Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Constitutional Law : From 10/01/03 To 07/01/04
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law |
| Title: | ASHCROFT v. ACLU |
| Date: | 06/29/04 |
| Case Number: | 03-218 |
| Summary: | The Court upheld a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of the Child Online Pornography Act, because the statute likely violates the First Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence |
| Title: | US v. PATANE |
| Date: | 06/28/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-1183 |
| Summary: | Failure to give as suspect full Miranda warnings does not require the suppression of the physical fruits of the suspect's unwarned, voluntary statements. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Habeas Corpus, Military Law |
| Title: | HAMDI v. RUMSFELD |
| Date: | 06/28/04 |
| Case Number: | 03-6696 |
| Summary: | Where a U.S. citizen was detained for allegedly fighting against the U.S. in Afghanistan as an enemy combatant, due process demands that he be given a meaningful opportunity to contest the factual basis for his detention before a neutral decision maker. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | CHENEY v. U.S. DIST. COURT FOR DIST. OF COLUMBIA |
| Date: | 06/24/04 |
| Case Number: | 03-475 |
| Summary: | In a case concerning the National Energy Policy Development Group's alleged failure to comply with the Federal Advisory Committee Act's open meeting and disclosure requirements, the Court declined to compel the Vice President to comply with discovery requests, but remanded to the court below for further consideration. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | BLAKELY v. WASHINGTON |
| Date: | 06/24/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-1632 |
| Summary: | Because the facts supporting the defendant's exceptionally harsh sentence were neither admitted by the defendant, nor found by a jury, the sentence violated defendant's Sixth amendment right to trial by jury. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence |
| Title: | TENNARD v. DRETKE |
| Date: | 06/24/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-10038 |
| Summary: | In a capital murder case involving a defendant with an IQ of 67, a COA should have issued, because a reasonable jurist could have found the district court's assessment of constitutional claims, relating to defendant's low IQ, debatable or wrong. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Tax Law |
| Title: | HIBBS v. WINN |
| Date: | 06/14/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-1809 |
| Summary: | Tax Injunction Act did not bar plaintiffs' challenge to a state tax law providing for credits for payments made to school tuition organizations that provided scholarships to private school students, which plaintiffs challenged as violating the Establishment Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law |
| Title: | ELK GROVE UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST. v. NEWDOW |
| Date: | 06/14/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-1624 |
| Summary: | A father did not have standing to challenge the "under God" portion of the Pledge of Allegiance as violating the Establishment Clause on behalf of his daughter, because he lacked "next friend" status under California Law. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, International Law |
| Title: | REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA v. ALTMAN |
| Date: | 06/07/04 |
| Case Number: | 03-13 |
| Summary: | The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act applies retroactively to actions of foreign states that occurred before the FSIA's 1976 enactment. The expropriation exception to the act would allow a private party to recover paintings from Austria, which were seized by Nazis in 1948. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law |
| Title: | CITY OF LITTLETON v. Z. J. GIFTS |
| Date: | 06/07/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-1609 |
| Summary: | City's adult business license ordinance was found to meet the First Amendment's requirements that such a licensing scheme ensure prompt judicial review of an administrative decision denying a license. |