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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Health Law, Sentencing |
| Title: | Panetti v. Quarterman |
| Date: | 06/28/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-6407 |
| Summary: | Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought by a prisoner convicted and sentenced to death in a Texas state court is reversed where: 1) the Supreme Court has statutory authority to adjudicate the claims raised in the habeas application; 2) a state court failed to provide the procedures to which petitioner was entitled under the Constitution; and 3) a federal appellate court employed an improperly restrictive test when it considered petitioner's claim of incompetency on the merits. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Erickson v. Pardus |
| Date: | 06/04/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-7317 |
| Summary: | In a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging his constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment were violated by prison officials' termination of a treatment program for his liver condition that they had previously commenced, the Supreme Court grants review on his petition for certiorari and vacates dismissal of the action where the court of appeals' holding that petitioner's allegations were "conclusory" departed in a stark a manner from the pleading standard mandated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Education Law, Health Law |
| Title: | Winkelman v. Parma City Sch. Dist. |
| Date: | 05/21/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-983 |
| Summary: | The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) grants parents independent, enforceable rights, which are not limited to procedural and reimbursement-related matters, but encompass the entitlement to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) for their child. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law |
| Title: | Gonzales v. Carhart |
| Date: | 04/18/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-380, 05-1382 |
| Summary: | In a challenge to the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act which proscribes a particular method of ending fetal life in the later stages of pregnancy, judgments enjoining enforcement of the Act are reversed as respondents did not demonstrate that the Act, as a facial matter, is void for vagueness, or that it imposes an undue burden on a woman's right to abortion based on its overbreadth or lack of a health exception. |