Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Government Law : From 10/01/06 To 07/01/07
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law |
| Title: | Morse v. Frederick |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-278 |
| Summary: | Schools may take steps to safeguard those entrusted to their care from speech that can reasonably be regarded as encouraging illegal drug use. Thus, school officials in the case at hand did not violate the First Amendment by confiscating a banner stating "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS" and suspending the student responsible for it. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | Wilkie v. Robbins |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-219 |
| Summary: | In an action brought by the owner and operator of a commercial guest resort against officials of the Bureau of Land Management alleging harassment and intimidation aimed at extracting an easement across plaintiff's private property, denial of qualified immunity for defendants is reversed where the landowner has neither: 1) a private action for damages of the sort recognized in Bivens; nor 2) a claim against the officials in their individual capacities under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | Hein v. Freedom from Religion Found. |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-157 |
| Summary: | In an action brought claiming that conferences held as part of the President's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives program violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, a circuit court's decision reversing a dismissal of the action is reversed as the circuit court erred in holding that the plaintiffs had standing as taxpayers because the conferences at issue were paid for with money appropriated by Congress. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Water Law |
| Title: | Nat'l Ass'n of Homebuilders v. Defenders of Wildlife |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-340, 06–549 |
| Summary: | Section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act does not effectively operate as a tenth criterion on which the EPA's transfer of certain permitting powers to state authorities under section 402(b) of the Clean Water Act must be conditioned. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | Davenport v. Washington Educ. Ass'n |
| Date: | 06/14/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1589 |
| Summary: | A state does not violate the First Amendment by requiring its public-sector unions to receive affirmative authorization from a non-member before spending that non-member's agency fees for election-related purposes. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Government Law, International Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law |
| Title: | Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations v. City of New York |
| Date: | 06/14/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-134 |
| Summary: | The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) does not immunize a foreign government from a law-suit to declare the validity of tax liens on property held by the sovereign for the purpose of housing its employees. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Military Law |
| Title: | US v. Atlantic Research Corp. |
| Date: | 06/11/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-562 |
| Summary: | In the context of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), which allows private parties to recover expenses associated with cleaning up contaminated sites, CERCLA section 107(a) provides so-called potentially responsible parties (PRPs) with a cause of action to recover costs from other PRPs. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Manufacturing |
| Title: | Watson v. Philip Morris Cos., Inc. |
| Date: | 06/11/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1284 |
| Summary: | In the context of the federal officer removal statute, the fact that a federal regulatory agency directs, supervises, and monitors a company's activities in considerable detail does not bring that company within 28 U.S.C. section 1442(a)(1)'s scope so as to permit removal of the action from state court to federal court. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Remedies |
| Title: | Sole v. Wyner |
| Date: | 06/04/07 |
| Case Number: | 06–531 |
| Summary: | In the context of attorney's fee awards in private actions brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and other specified measures designed to secure civil rights, prevailing party status does not attend achievement of a preliminary injunction that is reversed, dissolved, or otherwise undone by the final decision in the same case. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | Office of Sen. Mark Dayton v. Hanson |
| Date: | 05/21/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-618 |
| Summary: | In a suit arising from plaintiff's discharge from employment with former Senator Dayton brought against the Senator's office, invoking the district court's jurisdiction under the Congressional Accountability Act, defendant-office's appeal from a denial of its motion to dismiss based on a claim of immunity is dismissed as the Court lacked jurisdiction under section 412 of the Act, and certiorari is also denied. |