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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | TYLER v. CAIN |
| Date: | 06/28/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-5961 |
| Summary: | The Cage Rule, that a jury instruction is unconstitutional if there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury understood the instruction to allow conviction without proof beyond a reasonable doubt, is not retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Communications Law |
| Title: | LORILLARD TOBACCO CO. v. REILLY |
| Date: | 06/28/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-596 |
| Summary: | The Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, 15 USC 1333, preempts state regulation of advertising or promotion of cigarettes, including regulations governing outdoor and point-of-sale advertising of cigarettes, but not regulation of actual sales or use of cigarettes. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law |
| Title: | IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV. v. ST. CYR |
| Date: | 06/25/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-767 |
| Summary: | Where lawful permament resident would have been eligible for a waiver of deportation under the immigration law in effect when he was convicted, but commenced removal proceedings after AEDPAs and IIRIRAs effective dates, the discretionary relief is still available. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law |
| Title: | CALCANO-MARTINEZ v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV. |
| Date: | 06/25/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-1011 |
| Summary: | Circuit courts do not have jurisdiction to review appeals pursuant to 8 USC 1252(a)(1), but district courts may hear habeas corpus petitions pursuant to 28 USC 2241 in a challenge to the Board of Immigration Appeals determination of ineligibility to apply for a discretionary waiver of deportation under 8 USC 1182(c). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | DUNCAN v. WALKER |
| Date: | 06/18/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-121 |
| Summary: | A federal habeas petition is not an application for State post-conviction or other collateral review within the meaning of 28 USC 2244(d)(2), and thus a first federal habeas petition does not toll the limitation period for subsequent petition. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | ALABAMA v. BOZEMAN |
| Date: | 06/11/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-492 |
| Summary: | Under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, states receiving criminal defendants prior to the termination of a sentence in another state may not arraign the defendant and then return the prisoner before trial. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence |
| Title: | KYLLO v. US |
| Date: | 06/11/01 |
| Case Number: | 99-8508 |
| Summary: | The government's use of a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, is a Fourth Amendment "search" and presumptively unreasonable without a warrant. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | PENRY v. JOHNSON |
| Date: | 06/04/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-6677 |
| Summary: | Where defendant has offered extensive evidence that he was mentally retarded and had been severely abused as a child, the jury may consider and give mitigating effect to that evidence in imposing sentence. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | FLORIDA v. THOMAS |
| Date: | 06/04/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-391 |
| Summary: | Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn, 420 U.S. 469 (1975), sets out the four instances where the U.S. Supreme Court may exercise jurisdiction in the face of further criminal proceedings in state court below. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | LACKAWANNA COUNTY DIST. ATTORNEY v. COSS |
| Date: | 04/25/01 |
| Case Number: | 99-1884 |
| Summary: | Federal postconviction relief is not available when a prisoner challenges a current sentence on the ground that it was enhanced based on an allegedly unconstitutional prior conviction for which the petitioner is no longer in custody. |