Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Civil Procedure : From 10/01/03 To 07/01/04
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, International Law, Military Law |
| Title: | RASUL v. BUSH |
| Date: | 06/28/04 |
| Case Number: | 03-334 |
| Summary: | United States courts have jurisdiction to consider challenges to the legality of the detention of foreign nationals captured abroad in connection with hostilities in Afghanistan, and incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | CHENEY v. U.S. DIST. COURT FOR DIST. OF COLUMBIA |
| Date: | 06/24/04 |
| Case Number: | 03-475 |
| Summary: | In a case concerning the National Energy Policy Development Group's alleged failure to comply with the Federal Advisory Committee Act's open meeting and disclosure requirements, the Court declined to compel the Vice President to comply with discovery requests, but remanded to the court below for further consideration. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, International Law, International Trade |
| Title: | INTEL CORP. v. ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. |
| Date: | 06/21/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-572 |
| Summary: | In an anti-trust case, USC Section 1782(a) authorizes, but does not require a district court to compel discovery requested by an adverse party to be used in a case brought before the Directorate-General of the Commission of European Communities. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law |
| Title: | AETNA HEALTH INC. v. DAVILA |
| Date: | 06/21/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-1845 |
| Summary: | Plaintiff's state causes of action, alleging HMO's failure to exercise ordinary care for the plaintiff's health by failing to cover the cost of certain medical services, was completely preempted by ERISA section 502, and removable to federal court. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Tax Law |
| Title: | HIBBS v. WINN |
| Date: | 06/14/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-1809 |
| Summary: | Tax Injunction Act did not bar plaintiffs' challenge to a state tax law providing for credits for payments made to school tuition organizations that provided scholarships to private school students, which plaintiffs challenged as violating the Establishment Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law |
| Title: | ELK GROVE UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST. v. NEWDOW |
| Date: | 06/14/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-1624 |
| Summary: | A father did not have standing to challenge the "under God" portion of the Pledge of Allegiance as violating the Establishment Clause on behalf of his daughter, because he lacked "next friend" status under California Law. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure |
| Title: | GRUPO DATAFLUX v. ATLAS GLOBAL GROUP, L.P. |
| Date: | 05/17/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-1689 |
| Summary: | A party's postfiling change in citizenship cannot cure a lack of subject-matter jurisdiction that existed at the time of filing in a diversity action. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury And Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | JONES v. R.R. DONNELLEY & SONS CO. |
| Date: | 05/03/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-1205 |
| Summary: | A cause of action "arises under an Act of Congress enacted" after December 1, 1990 - and therefore is governed by 28 U.S.C. section 1658's four-year statute of limitations - if the claim was made possible by a post-1990 enactment. Because petitioners' causes of action arose under the Civil Rights Act of 1991, they are not time-barred. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure |
| Title: | KONTRICK v. RYAN |
| Date: | 01/14/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-819 |
| Summary: | A debtor forfeits the right to challenge a creditor's objection to discharge as untimely under Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 4004 if the debtor does not raise that rule's time limitation before the bankruptcy court reaches the merits of the creditor's objection to discharge. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law |
| Title: | FREW v. HAWKINS |
| Date: | 01/14/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-628 |
| Summary: | Enforcement of a consent decree that springs from a federal dispute and that furthers the objectives of federal law does not violate the Eleventh Amendment. |