Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Civil Rights : From 10/01/05 To 07/01/06
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Media Law |
| Title: | Beard v. Banks |
| Date: | 06/28/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1739 |
| Summary: | A circuit court judgment holding that a prison policy, forbidding certain inmates any access to newspapers, magazines, and photographs violated the First Amendment, could not be supported as a matter of law is reversed and the case is remanded. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation |
| Title: | Burlington N. & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White |
| Date: | 06/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–259 |
| Summary: | The anti-retaliation provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act does not confine the actions and harms it forbids to those that are related to employment or occur at the workplace. The provision covers those, and only those, employer actions that would have been materially adverse to a reasonable employee or job applicant. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | Woodford v. Ngo |
| Date: | 06/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–416 |
| Summary: | The Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) exhaustion requirement requires proper exhaustion of administrative remedies. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing |
| Title: | Hill v. McDonough |
| Date: | 06/12/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–8794 |
| Summary: | Dismissal of petitioner's challenge to the constitutionality of a three-drug sequence the state of Florida likely would use to execute him by lethal injection is reversed as his claim did not have to be brought as an action for a writ of habeas corpus, but instead could proceed as an action for relief under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 in accordance with Nelson v. Campbell. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Contracts, Government Law, Injury And Tort Law |
| Title: | Hartman v. Moore |
| Date: | 04/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1495 |
| Summary: | A plaintiff in a retaliatory-prosecution action must plead and show the absence of probable cause for pressing the underlying criminal charges. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Bankruptcy Law, Civil Rights, Construction, Contracts, Food & Beverages |
| Title: | Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. MacDonald |
| Date: | 02/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–593 |
| Summary: | A plaintiff cannot state a claim under 42 U.S.C. section 1981 unless he has or would have rights under the existing or proposed contract that he wishes "to make and enforce." Section 1981 plaintiffs must identify injuries flowing from a racially motivated breach of their own contractual relationship, not of someone else's. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury And Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | Arbaugh v. Y & H Corp. |
| Date: | 02/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–944 |
| Summary: | The threshold number of employees for application of Title VII to an employer is an element of a plaintiff's claim for relief, not a jurisdictional issue. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Food & Beverages, Labor & Employment Law, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc. |
| Date: | 02/21/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–379 |
| Summary: | A judgment in an employment racial discrimination suit is vacated where the court of appeals erred in: 1) holding that modifiers or qualifications are necessary in all instances to render a disputed term probative of bias; and 2) in articulating a standard for determining whether the asserted nondiscriminatory reasons for defendant's hiring decisions were pretextual. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Injury And Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets |
| Title: | Will v. Hallock |
| Date: | 01/18/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1332 |
| Summary: | A refusal to apply the Federal Tort Claims Act's judgment bar is not open to collateral appeal. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury And Tort Law |
| Title: | US v. Georgia |
| Date: | 01/10/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1203, 04–1236 |
| Summary: | Insofar as Title II of the American with Disabilities Act creates a private cause of action for damages against states for conduct that actually violates the Fourteenth Amendment, Title II validly abrogates state sovereign immunity. |