Circle, Alaska
2,428 opinions mention this place
Circle (also called Circle City) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 100. Circle is 260 km (162 miles) northeast of Fairbanks at the end of the Steese Highway. Circle was named by miners in the late 1800s who believed that the town was on the Arctic Circle. The Arctic Circle is actually about 80 km (50 miles) north of Circle. Circle is also the unofficial northern terminus of the Pan-American Highway. Every February, Circle City hosts a checkpoint for the long-distance Yukon Quest sled dog race.
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Landmark decisions involving Circle
- Saenz v. Roe (1999)526 U.S. 489
- Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996)517 U.S. 44
- United States v. Lopez (1995)514 U.S. 549
- Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios (1984)464 U.S. 417
- Spinelli v. United States (1969)393 U.S. 410overruled
- Parker v. Ellis (1960)362 U.S. 574overruled
- United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n (1944)322 U.S. 533
- Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)310 U.S. 586overruled
- Rose v. Himley (1808)8 U.S. 241overruled
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Opinions mentioning Circle
- 91 F1D 243Stuart v. F. G. Stewart Co.
- 12 F1D 725Sawyer v. Miller
- 72 F1D 277Ypsilanti Dress-Stay Manuf'g Co. v. Van Valkenburg
- 94 F1D 651Dennison Mfg. Co. v. Thomas Mfg. Co.
- 59 F1D 636Devermann v. The Dorothy
- 36 F1D 260Campbell v. Mayor of New York
- 19 F1D 815Searls v. Merriam
- 89 F1D 510The Newfoundland
- 92 F1D 357Proctor & Gamble Co. v. Globe Refining Co.
- 72 F1D 671L. Schreiber & Sons Co. v. Grimm
- 46 F1D 288Consolidated Bunging Apparatus Co. v. Metropolitan Brewing Co.
- 73 F1D 994Wilson v. New United States Cattle-Ranch Co.
- 58 F1D 227Peoria Target Co. v. Cleveland Target Co.
- 60 F1D 411Appleton Manuf'g Co. v. Star Manuf'g Co.
- 72 F1D 274Edison Electric Light Co. v. Electric Engineering & Supply Co.
- 58 F1D 585Krauss v. Jos. R. Peebles' Sons Co.
- 80 F1D 712Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Ohio Brass Co.
- 82 F1D 490Green v. Compagnia Generale Italiana Di Navigation
- 69 F1D 371McCormick Harvesting Mach. Co. v. C. Aultman & Co.
- 90 F1D 415Norton v. Jensen
- 28 F1D 189Cohansey Glass Manuf'g Co. v. Wharton
- 85 F1D 776Hiram Walker & Sons v. Hockstaeder
- 10 F1D 483The De Smet
- 27 F1D 263Dana v. Parker
- 35 F1D 71Thomas v. Williams
- 58 F1D 205Untermeyer v. Freund
- 29 F1D 358Royer v. Coupe
- 31 F1D 149Ewart Manuf'g Co. v. Bridgeport Malleable Iron Co.
- 86 F1D 212California Fig-Syrup Co. v. Clinton E. Worden & Co.
- 18 F1D 43Parker & Whipple Co. v. Yale Clock Co.
- 41 F1D 390Boston Electri Co. v. Holtzer
- 77 F1D 869N. K. Fairbank Co. v. R. W. Bell Manuf'g Co.
- 91 F1D 978Rubber Tire Wheel Co. v. Columbia Pneumatic Wagon Wheel Co.
- 51 F1D 292Dixon-Woods Co. v. Pfeifer
- 23 F1D 803The Professor Morse
- 12 F1D 721Sprague v. Smith & Griggs Manuf'g Co.
- 32 F1D 94Ausable Horse-Nail Co. v. Essex Horse-Nail Co.
- 63 F1D 856Latham v. Hamilton & Merriman Co.
- 2 F1D 793Wolf v. Schooner Bertie Calkins
- 42 F1D 661Rice v. Ege
- 60 F1D 560Greenwood v. Town of Westport
- 58 F1D 182Northwestern Stove Repair Co. v. Lee
- 64 F1D 724United States v. Debs
- 47 F1D 908The Canisteo
- 76 F1D 823Baldwin v. Kresl
- 13 F1D 82United States v. Kellar
- 92 F1D 521The Defiance
- 60 F1D 579Van Etten v. Town of Westport