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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | McCreary County v. ACLU |
| Date: | 06/27/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-1693 |
| Summary: | A county's manifest objective may be dispositive for determining whether a display of the Ten Commandments in courthouses violates the Establishment Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | Van Orden v. Perry |
| Date: | 06/27/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-1500 |
| Summary: | The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment allows the display of a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments on the Texas State Capitol grounds. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Law, Transportation |
| Title: | Mid-Con Freight Sys. v. Michigan Pub. Serv. Comm'n |
| Date: | 06/20/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-1234 |
| Summary: | A Michigan law which imposes an annual fee of $100.00 upon each Michigan license-plated truck that is "operating entirely in interstate commerce" is not preempted by 49 U.S.C. section 14504(b) since the fee requirement is not the kind of "State registration requirement" to which the federal statute refers. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Law, Transportation |
| Title: | Am. Trucking Ass'n, Inc. v. Michigan Pub. Serv. Comm'n |
| Date: | 06/20/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-1230 |
| Summary: | A flat $100 fee that Michigan charges trucks engaging in intrastate commercial hauling does not violate the dormant Commerce Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | San Remo Hotel v. City and County of San Francisco |
| Date: | 06/20/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-340 |
| Summary: | Federal courts may not craft an exception to the full faith and credit statute, 28 U.S.C. section 1738, for claims brought under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law |
| Title: | Clingman v. Beaver |
| Date: | 05/23/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-37 |
| Summary: | Oklahoma's semiclosed primary system does not violate the right to freedom of association since any burden it imposes is minor and justified by legitimate state interests. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Communications Law, Government Law, Injury And Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams |
| Date: | 03/22/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-1601 |
| Summary: | An individual may not enforce the limitations on local zoning authority, set forth in section 332(c)(7) of the Communications Act, through an action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law, Military Law |
| Title: | TENET v. DOE |
| Date: | 03/02/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-1395 |
| Summary: | Plaintiffs' suit, asserting estoppel and due process claims for the CIA's alleged failure to provide them with financial assistance it had promised in return for their espionage services during the Cold War, is barred by Totten v. US, 92 U.S. 105 (1876), which prohibits suits against the Government based on covert espionage agreements. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Contracts, Government Law, Health Law, Indian Law |
| Title: | CHEROKEE NATION OF OKLA. v. LEAVITT |
| Date: | 03/01/05 |
| Case Number: | 02-1472 |
| Summary: | The government's promise to pay "contract support costs" that two Indian Tribes incurred for health services that a government agency, the Indian Health Service, would otherwise have provided, is legally binding. |