The Global Syndicator - united states supreme court cases

Broadrick v. Oklahoma

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:15:01 +0000

Broadrick v. Oklahoma, 413 U.S. 601 (1973) is a United States Supreme Court decision upholding an Oklahoma statute which prohibited state employees from engaging in partisan political activities. Broadrick is often cited to enunciate the test for a facial overbreadth challenge, that "the overbreadth of a statute must not only be real, but substantial as well, judged in relation to the statute's plainly legitimate sweep."

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Broadrick v. Oklahoma, 413 U.S. 601 (1973) (opinion full text).

United States v. Feola

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:26:50 +0000

United States v. Feola 420 U.S. 671 (1975) is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that conspiracy to assault a federal officer, like the substantive crime of assaulting a federal officer, doesn't require knowledge that the victims were federal officers.

The case involved a drug "rip-off" in which the defendant and his co-conspirators agreed to sell sugar as heroin to unsuspecting buyers. They agreed that if the buyers discovered their ruse, they would jump the buyers and take their money. The sellers didn't know that the buyers were all undercover federal narcotics agents. Although the sellers tried to assault one of the agents, another agent pulled out his revolver and the agents eventually arrested the sellers.

Moore v. East Cleveland

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:28:11 +0000

Moore V. City Of East Cleveland, Ohio

Supreme Court Of The United States 1977 May 31, 1977

Negusie v. Mukasey

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:47:43 +0000

Negusie v. Mukasey is an ongoing legal case in which the United States Supreme Court has to decide whether the bar on asylum in the United States for persecutors applies applicants for asylum who have been the target of credible threats of harm or torture in their home countries if they refuse to further participate in the acts of persecution. Daniel Negusie, who says he was forced to mistreat prisoners in Eritrea under threat of execution, may apply for asylum because he only persecuted others under duress.

New York v. Belton

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:54:08 +0000

New York v. Belton, 453 U.S. 454 (1981), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that when a policeman has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, he may, as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest, search the passenger compartment of that automobile. Therefore, Belton extended the so-called “Chimel rule” of searches incident to a lawful arrest, established in Chimel v. California (1969), to vehicles.

Belton has since been critizised by legal scholars, allegedly failing to meet the constitutional standard of probable cause. It might get overturned in the 2008 decision of Arizona v. Gant.

Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:51:52 +0000

Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Docket No. 07-1239, was a case heard before the United States Supreme Court on October 8, 2008 concerning the United States Navy ability to use sonar during drills causing possible harm to whales and other marine mammals. High Court to Settle Dispute Over Navy Sonar's Impact on Whales

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George W. Bush & Sons Co. v. Maloy

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:08:29 +0000

George W. Bush & Sons Co. v. Maloy, 267 U.S. 317 (1925), Full text of the decision courtesy of Findlaw.com was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that the state statute under which the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) issued certificates of public convenience and necessity to common carriers engaged in interstate commerce violated the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution.

Background

The Maryland General Assembly in 1922 amended the PSC statutes to require common carriers to obtain a certificate from the PSC based upon whether the proposed motor carrier service was "good for the public convenience and necessity." George W. Bush & Sons, which operated a truck line between Delaware and cities in eastern Maryland, was directed by the PSC to apply for a certificate. After a hearing, the PSC denied the application. The company then appealed to the state courts up through the Maryland Court of Appeals, arguing that the state statute violated the Commerce Clause by attempting to regulate interstate commerce, but the state courts upheld the denial of the certificate by the PSC.

Robinson v. Florida

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:37:21 +0000

Robinson v. Florida, 378 U.S. 153 (1964)Full text of the decision courtesy of Findlaw.com, was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the convictions of several white and African American persons who were refused service at a restaurant based upon a prior Court decision, holding that a Florida regulation requiring a restaurant that employed or served persons of both races to have separate lavatory rooms resulted in the state becoming entangled in racial discriminatory activity in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Cruz v. Beto

Wed, 28 May 2008 04:52:39 +0000

Cruz v. Veto, 405 U.S. 319 (1972) is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court upheld a Free Exercise claim on the basis of the allegations that the state of Texas had discriminated against a Buddhist prisoner by "denying him a reasonable opportunity to pursue his Buddhist faith comparable to that offered other prisoners adhering to conventional religious precepts."

External links

Full text of the decision at findlaw.com

McArthur v. Scott

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:21:03 +0000

McArthur v. Scott, , regarded a suit brought to contest a will which directed land to be conveyed to or divided among remaindermen at the expiration of a particular estate, are to be presumed, unless clearly controlled by other provisions, to relate to the beginning of enjoyment by remaindermen, and not to the vesting of the title in them. McArthur v. Scott, 113 U.S. 340 (1885) Justia.com

Dakota County v. Glidden

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:15:10 +0000

Dakota County v. Glidden, , was a motion to dismiss a suit issued in aid of a railroad. Judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant brought a writ of error to reverse it. Subsequently to the judgment, the county settled with the plaintiff and other bondholders, by giving them new bonds bearing a less rate of interest, and the old bonds, which were the cause of action in this suit, were surrendered and destroyed. These facts were brought before this Court by affidavits and transcripts from the county records, accompanied by a motion to dismiss the writ of error. Dakota County v. Glidden, 113 U.S. 222 (1885) Justia.com

Price v. Pennsylvania R. Co.

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:04:44 +0000

Price v. Pennsylvania R. Co., , was a case where the plaintiff sued the defendant for the loss of her husband by a death which the jury found, by a special verdict, to be caused by the negligence of the company's servant or servants. Price v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 113 U.S. 218 (1885) Justia.com

The Global Syndicator - united states supreme court cases

Broadrick v. Oklahoma

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United States v. Feola

Moore v. East Cleveland

Negusie v. Mukasey

New York v. Belton

Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council

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George W. Bush & Sons Co. v. Maloy

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Robinson v. Florida

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Cruz v. Beto

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McArthur v. Scott

Dakota County v. Glidden

Price v. Pennsylvania R. Co.

Sicurella v. United States

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Gonzales v. United States

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Dickinson v. United States

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