Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Constitutional Law : From 10/01/06 To 07/01/07
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law |
| Title: | Parents Involved in Cmty. Sch. v. Seattle Sch. Dist. No. 1 |
| Date: | 06/28/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-908 |
| Summary: | In cases involving school districts that voluntarily adopted student assignment plans that rely upon race to determine which public schools certain children may attend, court of appeals' decisions upholding the plans are reversed as, under strict scrutiny, the districts failed to show that the interest they sought to achieve justified the means chosen. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Health Law, Sentencing |
| Title: | Panetti v. Quarterman |
| Date: | 06/28/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-6407 |
| Summary: | Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought by a prisoner convicted and sentenced to death in a Texas state court is reversed where: 1) the Supreme Court has statutory authority to adjudicate the claims raised in the habeas application; 2) a state court failed to provide the procedures to which petitioner was entitled under the Constitution; and 3) a federal appellate court employed an improperly restrictive test when it considered petitioner's claim of incompetency on the merits. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law |
| Title: | Morse v. Frederick |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-278 |
| Summary: | Schools may take steps to safeguard those entrusted to their care from speech that can reasonably be regarded as encouraging illegal drug use. Thus, school officials in the case at hand did not violate the First Amendment by confiscating a banner stating "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS" and suspending the student responsible for it. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Elections, Tax-exempt Organizations |
| Title: | Fed. Election Comm'n v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-969, 06-970 |
| Summary: | In an action brought by a nonprofit corporation, Wisconsin Right to Life (WRTL), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief and alleging that the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act section 203's prohibition on corporate election communications was unconstitutional as applied to certain ads, summary judgment for WRTL on its challenge is affirmed. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | Hein v. Freedom from Religion Found. |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-157 |
| Summary: | In an action brought claiming that conferences held as part of the President's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives program violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, a circuit court's decision reversing a dismissal of the action is reversed as the circuit court erred in holding that the plaintiffs had standing as taxpayers because the conferences at issue were paid for with money appropriated by Congress. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Sports Law |
| Title: | Tennessee Secondary Sch. Athletic Ass'n v. Brentwood Academy. |
| Date: | 06/21/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-427 |
| Summary: | The enforcement of a rule prohibiting high school coaches from recruiting middle school athletes does not violate the First Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | Davenport v. Washington Educ. Ass'n |
| Date: | 06/14/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1589 |
| Summary: | A state does not violate the First Amendment by requiring its public-sector unions to receive affirmative authorization from a non-member before spending that non-member's agency fees for election-related purposes. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Remedies |
| Title: | Sole v. Wyner |
| Date: | 06/04/07 |
| Case Number: | 06–531 |
| Summary: | In the context of attorney's fee awards in private actions brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and other specified measures designed to secure civil rights, prevailing party status does not attend achievement of a preliminary injunction that is reversed, dissolved, or otherwise undone by the final decision in the same case. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Erickson v. Pardus |
| Date: | 06/04/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-7317 |
| Summary: | In a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging his constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment were violated by prison officials' termination of a treatment program for his liver condition that they had previously commenced, the Supreme Court grants review on his petition for certiorari and vacates dismissal of the action where the court of appeals' holding that petitioner's allegations were "conclusory" departed in a stark a manner from the pleading standard mandated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | Office of Sen. Mark Dayton v. Hanson |
| Date: | 05/21/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-618 |
| Summary: | In a suit arising from plaintiff's discharge from employment with former Senator Dayton brought against the Senator's office, invoking the district court's jurisdiction under the Congressional Accountability Act, defendant-office's appeal from a denial of its motion to dismiss based on a claim of immunity is dismissed as the Court lacked jurisdiction under section 412 of the Act, and certiorari is also denied. |