AH Court case game thread

[Æsir]

Basically in the same vein as the popular quote game thread; Someone posts the name of a court case (i e "John Smith v. Jane Doe") and the next poster writes a short description of what it was about and how the court involved ruled. For example, borrowing from OTL;

Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board

A United States Supreme Court decision involving Florida voters during the 2000 presidential election. In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court requested clarification from the Florida Supreme Court regarding a decision it had made. Shortly after the Florida Supreme Court provided those clarifications, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved the election in favor of George W. Bush over Al Gore in the case of Bush v. Gore.

I'll start off;

King, Lincoln, Seward, et al v. The Crown

 

[Evan]

King, Lincoln, Seward, et al v. The Crown

United Kingdom court case over the Alabama Claims, filed by Ambassador Preston King in the British courts on behalf of himself and American leaders as individuals, when his previous case United States v. The Crown was dismissed due to royal prerogative. Ambassador King started this judicial strategy after the British Cabinet had refused to even discuss compensation for violations of neutrality for two years following the capture of Richmond and execution of Jefferson Davis.

Ex Parte Hitler

 

[DD951]

United Kingdom court case over the Alabama Claims, filed by Ambassador Preston King in the British courts on behalf of himself and American leaders as individuals, when his previous case United States v. The Crown was dismissed due to royal prerogative. Ambassador King started this judicial strategy after the British Cabinet had refused to even discuss compensation for violations of neutrality for two years following the capture of Richmond and execution of Jefferson Davis.

Ex Parte Hitler

Following his conviction & death sentence on multiple counts of crimes against humanity & war crimes by the Nuremburg Tribunal, which tried him and other top Nazi leaders in 1946, former Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (who had been captured by a patrol from E 2/506 PIR of the US 101st Airborne Division near Bertchesgarden in May 1945 while attempting to flee to a mountain redoubt held by SS forces for a last stand) petitioned the US Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the legitimacy of the trial as failing to follow proper judicial procedures due to its ad hoc nature and lacking jurisdiction as it took place after Germany's unconditional surrender. In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court, relying on the precedents it had set in the case of Gen. Yamashita of the Japanese Army, rejected the petition, finding the trial to be within the scope of the military commissions that Congress had authorized the President to create for the trial of suspected war criminals. (The court declined to rule on Hitler's claim that he had also been mistreated in captivity, apparently arising out of the alleged but unproven actions of a Jewish solider in the patrol, one PFC Liebgott, who supposedly severely beat Hitler after his arrest.)

United States v. Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, Judah Benjamin et. al.