Today in Supreme Court History: August 18, 1920

8/18/1920: The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified

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[The Margrave of Azilia]

...and produced only a handful of Supreme Court cases...in the sense that the application of the 19th Amendment in itself didn't produce nearly the same amount of judicial controversy as (oh, say) the 14th.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Hortonville Joint School Dist. No. 1 v. Hortonville Education Ass'n, 423 U.S. 1301 (decided August 18, 1975): Rehnquist refuses to stay Wisconsin Supreme Court order holding that teachers fired for going on illegal strike were denied due process; believes that cert would not be granted (in fact it was, and the Court ruled against the teachers, holding that review of terminations by the local school board was adequate due process, 426 U.S. 482, 1976)