Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Constitutional Law : From 10/01/01 To 07/01/02
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Education Law, Health Law |
| Title: | BD. OF EDUC. OF INDEP. SCH. DIST. NO. 92 OF POTTAWATAMIE COUNTY v. EARLS |
| Date: | 06/27/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-332 |
| Summary: | A school district policy, requiring students participating in extracurricular activities to consent to drug testing, reasonably furthers the district's important interest in preventing and deterring drug use by students, and does not violate the Fourth Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Elections, Judges and the Judiciary |
| Title: | REPUBLICAN PARTY OF MINNESOTA v. WHITE |
| Date: | 06/27/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-521 |
| Summary: | A canon of judicial conduct, prohibiting a candidate for judicial office from "announcing his or her views on disputed legal or political issues," violates the First Amendment; the canon is not "narrowly tailored" to serve impartiality, the pursuit of which is not a compelling state interest. |
| 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: | Constitutional Law, Education Law |
| Title: | ZELMAN v. SIMMONS-HARRIS |
| Date: | 06/27/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1751 |
| Summary: | A program giving educational choices and aid to certain students attending both religious and non-religious public and private schools, enacted for the valid secular purpose of providing educational assistance to poor children, is one of true "private choice" and does not offend the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | BE&K CONSTR. CO. v. NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD. |
| Date: | 06/24/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-518 |
| Summary: | The NLRB's definition of a retaliatory suit (by an employer against a union) as one brought with a motive to interfere with the exercise of protected rights under the National Labor Relations Act, is invalid because it covers a substantial amount of genuine petitioning. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law |
| Title: | UTAH v. EVANS |
| Date: | 06/20/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-714 |
| Summary: | The Census Bureau's use of "hot-deck imputation" in a population count, giving the state of Utah one less Congressional representative than if the Bureau had filled information gaps with zero counts, does not constitute impermissible "sampling" under 13 U.S.C. section 195, which requires a decennial census, and does not violate the Constitution's Census Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | CHRISTOPHER v. HARBURY |
| Date: | 06/20/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-394 |
| Summary: | A claim by a woman, whose husband was allegedly killed by Guatemalan officers paid by the CIA, did not state a cause of action for constitutional denial of judicial access based on the government's alleged concealment of information regarding the incident, where the underlying cause of action and remedy compromised were not identified. |
| 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: | Constitutional Law |
| Title: | WATCHTOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOC'Y OF NEW YORK, INC. v. VILLAGE OF STRATTON |
| Date: | 06/17/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1737 |
| Summary: | Provisions of a village ordinance, making it a misdemeanor to engage in door-to-door neighborhood "canvassing" without first registering with the mayor's office and receiving a permit, violate the First Amendment as it applies to religious proselytizing, anonymous political speech, and the distribution of hand bills. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | MCKUNE v. LILE |
| Date: | 06/10/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1187 |
| Summary: | The Sexual Abuse Treatment Program serves the vital penological purpose of rehabilitation, and offering inmates minimal incentives to participate does not amount to compelled self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment. |