Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Constitutional Law : From 10/01/05 To 07/01/06
Number of summaries found: 21
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Habeas Corpus, International Law, Military Law |
| Title: | Hamdan v. Rumsfeld |
| Date: | 06/29/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–184 |
| Summary: | In a challenge brought by a Guantanamo detainee, a judgment of a court of appeals reversing an earlier grant of habeas relief is reversed where the military commission convened to try petitioner lacks the power to proceed because its structure and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Geneva Conventions. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Media Law |
| Title: | Beard v. Banks |
| Date: | 06/28/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1739 |
| Summary: | A circuit court judgment holding that a prison policy, forbidding certain inmates any access to newspapers, magazines, and photographs violated the First Amendment, could not be supported as a matter of law is reversed and the case is remanded. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Elections, Government Law |
| Title: | Randall v. Sorrell |
| Date: | 06/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1528, 04–1530, 04–1697 |
| Summary: | A decision by a court of appeals holding that a Vermont campaign finance statute's contribution limits were constitutional and that its expenditure limits may be constitutional is reversed and the matter remanded for further proceedings. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing |
| Title: | Hill v. McDonough |
| Date: | 06/12/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–8794 |
| Summary: | Dismissal of petitioner's challenge to the constitutionality of a three-drug sequence the state of Florida likely would use to execute him by lethal injection is reversed as his claim did not have to be brought as an action for a writ of habeas corpus, but instead could proceed as an action for relief under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 in accordance with Nelson v. Campbell. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | Garcetti v. Ceballos |
| Date: | 05/30/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–473 |
| Summary: | When public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, they are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the Constitution does not insulate their communications from employer discipline. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Manufacturing, Tax Law |
| Title: | DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno |
| Date: | 05/15/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1704 |
| Summary: | In a suit brought by taxpayers alleging that their local and state tax burdens were increased by certain taxbreaks for a car manufacturer, a judgment finding that a state tax credit violated the Commerce Clause is vacated where plaintiffs had no standing to challenge the state franchise tax credit. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence |
| Title: | Holmes v. South Carolina |
| Date: | 05/01/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1327 |
| Summary: | A criminal defendant's federal constitutional rights are violated by an evidence rule under which the defendant may not introduce evidence of third-party guilt if the prosecution has introduced forensic evidence that, if believed, strongly supports a guilty verdict. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law |
| Title: | Jones v. Flowers |
| Date: | 04/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1477 |
| Summary: | For purposes of due process, when mailed notice of a tax sale is returned unclaimed, a state must take additional reasonable steps to attempt to provide notice to the property owner before selling his/her property, if it is practicable to do so. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Contracts, Government Law, Injury And Tort Law |
| Title: | Hartman v. Moore |
| Date: | 04/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1495 |
| Summary: | A plaintiff in a retaliatory-prosecution action must plead and show the absence of probable cause for pressing the underlying criminal charges. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Admiralty, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Insurance Law |
| Title: | N. Ins. Co. of New York v. Chatham County, Georgia |
| Date: | 04/25/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1618 |
| Summary: | An entity that does not qualify as an "arm of the State" for Eleventh Amendment purposes cannot assert sovereign immunity as a defense to an admiralty suit. |