Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Constitutional Law : From 10/01/02 To 07/01/03
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law |
| Title: | LAWRENCE v. TEXAS |
| Date: | 06/26/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-102 |
| Summary: | Texas law criminalizing two people of the same sex from engaging in private, consensual sex is unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court's decision in Bowers v. Hardwick is overturned. Individual decisions regarding private, consensual intimate physical relationships are a form of "liberty" protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | WIGGINS v. SMITH |
| Date: | 06/26/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-311 |
| Summary: | An objective review of the performance by a criminal defendant's counsel in a capital case shows that the client's Sixth Amendment rights were violated by counsel's failure to conduct a reasonable investigation of the defendant's social history and mitigating factors. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | STOGNER v. CALIFORNIA |
| Date: | 06/26/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1757 |
| Summary: | California's law extending the statute of limitations for prosecuting sex-related child abuse, which had the effect of revising previously time-barred prosecutions under earlier statutes of limitations, violates the Constitution's Ex-Post Facto Clause, Art. I, section 10, cl. 1. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Per Curiam |
| Title: | NIKE, INC. v. KASKY |
| Date: | 06/26/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-575 |
| Summary: | The court's writ of certiorari is dismissed as being improvidently granted, and the case is sent back to California's state courts for further adjudication. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law |
| Title: | US v. AM. LIBRARY ASS'N, INC. |
| Date: | 06/23/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-361 |
| Summary: | Public libraries' use of internet filtering software does not violate their patrons' First Amendment rights, thus the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) does not induce libraries to violate the Constitution. CIPA does not impose an unconstitutional condition on libraries receiving federal funding. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Education Law |
| Title: | GRATZ v. BOLLINGER |
| Date: | 06/23/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-516 |
| Summary: | The manner in which a university uses racial preferences in undergraduate admissions is not narrowly tailored to achieve an asserted compelling state interest in diversity, and violates the Equal Protection Clause, Title VI, and 42 U.S.C. section 1981. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Education Law |
| Title: | GRUTTER v. BOLLINGER |
| Date: | 06/23/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-241 |
| Summary: | A state law school's narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions, to further a compelling state interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body, is not prohibited by the Equal Protection Clause, Title VI, or 42 U.S.C. section 1981. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Insurance Law, International Law |
| Title: | AM. INS. ASS'N v. GARAMENDI |
| Date: | 06/23/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-722 |
| Summary: | California's Holocaust Victim Insurance Relief Act of 1999, requiring any insurer doing business in that state to disclose information about certain policies sold in Europe between 1920 and 1945, interferes with the President's conduct of the nation's foreign policy and is therefore preempted. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | VIRGINIA v. HICKS |
| Date: | 06/16/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-371 |
| Summary: | The trespass policy in place at a low-income housing development owned by a political subdivision is not facially invalid under the First Amendment overbreadth doctrine, as 1) the policy does not prohibit a substantial amount of protected speech in relation to legitimate applications, and 2) rules apply to all person's entering the development, not just those seeking to engage in expression. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law |
| Title: | OVERTON v. BAZZETTA |
| Date: | 06/16/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-94 |
| Summary: | The fact that prison regulations limiting visitation bear a rational relation to legitimate penological interests suffices to sustain them, regardless of whether prisoners have a constitutional right of association that has survived incarceration. |