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Adair v. United States

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Abrogated
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
208 U.S. 161
Decided
Confirmed treatments
2
Flagged citations read
15 of 15
Citing cases (total)
15
Treatment dates
1941–1949
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. Adair v. United States no longer supports a constitutional right to discriminate against workers because of union membership. All 15 flagged citations have been read.
More on how this was screened

The two confirmed Supreme Court treatments are listed below. Phelps Dodge Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board said intervening decisions had stripped Adair of authority, and Lincoln Federal Labor Union v. Northwestern Iron & Metal Co. expressly rejected its due process reasoning.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

15 later cases cite Adair v. United States; 15 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court held that Congress may prohibit discrimination in hiring and discharge based on union membership, and said Adair had lost its authority on that constitutional question.

    Phelps Dodge Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    The course of decisions in this Court since Adair v. United States, 208 U. S. 161, and Coppage v. Kansas, 236 U. S. 1, have completely sapped those cases of their authority.
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  • The Supreme Court rejected Adair's due process rule that government could not protect workers from discrimination based on union status.

    Lincoln Federal Labor Union v. Northwestern Iron & Metal Co. · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    This Court beginning at least as early as 1934, when the Nebbia case was decided, has steadily rejected the due process philosophy enunciated in the Adair-Coppage line of cases.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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