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
- 90 F1D 488Indiana Novelty Mfg. Co. v. Crocker Chair Co.
- 58 F1D 871Forgie v. Oil-Well Supply Co.
- 90 F1D 440The Zouave
- 81 F1D 706St. Louis Car-Coupler Co. v. National Malleable Castings Co.
- 25 F1D 161Koehler v. Barin
- 53 F1D 790Knox Rock-Blasting Co. v. Drake
- 60 F1D 285Oval Wood Dish Co. v. Sandy Creek, N. Y., Wood Manuf'g Co.
- 80 F1D 293Elgin Co-Operative Butter-Tub Co. v. Creamery Package Manuf'g Co.
- 44 F1D 399Joseph Edward Dredging Co. v. The Nautique
- 53 F1D 670Reddy v. New York Central Lighterage No. 2
- 84 F1D 339Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Co. v. American Wired Hoop Co.
- 36 F1D 264Cartier v. The F. & P. M. No. 2.
- 64 F1D 841Pillsbury v. Pillsbury Washburn Flour Mills Co.
- 36 F1D 324Coats v. Merrick Thread Co.
- 86 F1D 904Menasha Wood Split Pulley Co. v. Dodge
- 12 F1D 707Shaw Stocking Co. v. Mack
- 17 F1D 841Fetter v. Newhall
- 74 F1D 794Gould Coupler Co. v. Trojan Car-Coupler Co.
- 87 F1D 727MacColl v. Knowles Loom Works
- 23 F1D 255The Edwin
- 85 F1D 441Fraser v. Gates Iron Works
- 43 F1D 892Creamery Package Manuf'g Co. v. Elgin Co-op. Butter Tub Co.
- 43 F1D 151O'Sullivan v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
- 21 F1D 651Nederlandsch Americaansche Stoomvart Maatschappy v. The Lepanto
- 85 F1D 778Stuart v. F. G. Stewart Co.
- 82 F1D 428Bonnette Arc Lawn Sprinkler Co. v. Koehler
- 92 F1D 990United States v. Bacharach
- 37 F1D 887Boyd v. Janesville Hay Tool Co.
- 83 F1D 614Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Jeffrey Manuf'g Co.
- 14 F1D 910Starrett v. Athol Machine Co.
- 89 F1D 156United States v. Romard
- 32 F1D 113Sherwood v. Roundtree
- 54 F1D 511Holloway v. Dow
- 51 F1D 455Boston Towboat Co. v. The Charlotte
- 22 F1D 852The Drew
- 71 F1D 426Norton v. The Richard Winslow
- 56 F1D 925Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co.
- 28 F1D 621Hammerschlag Manuf'g Co. v. Judd
- 13 F1D 86Le Fever v. Remington
- 33 F1D 249Acme Hay Harvesting Co. v. Martin
- 26 F1D 637Walker v. The Lotus No. 2
- 5 F1D 593McKay v. McKnight
- 31 F1D 563Devere v. Haverton
- 99 F3D 1150Smith v. St Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company
- 99 F3D 1148United States v. Torres-Perez
- 97 F3D 1449United States v. Fisher
- 97 F3D 125United States v. McHenry