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Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Government Law : From 10/01/02 To 07/01/03

Number of summaries found: 10
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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).

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