One case arising from events in this state saw the Supreme Court rule that the execution of mentally retarded criminals was unconstitutional; that case was Atkins versus this state. Another case originating in this state resulted from the plaintiff's inheritance of land belonging to his uncle, Lord Fairfax, which this state seized; in that case, the Supreme Court, behind Joseph Story's opinion, held that Jay's Treaty superseded that laws of this state in accordance with the supremacy clause. This state was also the defendant in a case which saw the unanimous affirmation of the Supreme Court as the arbiter of disputes between the states and the national government, pursuant to the 1789 Judiciary Act, but upheld the fining of the Cohen brothers for selling lottery tickets. The state from which the case of Martin v. 
One case arising from events in this state saw the Supreme Court rule that the execution of mentally retarded criminals was unconstitutional; that case was Atkins versus this state. Another case originating in this state resulted from the plaintiff's inheritance of land belonging to his uncle, Lord Fairfax, which this state seized; in that case, the Supreme Court, behind Joseph Story's opinion, held that Jay's Treaty superseded that laws of this state in accordance with the supremacy clause. This state was also the defendant in a case which saw the unanimous affirmation of the Supreme Court as the arbiter of disputes between the states and the national government, pursuant to the 1789 Judiciary Act, but upheld the fining of the Cohen brothers for selling lottery tickets. The state from which the case of Martin v. Hunter's Lessee originated, for ten points, identify this state which lost a 14th Amendment challenge against its anti-miscegenation laws brought by Mildred Jeter and her husband Richard Loving.
One case arising from events in this state saw the Supreme Court rule that the execution of mentally retarded criminals was unconstitutional; that case was Atkins versus this state.
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