Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Civil Rights : From 10/01/01 To 07/01/02
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | HOPE v. PELZER |
| Date: | 06/27/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-309 |
| Summary: | Corrections officers were not entitled to qualified immunity for acts of handcuffing an inmate to a hitching post, because a reasonable corrections officer would have known that such punishment was unlawful under the Eighth Amendment, based on the lack of any safety concern or emergency, and obvious cruelty inherent in such a practice. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | ATKINS v. VIRGINIA |
| Date: | 06/20/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-8452 |
| Summary: | Executions of mentally retarded criminals are "cruel and unusual punishments" prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Education Law |
| Title: | GONZAGA UNIV. v. DOE |
| Date: | 06/20/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-679 |
| Summary: | The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act's non-disclosure of information provisions create no personal right to enforce under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, enforcement of individual rights. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Remedies |
| Title: | BARNES v. GORMAN |
| Date: | 06/17/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-682 |
| Summary: | Punitive damages are not available in private suits brought under section 202 of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against the disabled by public entities, and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination against the disabled by recipients of federal funding, including private organizations. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | CHEVRON USA, INC. v. ECHAZABAL |
| Date: | 06/10/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1406 |
| Summary: | The Americans with Disabilities Act does not preclude an EEOC regulation which allows an employer's defense that a worker's disability on the job would present a direct threat to his or her health. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | NAT'L R.R. PASSENGER CORP. v. MORGAN |
| Date: | 06/10/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1614 |
| Summary: | A Title VII plaintiff must file his discriminatory or retaliatory employment claims within the appropriate 180- or 300- day period, but a hostile work environment charge is not time barred if all acts underlying the claim are part of the same unlawful practice, and at least one act falls within the filing period; equitable doctrines may toll or limit either period. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | ALABAMA v. SHELTON |
| Date: | 05/20/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1214 |
| Summary: | A suspended sentence which may result in deprivation of liberty may not be imposed unless the defendant was accorded the assistance of counsel in the prosecution for the crime charged. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law |
| Title: | LAPIDES v. BD. OF REGENTS OF UNIV. SYS. OF GEORGIA |
| Date: | 05/13/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-298 |
| Summary: | A state waives its Eleventh Amendment immunity when it voluntarily invokes federal court jurisdiction by removing a case from state court to federal court. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | EDELMAN v. LYNCHBURG COLLEGE |
| Date: | 03/19/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1072 |
| Summary: | The EEOC's relation-back regulation is an unassailable interpretation of section 706 of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | SWIERKIEWICZ v. SOREMA N.A. |
| Date: | 02/26/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1853 |
| Summary: | An employment discrimination complaint need not contain specific facts establishing a prima facie case under the framework set forth in McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792, 802, but instead must contain only "a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief" per Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 8(a)(2). |