has filed a power of attorney, holding that the construction does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment due process nor the Full Faith…

The Supreme Court affirmed three convictions under the White Slave Traffic Act (Mann Act), holding that the statute reaches interstate transportation of women for prostitution, debauchery, or concubinage even absent pecuniary gain or commercialized vice, and that as so construed it is a valid exercise of Congress's…