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Selected Opinions by Justice Black:

Topic:Immigration & National Security

Congress has no power under the Constitution to divest a person of their U.S.

citizenship, absent their voluntary renunciation of it. (This decision overruled Perez.)

Texas (1965)

Topic:Criminal Trials & Prosecutions

The right granted to a defendant by the Sixth Amendment to confront the witnesses against them, which includes the right of cross-examination, is a fundamental right essential to a fair trial and is made obligatory on the states by the Fourteenth Amendment.

v. Stiffel Co. (1964)

Topic:Patents

When design and mechanical patents are invalid for want of invention, a state unfair competition law cannot be used to get an injunction against copying the product or an award of damages for such copying.

Sanders (1964)

Topic:Voting &