· 3/22/1976
Trevithick v. United States
Citations
- 424 U.S. 972
- 96 S. Ct. 1475
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- stating that \[m]unicipalities cannot challenge state action on federal constitutional grounds because they are not 'persons' [and] . . . cannot invoke the protection of the Fifth or Fourteenth Amendments\
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