Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Government Law : From 10/01/02 To 07/01/03
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | NEVADA DEP'T OF HUMAN RES. v. HIBBS |
| Date: | 05/27/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1368 |
| Summary: | Employees of the state of Nevada may recover money damages in the event of the state's failure to comply with the family-care provision of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, and such a claim is not barred by the Eleventh Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law |
| Title: | INYO COUNTY v. PAIUTE-SHOSHONE INDIANS OF THE BISHOP CMTY. |
| Date: | 05/19/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-281 |
| Summary: | An Indian tribe did not qualify as a "person" who may sue under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, under the circumstances, in an action asserting sovereign immunity from state court processes arising from a county investigation into alleged off-reservation crimes. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Autos, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Per Curiam |
| Title: | CITY OF LOS ANGELES v. DAVID |
| Date: | 05/19/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-1212 |
| Summary: | A city's failure to provide a sufficiently prompt hearing to recover money paid for a parking violation did not amount to a due process violation, as a 30 day delay was no more than routine. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Tax Law |
| Title: | FRANCHISE TAX BD. OF CALIFORNIA v. HYATT |
| Date: | 04/23/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-42 |
| Summary: | The Full Faith and Credit Clause (U.S. Const. Art. IV, section 1) does not require Nevada to give full faith and credit to California's statutes providing its tax collection agency with immunity from suit. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | JINKS v. RICHLAND COUNTY |
| Date: | 04/22/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-258 |
| Summary: | 28 U.S.C. section 1367(d), requiring that a state statute of limitations be tolled for the period during which a cause of action had previously been pending in federal court, does not exceed Congress's enumerated powers and is constitutional as applied to claims brought against a state's political subdivisions. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law |
| Title: | BRANCH v. SMITH |
| Date: | 03/31/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1437 |
| Summary: | District court properly enjoined a Mississippi court's proposed congressional re-districting plan, as that plan had not been pre-cleared and had no prospect of being pre-cleared in time for the 2002 election, and the district court properly re-fashioned its own congressional reapportionment plan under 2 U.S.C. section 2c. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Construction, Elections, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | CITY OF CUYAHOGA FALLS v. BUCKEYE CMTY. HOPE FOUND. |
| Date: | 03/25/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1269 |
| Summary: | A city did not violate the Equal Protection Clause by submitting a facially-neutral referendum petition to voters, which called for repeal of a municipal housing ordinance authorizing construction of a low-income housing complex, absent a showing of racially discriminatory intent. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Health Law |
| Title: | COOK COUNTY v. US EX REL CHANDLER |
| Date: | 03/10/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1572 |
| Summary: | Local governments are "persons" amenable to qui tam actions under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. section 3729. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | US v. WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE |
| Date: | 03/04/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1067 |
| Summary: | The Court of Federal Claims had Indian Tucker Act jurisdiction over a tribe's suit against the U.S. for breach of fiduciary duty to manage land and improvements held in trust for the tribe, but occupied by the government. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Government Benefits, Government Law |
| Title: | WASHINGTON STATE DEP'T OF SOCIAL & HEALTH SERVS. v. GUARDIANSHIP ESTATE OF KEFFELER |
| Date: | 02/25/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1420 |
| Summary: | A state's use of Social Security benefits to reimburse itself for some of its initial expenditures does not violate a Social Security Act provision protecting benefits from "execution, levy, attachment, garnishment, or other legal process", 42 U.S.C. section 407(a). |