Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Government Law : From 10/01/05 To 07/01/06
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Habeas Corpus, International Law, Military Law |
| Title: | Hamdan v. Rumsfeld |
| Date: | 06/29/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–184 |
| Summary: | In a challenge brought by a Guantanamo detainee, a judgment of a court of appeals reversing an earlier grant of habeas relief is reversed where the military commission convened to try petitioner lacks the power to proceed because its structure and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Geneva Conventions. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, International Law |
| Title: | Sanchez-LLamas v. Oregon |
| Date: | 06/28/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–10566, 05–51 |
| Summary: | In the context of detained foreign nationals, even assuming that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations creates judicially enforceable rights, suppression is not an appropriate remedy for a violation of Article 36 of the Convention, and a state may apply its regular rules of procedural default to Article 36 claims. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Elections, Government Law |
| Title: | League of United Latin Am. Citizens v. Perry |
| Date: | 06/28/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–204 |
| Summary: | In the context of challenges to Texas' new congressional districting map, Texas' redrawing of a district's lines amounted to vote dilution violative of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Elections, Government Law |
| Title: | Randall v. Sorrell |
| Date: | 06/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1528, 04–1530, 04–1697 |
| Summary: | A decision by a court of appeals holding that a Vermont campaign finance statute's contribution limits were constitutional and that its expenditure limits may be constitutional is reversed and the matter remanded for further proceedings. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law |
| Title: | Arlington Cent. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Murphy |
| Date: | 06/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–18 |
| Summary: | An Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provision that permits a court to "award reasonable attorneys' fees as part of the costs" to prevailing parents, does not authorize prevailing parents to recover expert fees. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Construction, Criminal Law & Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | Rapanos v. US |
| Date: | 06/19/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1034 |
| Summary: | In cases involving certain state wetlands lying near ditches or man-made drains that eventually empty into traditional navigable waters, judgments against petitioners-landowners are vacated and remanded for further proceedings as to whether the specific wetlands at issue possessed a significant nexus with navigable waters for purposes of regulation under the Clean Water Act (CWA). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Government Law, Injury And Tort Law, Insurance Law |
| Title: | Empire Healthchoice Assurance, Inc. v. McVeigh |
| Date: | 06/15/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–200 |
| Summary: | Dismissal, for want of subject-matter jurisdiction, of petitioner-carrier's suit seeking recovery from the proceeds of state-court litigation for a beneficiary's medical care is affirmed since 28 U.S.C. section 1331, authorizing jurisdiction over "civil actions arising under the...laws...of the United States," did not encompass the carrier's action. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Evidence, Government Law, Tax Law |
| Title: | Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp. |
| Date: | 06/05/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–433 |
| Summary: | A judgment reversing dismissal of respondent's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) claims against a competing company is reversed in part where a 18 U.S.C. section 1962(c) claim did not satisfy the requirement of proximate causation with regards to a claim that respondent lost sales due to petitioners' decreased prices, which allegedly resulted from their tax fraud. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Aerospace & Defense, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Whitman v. Dep't of Transp. |
| Date: | 06/05/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1131 |
| Summary: | A judgment holding that there was no jurisdiction to consider claims brought by an employee alleging that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) tested him for drug and alcohol in a nonrandom manner in violation of his constitutional rights and the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) is vacated and remanded for further consideration of issues of jurisdiction and preclusion. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | Garcetti v. Ceballos |
| Date: | 05/30/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–473 |
| Summary: | When public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, they are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the Constitution does not insulate their communications from employer discipline. |