Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Constitutional Law : From 10/01/00 To 07/01/01
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | PALAZZOLO v. RHODE ISLAND |
| Date: | 06/28/01 |
| Case Number: | 99-2047 |
| Summary: | A landowner may challenge state rules or regulations under the Takings Clause even if the enactment took place prior to transfer of title. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Elections |
| Title: | FED. ELECTION COMM'N v. COLORADO REPUBLICAN FED. CAMPAIGN COMM. |
| Date: | 06/25/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-191 |
| Summary: | States may restrict a party's coordinated expenditures to minimize circumvention of the Federal Election Campaign Act's contribution limits because coordinated expenditures are not like independent expenditures. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Agriculture, Constitutional Law |
| Title: | US v. UNITED FOODS INC. |
| Date: | 06/25/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-276 |
| Summary: | Forced subsidy for generic advertising is a violation of the First Amendment where the advertising is not merely ancillary to a more comprehensive program restricting marketing autonomy, but instead is the principal object of the regulatory scheme. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law |
| Title: | GOOD NEWS CLUB v. MILFORD CENT. SCH. |
| Date: | 06/11/01 |
| Case Number: | 99-2036 |
| Summary: | Government actors may not exclude speech from a limited public forum on the basis of the religious nature of the speech, because the exclusion constitutes unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination without justification by the Establishment Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Immigration Law |
| Title: | NGUYEN v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV. |
| Date: | 06/11/01 |
| Case Number: | 99-2071 |
| Summary: | 8 USC 1409(a), setting forth citizenship requirements for one born out of wedlock and abroad to a citizen father and a noncitizen mother, does not violate equal protection simply by use of gender specific terms because of the biological difference between the parents. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence |
| Title: | KYLLO v. US |
| Date: | 06/11/01 |
| Case Number: | 99-8508 |
| Summary: | The government's use of a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, is a Fourth Amendment "search" and presumptively unreasonable without a warrant. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law |
| Title: | KANSAS v. COLORADO |
| Date: | 06/11/01 |
| Case Number: | 105 |
| Summary: | Money damages for violation of the Arkansas River Compact do not violate the Eleventh Amendment because the parties to the compact are states, not citizens, and the unliquidated nature of the money damages does not bar an award of prejudgment interest. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | PENRY v. JOHNSON |
| Date: | 06/04/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-6677 |
| Summary: | Where defendant has offered extensive evidence that he was mentally retarded and had been severely abused as a child, the jury may consider and give mitigating effect to that evidence in imposing sentence. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Communications Law, Constitutional Law |
| Title: | BARTNICKI v. VOPPER |
| Date: | 05/21/01 |
| Case Number: | 99-1687 |
| Summary: | Where journalists played no part in the unlawful interception of private communications and the substance of the communications regarded a matter of public interest, the First Amendment protects the disclosure of the communications even where journalists knew that the communications were intercepted unlawfully. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Judges and the Judiciary |
| Title: | US v. HATTER |
| Date: | 05/21/01 |
| Case Number: | 99-1978 |
| Summary: | The Constitution's Compensation Clause prevents the government from collecting certain Social Security taxes from a small number of federal judges because amended 42 USC 410(a)(5)(C)–(G) singled out some federal employees for special treatment. |