Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Constitutional Law : From 10/01/04 To 07/01/05
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | McCreary County v. ACLU |
| Date: | 06/27/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-1693 |
| Summary: | A county's manifest objective may be dispositive for determining whether a display of the Ten Commandments in courthouses violates the Establishment Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury And Tort Law |
| Title: | Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales |
| Date: | 06/27/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-278 |
| Summary: | An individual who has obtained a state-law restraining order does not have a constitutionally protected property interest in having the police enforce the restraining order when they have probable cause to believe it has been violated. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | Van Orden v. Perry |
| Date: | 06/27/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-1500 |
| Summary: | The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment allows the display of a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments on the Texas State Capitol grounds. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | Halbert v. Michigan |
| Date: | 06/23/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-10198 |
| Summary: | The Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses require the appointment of counsel for defendants, convicted on their pleas, who seek access to first-tier review in the Michigan Court of Appeals. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | Kelo v. City of New London |
| Date: | 06/23/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-108 |
| Summary: | Defendant-City's proposed disposition of plaintiff's property qualifies as a "public use" within the meaning of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Law, Transportation |
| Title: | Mid-Con Freight Sys. v. Michigan Pub. Serv. Comm'n |
| Date: | 06/20/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-1234 |
| Summary: | A Michigan law which imposes an annual fee of $100.00 upon each Michigan license-plated truck that is "operating entirely in interstate commerce" is not preempted by 49 U.S.C. section 14504(b) since the fee requirement is not the kind of "State registration requirement" to which the federal statute refers. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Law, Transportation |
| Title: | Am. Trucking Ass'n, Inc. v. Michigan Pub. Serv. Comm'n |
| Date: | 06/20/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-1230 |
| Summary: | A flat $100 fee that Michigan charges trucks engaging in intrastate commercial hauling does not violate the dormant Commerce Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | San Remo Hotel v. City and County of San Francisco |
| Date: | 06/20/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-340 |
| Summary: | Federal courts may not craft an exception to the full faith and credit statute, 28 U.S.C. section 1738, for claims brought under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | Miller-El v. Dretke |
| Date: | 06/13/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-9659 |
| Summary: | Denial of habeas relief to plaintiff is reversed where prosecutors in his capital murder trial made peremptory strikes of potential jurors based on race. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | Wilkenson v. Austin |
| Date: | 06/13/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-495 |
| Summary: | The procedures by which Ohio's New Policy classifies prisoners for placement at its Supermax facility provides prisoners with sufficient protection to comply with the Due Process Clause. |