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United States Supreme Court Building
The United States Supreme Court Building, also known as One First Street, is the neoclassical home of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., occupied since 1935.
United States Supreme Court cases, U.S. Reports volumes 100–199
U.S. Reports volumes 100–199 are consecutive bound volumes of the official reporter of United States Supreme Court decisions, spanning the October 1879 Term through October Term 1904.
United States Supreme Court cases, U.S. Reports volumes 400–499
United States Supreme Court cases in U.S. Reports volumes 400–499 collect decisions from the October 1970 Term onward, cited by volume number, "U.S.", and first page.
United States Tax Court
The United States Tax Court, originally the Board of Tax Appeals (1924), is an Article I federal trial court in Washington, D.C. where taxpayers dispute IRS determinations, notably tax deficiencies, without prepaying the disputed tax.
United States ten-dollar bill
The United States ten-dollar bill is a Federal Reserve note bearing Alexander Hamilton's portrait since 1929, redesigned in 2006, with a new Catalyst series $10 due in 2026.
United States Tennis Association
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for tennis in the United States, founded in 1881, which owns and operates the US Open.
United States territorial court
United States territorial courts are Article IV legislative courts Congress establishes for U.S. territories. The District Courts of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have 10-year-term judges, unlike Article III life-tenured district judges.
United States Third Fleet
United States Third Fleet (COMTHIRDFLT), a U.S. Navy numbered fleet established 15 March 1943 under Admiral Halsey, headquartered at Naval Base Point Loma, San Diego; commands Eastern Pacific forces east of the International Date Line, leads RIMPAC, and operates forward under the Third Fleet Forward concept.
United States Treasury security
United States Treasury security: debt issued by the U.S. Treasury to finance the government. Marketable types are bills, notes, bonds, TIPS, and FRNs, sold at auctions and backed by full faith and credit.
United States Treaties and Other International Agreements
United States Treaties and Other International Agreements is the official bound compilation of treaties that collected the individual pamphlet issues of the Treaties and Other International Acts Series.
United States Triumphal Arch
United States Triumphal Arch: proposed 250-foot granite-clad triumphal arch at Memorial Circle, Columbia Island, Washington DC, announced 2026 for the nation's 250th anniversary, modeled on the Arch of Titus and Arc de Triomphe; distinct from the site's unbuilt 1930s column and pavilion monuments.
United States trust law
United States trust law: state-law doctrine governing trustee-beneficiary property arrangements, diverging from English law via settlor-intent primacy, spendthrift trusts, the Claflin doctrine, the Restatements, and the Uniform Trust Code adopted by most states.
United States twenty-dollar bill
The United States twenty-dollar bill is a Federal Reserve note bearing Andrew Jackson's portrait and the White House, dating to the Civil War greenbacks of 1861.
United States two-dollar bill
The United States two-dollar bill is a rarely used Federal Reserve note with Thomas Jefferson on the face and a Declaration of Independence engraving on the reverse.
United States UFO files
United States UFO files: declassified US government records on UFOs/UAP, from Project Blue Book (12,618 sightings, 701 unidentified) and AARO's 2024 historical report to the 2026 PURSUE releases at WAR.GOV/UFO and NARA Record Group 615.
United States Ultralight Association
The United States Ultralight Association (USUA) is an independent, not-for-profit organization established in 1985 to represent ultralight and microlight flight and act as the U.S. representative for FAI competitions.
United States Uniformed Services Oath of Office
The United States Uniformed Services Oath of Office, 5 U.S.C. § 3331, is the oath sworn by commissioned officers and federal civilian officials to support and defend the Constitution, distinct from the enlisted oath of 10 U.S.C. § 502, which adds obedience to orders.
United States v Burns
United States v Burns, [2001] 1 S.C.R. 283 (2001 SCC 7): Supreme Court of Canada case holding that extraditing Canadian citizens Burns and Rafay to Washington without death penalty assurances violates Charter section 7, reversing Kindler.
United States v. Adams
United States v. Adams: caption shared by several unrelated U.S. decisions, including 383 U.S. 39 (1966) on a battery patent, a Commerce Clause child-pornography appeal, and CAAF 25-0217/AR (2025) on post-final habeas jurisdiction.
United States v. American Bell Telephone Co.
United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. is an 1888 Supreme Court decision holding that the federal government may sue in equity to cancel a patent obtained by fraud.
United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls
United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less (413 F. Supp. 1281, E.D. Wis. 1976) is an in rem FHSA forfeiture case over banned clacker ball toys, enforcing 16 CFR 1500.18(a)(7).
United States v. AT&T
A 1974 Justice Department antitrust suit charging AT&T with monopolizing telephone service and equipment, settled in 1982 and ending with the January 1984 breakup of the Bell System.
United States v. Carolene Products Co.
United States v. Carolene Products Co., 304 U.S. 144 (1938): Supreme Court case upholding the 1923 Filled Milk Act under rational basis review, famous for Justice Stone's Footnote Four on discrete and insular minorities.
United States v. Carroll Towing Co.
United States v. Carroll Towing Co. is a 1947 Second Circuit decision by Judge Learned Hand arising from the sinking of the barge Anna C in New York Harbor.
United States v. Cruikshank
United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876), a Supreme Court ruling from the Colfax Massacre holding the First, Second, and Fourteenth Amendments did not reach private violence, gutting Reconstruction-era federal civil rights prosecution.
United States v. Davis (1962)
United States v. Davis, 370 U.S. 65 (1962), a Supreme Court tax case: a husband's transfer of appreciated stock to his ex-wife in a divorce settlement is a taxable event with gain measured by fair market value over basis; wife's attorney fees nondeductible; later superseded by IRC § 1041.
United States v. E. C. Knight Co.
United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (also Sugar Trust Case), 156 U.S. 1 (1895): Supreme Court held 8-1 that the Sherman Antitrust Act did not reach the American Sugar Refining Company's 98 percent monopoly of sugar refining because manufacture is not interstate commerce.
United States v. Handley
United States v. Handley names several federal cases, most notably an Eighth Circuit decision (No. 24-2976, 2026) holding a drug dog's window intrusion was a Fourth Amendment search but affirming denial of suppression under good-faith reliance on United States v. Lyons.
United States v. Johnson (1911)
United States v. Johnson, 221 U.S. 488 (1911), Supreme Court case construing the 1906 Food and Drugs Act; Holmes held misbranding covered false identity statements, not cancer-cure label claims; Hughes dissented.
United States v. Live Nation Entertainment
United States et al. v. Live Nation Entertainment (S.D.N.Y. 1:24-cv-03973) is the 2024 DOJ and state attorneys general antitrust suit alleging Live Nation and Ticketmaster monopolized primary ticketing, concert promotion, and amphitheaters, settled by DOJ in 2026 but won by states at jury trial.