Gelpcke v. City of Dubuque
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Gelpcke v. City of Dubuque is an 1864 U.S. Supreme Court case known for its influential ruling on the protection of contract rights against retroactive changes in state law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gelpcke v. City of Dubuque canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20633593 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gelpcke v. City of Dubuque Context triple: [Noah H. Swayne, notableCase, Gelpcke v. City of Dubuque]
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A.
South Dakota v. Dole
South Dakota v. Dole is a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s power to condition federal highway funds on states adopting a minimum drinking age of 21, helping define the scope of the federal spending power.
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B.
Birchfield v. North Dakota
Birchfield v. North Dakota is a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held warrantless breath tests are permissible as searches incident to arrest for drunk driving, but warrantless blood tests generally are not.
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C.
DeBoer v. Snyder
DeBoer v. Snyder was a federal court case challenging Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban that became one of the key cases consolidated into the landmark Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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D.
Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr
Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr is a 1996 U.S. Supreme Court decision that extended First Amendment protections to independent contractors against retaliatory termination by government entities for their protected speech.
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E.
Gebhart v. Belton
Gebhart v. Belton was a landmark Delaware school segregation case whose rulings in favor of Black students became one of the four consolidated cases decided in Brown v. Board of Education, contributing to the Supreme Court’s rejection of “separate but equal” in public education.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gelpcke v. City of Dubuque Target entity description: Gelpcke v. City of Dubuque is an 1864 U.S. Supreme Court case known for its influential ruling on the protection of contract rights against retroactive changes in state law.
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A.
South Dakota v. Dole
South Dakota v. Dole is a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s power to condition federal highway funds on states adopting a minimum drinking age of 21, helping define the scope of the federal spending power.
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B.
Birchfield v. North Dakota
Birchfield v. North Dakota is a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held warrantless breath tests are permissible as searches incident to arrest for drunk driving, but warrantless blood tests generally are not.
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C.
DeBoer v. Snyder
DeBoer v. Snyder was a federal court case challenging Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban that became one of the key cases consolidated into the landmark Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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D.
Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr
Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr is a 1996 U.S. Supreme Court decision that extended First Amendment protections to independent contractors against retaliatory termination by government entities for their protected speech.
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E.
Gebhart v. Belton
Gebhart v. Belton was a landmark Delaware school segregation case whose rulings in favor of Black students became one of the four consolidated cases decided in Brown v. Board of Education, contributing to the Supreme Court’s rejection of “separate but equal” in public education.
- F. None of above. chosen
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