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Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1 - 05-908 (2007) SYLLABUS OCTOBER TERM, 2006 PARENTS INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS V.SEATTLE SCHOOL DIST. NO. 1 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES PARENTS INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS v . SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 etal. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit No. 05908.Argued December 4, 2006Decided June 28, 2007 Respondent school districts voluntarily adopted student assignment plans that rely on race to determine which schools certain children may attend. The Seattle district, which has never operated legally segregated schools or been subject to court-ordered desegregation, classified children as white or nonwhite, and used the racial classifications as a tiebreaker to allocate slots in particular high schools. The Jefferson County, Ky., district was subject to a desegregation decree until 2000, when the District Court dissolved the decree after finding that the district...
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Morse v. Frederick - 06-278 (2007) SYLLABUS OCTOBER TERM, 2006 MORSE V. FREDERICK SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES MORSE etal. v . FREDERICK certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit No. 06278.Argued March 19, 2007Decided June 25, 2007 At a school-sanctioned and school-supervised event, petitioner Morse, the high school principal, saw students unfurl a banner stating BONG HiTS 4 JESUS, which she regarded as promoting illegal drug use. Consistent with established school policy prohibiting such messages at school events, Morse directed the students to take down the banner. When one of the students who had brought the banner to the eventrespondent Frederickrefused, Morse confiscated the banner and later suspended him. The school superintendent upheld the suspension, explaining, inter alia , that Frederick was disciplined because his banner appeared to advocate illegal drug use in violation of school policy. Petitioner school board also upheld th...
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Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n - 08-205 (2010) SYLLABUS OCTOBER TERM, 2009 CITIZENS UNITED V. FEDERAL ELECTION COMM'N SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES CITIZENS UNITED v . FEDERAL ELECTIONCOMMISSION appeal from the united states district court for the district of columbia No. 08205.Argued March 24, 2009Reargued September 9, 2009Decided January 21, 2010 As amended by 203 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA), federal law prohibits corporations and unions from using their general treasury funds to make independent expenditures for speech that is an electioneering communication or for speech that expressly advocates the election or defeat of a candidate. 2 U. S.C. 441b. An electioneering communication is any broadcast, cable, or satellite communication that refers to a clearly identified candidate for Federal office and is made within 30 days of a primary election, 434(f)(3)(A), and that is publicly distributed, 11 CFR 100.29(a)(2), which in the case...
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Kurns, et al. v. Railroad Friction Products Corp., et al. NOTE:Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U.S. 321. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus KURNS, executrix of the ESTATE OF CORSON, DECEASED, etal. v. RAILROAD FRICTION PRODUCTS CORP. etal. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the third circuit No. 10879.Argued November 9, 2011Decided February 29, 2012 George Corson worked as a welder and machinist for a railroad carrier. After retirement, Corson was diagnosed with mesothelioma. He and his wife, a petitioner here, sued respondents Railroad Friction Products Corporation and Viad Corp in state court, claiming injury from Corsons exposure to asbe...
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O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz - 482 U.S. 342 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz, 482 U.S. 342 (1987) O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz No. 85-1722 Argued March 24, 1987 Decided June 9, 1987 482 U.S. 342 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT Syllabus Respondents, prison inmates and members of the Islamic faith, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 contending that two policies adopted by New Jersey prison officials prevented them from attending Jumu'ah, a Muslim congregational service held on Friday afternoons, and thereby violated their rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. The first such policy, Standard 853, required inmates in respondents' custody classifications to work outside the buildings in which they were housed and in which Jumu'ah was held, while the second, a policy memorandum, prohibited inmates assigned to outside work from returning to those buildings during the day. The Federal District Court c...
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Cal. Coastal Comm'n v. Granite Rock Co. - 480 U.S. 572 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court Cal. Coastal Comm'n v. Granite Rock Co., 480 U.S. 572 (1987) California Coastal Comm'n v. Granite Rock Co. No. 86-1200 Argued December 2, 1986 Decided March 24, 1987 480 U.S. 572 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus The Mining Act of 1872 authorizes a private citizen to enter federal lands to explore for mineral deposits, to perfect a mining claim, and to secure a patent to the land by complying with the requirements of the Act and regulations promulgated thereunder. Appellee Granite Rock Co. holds unpatented mining claims on federally owned lands in a national forest located in California. In accordance with federal regulations, Granite Rock obtained approval from the Forest Service in 1981 of its 6-year plan for mining limestone on the lands, and began to mine shortly thereafter. In 1983, the California Coastal Commission (Commission), acting pursuant ...
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Pac. Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Haslip - 499 U.S. 1 (1991) U.S. Supreme Court Pac. Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Haslip, 499 U.S. 1 (1991) Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Haslip No. 89-1279 Argued Oct. 3, 1990 Decided March 4, 1991 No. 89-1279 499 U.S. 1 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA Syllabus After respondents' health insurance lapsed when one Ruffin, an agent for petitioner insurance company and another, unaffiliated insurance company, misappropriated premiums issued by respondents' employer for payment to the other insurer, respondents filed an action for damages in state court, claiming fraud by Ruffin and seeking to hold petitioner liable on a respondeat superior theory. Following the trial court's charge instructing the jury that it could award punitive damages if, inter alia, it determined there was liability for fraud, the jury, among other things, returned a verdict for respondent Haslip of over $1 million against petitioner and Ruffin, which sum includ...
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Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. - 505 U.S. 504 (1992) OCTOBER TERM, 1991 Syllabus CIPOLLONE, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF CIPOLLONE v. LIGGETT GROUP, INC., ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT No. 90-1038. Argued October 8, 1991-Reargued January 13, 1992Decided June 24, 1992 Section 4 of the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act (1965 Act) required a conspicuous label warning of smoking's health hazards to be placed on every package of cigarettes sold in this country, while 5 of that Act, captioned "Preemption," provided: "(a) No statement relating to smoking and health, other than the [ 4] statement ... , shall be required on any cigarette package," and "(b) No [such] statement ... shall be required in the advertising of any cigarettes the packages of which are labeled in conformity with" 4. Section 5(b) was amended by the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1969 (1969 Act) to specify: "No requirement or...
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Lee v. Weisman - 505 U.S. 577 (1992) OCTOBER TERM, 1991 Syllabus LEE ET AL. v. WEISMAN, PERSONALLY AND AS NEXT FRIEND OF WEISMAN CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT No. 90-1014. Argued November 6, 1991-Decided June 24, 1992 Principals of public middle and high schools in Providence, Rhode Island, are permitted to invite members of the clergy to give invocations and benedictions at their schools' graduation ceremonies. Petitioner Lee, a middle school principal, invited a rabbi to offer such prayers at the graduation ceremony for Deborah Weisman's class, gave the rabbi a pamphlet containing guidelines for the composition of public prayers at civic ceremonies, and advised him that the prayers should be nonsectarian. Shortly before the ceremony, the District Court denied the motion of respondent Weisman, Deborah's father, for a temporary restraining order to prohibit school officials from including the prayers in the ceremony. Deborah and her fam...
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LORD HOPE The appellants are insurance companies, whose business includes the writing of employers' liability insurance policies. They undertake to indemnify the employer in respect of any liability incurred by it for harm or injury arising out of the employer's negligence. They have brought these proceedings to challenge the lawfulness of an Act of the Scottish Parliament which was passed on 11 March 2009, received the Royal Assent on 17 April 2009 and came into force on 17 June 2009. It is the Damages (Asbestos-related Conditions) (Scotland) Act 2009 ("the 2009 Act") which provides that asymptomatic pleural plaques, pleural thickening and asbestosis shall constitute, and shall be treated as always having constituted, actionable harm for the purposes of an action of damages for personal injury.It is no secret that the purpose of the 2009 Act was to reverse the decision of the House of Lords in Rothwell v Chemical and Insulating Co Ltd [2007] UKHL 39, [2008] AC 281 ("Rothwell"). In tha...
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