Justice McReynolds delivered the Court's opinion holding that Nebraska's prohibition on teaching modern foreign languages to children who had not passed the eighth grade, as applied to Meyer, violated the liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Supreme Court of the United States, 1923
Published opinions from 1923. The case name opens the case page.
1923 opinions
The Supreme Court reversed the dismissal of a writ of habeas corpus sought by five Black men under death sentences for a murder committed during the 1919 Phillips County, Arkansas racial violence, where the petition alleged a trial lasting about forty-five minutes with a five-minute verdict, tortured witnesses…
The Court held that the suit arose under federal patent law, granting jurisdiction, and that an instrument conveying only the right to exclude others without the right to make, use, and vend does not constitute a valid patent assignment.