Irvine v. California , 347 U.S. 128 (decided February 8, 1953): state (though not federal government) can use illegal means to obtain evidence; defendant still has remedy of suing officers under 42 U.S.C. §1983 (police had locksmith make extra key for door, installed hidden microphone, ran wire through roof, and recorded conversations as to gambling) (though never overruled, this case can’t still be good law) Partmar Corp. v. Paramount Pictures Theatres Corp. , 347 U.S. 89 (d

Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States , 348 U.S. 272 (decided February 7, 1955): Alaskan tribe could not recover from United States value of trees taken from their land because they were “nomadic” and Congress had not recognized their ownership of that land Hepburn v. Griswold , 75 U.S. 603 (decided February 7, 1870): defendant could not pay off promissory note with new paper money created by Congress in Civil War emergency (previously all money was in coin); Due Process viola

District of Columbia v. Gallaher , 124 U.S. 505 (decided February 6, 1888): District of Columbia is bound by post-contract modifications to sewer project (including increased payment) agreed to by predecessor body which was then legislated out of existence (this was the Board of Public Works, which according to Wikipedia spent D.C. almost into bankruptcy; Congress abolished it in 1874) (project turned the open-sewer Tiber Creek into an underground river, like the River Fleet

Queen v. Hepburn , 11 U.S. 290 (decided February 5, 1813): Marshall holds that while hearsay can support a claim to property (for example as to boundaries) it can’t as to freedom; statements of people who were now dead that ancestor of mother and child petitioning for their freedom came from England and not Africa were properly excluded; Duvall, in his only written dissent in 24 years on the Court, points out that hearsay on this issue is allowed in his home state of Maryland