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Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Civil Procedure : From 10/01/03 To 07/01/04

Number of summaries found: 10
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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.

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