Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Civil Rights : From 10/01/06 To 07/01/07
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law |
| Title: | Parents Involved in Cmty. Sch. v. Seattle Sch. Dist. No. 1 |
| Date: | 06/28/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-908 |
| Summary: | In cases involving school districts that voluntarily adopted student assignment plans that rely upon race to determine which public schools certain children may attend, court of appeals' decisions upholding the plans are reversed as, under strict scrutiny, the districts failed to show that the interest they sought to achieve justified the means chosen. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law |
| Title: | Morse v. Frederick |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-278 |
| Summary: | Schools may take steps to safeguard those entrusted to their care from speech that can reasonably be regarded as encouraging illegal drug use. Thus, school officials in the case at hand did not violate the First Amendment by confiscating a banner stating "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS" and suspending the student responsible for it. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | Wilkie v. Robbins |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-219 |
| Summary: | In an action brought by the owner and operator of a commercial guest resort against officials of the Bureau of Land Management alleging harassment and intimidation aimed at extracting an easement across plaintiff's private property, denial of qualified immunity for defendants is reversed where the landowner has neither: 1) a private action for damages of the sort recognized in Bivens; nor 2) a claim against the officials in their individual capacities under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Sports Law |
| Title: | Tennessee Secondary Sch. Athletic Ass'n v. Brentwood Academy. |
| Date: | 06/21/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-427 |
| Summary: | The enforcement of a rule prohibiting high school coaches from recruiting middle school athletes does not violate the First Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Remedies |
| Title: | Sole v. Wyner |
| Date: | 06/04/07 |
| Case Number: | 06–531 |
| Summary: | In the context of attorney's fee awards in private actions brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and other specified measures designed to secure civil rights, prevailing party status does not attend achievement of a preliminary injunction that is reversed, dissolved, or otherwise undone by the final decision in the same case. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Erickson v. Pardus |
| Date: | 06/04/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-7317 |
| Summary: | In a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging his constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment were violated by prison officials' termination of a treatment program for his liver condition that they had previously commenced, the Supreme Court grants review on his petition for certiorari and vacates dismissal of the action where the court of appeals' holding that petitioner's allegations were "conclusory" departed in a stark a manner from the pleading standard mandated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc. |
| Date: | 05/29/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1074 |
| Summary: | In a suit raising a pay discrimination claim under Title VII, a court of appeals' decision reversing a judgment and award in plaintiff's favor is affirmed where plaintiff's claim was untimely because a pay-setting decision is a discrete act that occurs at a particular point in time, and the later effects of past discrimination do not restart the clock for filing an EEOC charge. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Los Angeles County v. Rettele |
| Date: | 05/21/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-605 |
| Summary: | In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought by residents arising from a police search and detention under circumstances in which police obtained a valid warrant to search a house, but were unaware that the suspects being sought had previously moved out, a court of appeals' ruling against petitioners-officers is reversed where respondents' constitutional rights were not violated when petitioners ordered Caucasian respondents out of bed while they were naked, despite the fact that the suspects being sought were of a different race. The orders by the police to the occupants, in the context of the lawful search in this case, were permissible, and perhaps necessary, to protect the safety of the deputies and the residents' detention was not unreasonable either. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Services |
| Title: | United Haulers Ass'n, Inc. v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Mgmt. Auth. |
| Date: | 04/30/07 |
| Case Number: | 05–1345 |
| Summary: | In a suit brought by a trade association and individual haulers under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that certain counties' flow control ordinances involving solid waste disposal violated the Commerce Clause, the ordinances are upheld as, while the ordinances benefit a clearly public facility, they treat in-state private business interests exactly the same as out-of-state ones, and thus do not "discriminate against interstate commerce" for purposes of the dormant Commerce Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | Scott v. Harris |
| Date: | 04/30/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1631 |
| Summary: | A police officer's attempt to terminate a dangerous high-speed car chase that threatens the lives of innocent by-standers does not violate the Fourth Amendment, even when it places the fleeing motorist at risk of serious injury or death. |