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Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of Univ. of Va. - 515 U.S. 819 (1995) OCTOBER TERM, 1994 Syllabus ROSENBERGER ET AL. v. RECTOR AND VISITORS OF UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 94-329. Argued March 1, 1995-Decided June 29,1995 Respondent University of Virginia, a state instrumentality, authorizes payments from its Student Activities Fund (SAF) to outside contractors for the printing costs of a variety of publications issued by student groups called "Contracted Independent Organizations" (CIO's). The SAF receives its money from mandatory student fees and is designed to support a broad range of extracurricular student activities related to the University's educational purpose. CIO's must include in their dealings with third parties and in all written materials a disclaimer stating that they are independent of the University and that the University is not responsible for them. The University withheld autho...
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Metro Broadcasting v. FCC - 497 U.S. 547 (1990) U.S. Supreme Court Metro Broadcasting v. FCC, 497 U.S. 547 (1990) Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission Nos. 89-453, 89-700 Argued March 28, 1990 Decided June 27, 1990 497 U.S. 547 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Syllabus These cases consider the constitutionality of two minority preference policies adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). First, the FCC awards an enhancement for minority ownership and participation in management, which is weighed together with all other relevant factors in comparing mutually exclusive applications for licenses for new radio or television broadcast stations. Second, the FCC's so-called "distress sale" policy allows a radio or television broadcaster whose qualifications to hold a license have come into question to transfer that license before the FCC resolves the matter in a noncomparative hearing, but...
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Gratz v. Bollinger - 539 U.S. 244 (2003) OCTOBER TERM, 2002 Syllabus GRATZ ET AL. v. BOLLINGER ET AL. CERTIORARI BEFORE JUDGMENT TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT No. 02-516. Argued April 1, 2003-Decided June 23, 2003 Petitioners Gratz and Hamacher, both of whom are Michigan residents and Caucasian, applied for admission to the University of Michigan's (University) College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) in 1995 and 1997, respectively. Although the LSA considered Gratz to be well qualified and Hamacher to be within the qualified range, both were denied early admission and were ultimately denied admission. In order to promote consistency in the review of the many applications received, the University's Office of Undergraduate Admissions (OUA) uses written guidelines for each academic year. The guidelines have changed a number of times during the period relevant to this litigation. The OUA considers a number of factors in making admissions de...
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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...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : AIR1995SC1236; JT1995(2)SC110; 1995(1)SCALE539; (1995)2SCC161; [1995]1SCR1036
ORDERP.B. Sawant, J.1. Leave granted.It will be convenient to answer the questions of law that arise in the present case, before we advert to the factual controversy between the parties. The questions of law are :(1) Has an organiser or producer of any event a right to get the event telecast through an agency of his choice whether national or foreign?(2) Has such organiser a choice of the agency of telecasting, particularly when the exercise of his right, does not make demand on any of the frequencies owned, commanded or controlled by the Government or the Government agencies like the Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) or Doordarshan (DD)?(3) Can such an organiser be prevented from creating the terrestrial signal and denied the facility of merely uplinking the terrestrial signal to the satellite owned by another agency whether foreign or national?(4) What, if any, are the conditions which can be imposed by the Government department which in the present case is the Ministry of Informat...
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Christian Legal Soc. Chapter of Univ. of Cal., Hastings College of Law v. Martinez - 08-1371 (2010) SYLLABUS OCTOBER TERM, 2009 CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOC. CHAPTER OF UNIV. OF CAL.,HASTINGS COLLEGE OF LAW V. MARTINEZ SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY CHAPTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW, aka HASTINGS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP v . MARTINEZ etal. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit No. 081371.Argued April 19, 2010Decided June 28, 2010 Respondent Hastings College of the Law (Hastings), a school within the University of California public-school system, extends official recognition to student groups through its Registered Student Organization (RSO) program. Several benefits attend this school-approved status, including the use of school funds, facilities, and channels of communication, as well as Hastings name and logo. In exchange for recognition, RSOs must abide by certain conditions. Critical here,...
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Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez - 531 U.S. 533 (2001) OCTOBER TERM, 2000 Syllabus LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION v. VELAZQUEZ ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT No. 99-603. Argued October 4, 2000-Decided February 28, 2001 * The Legal Services Corporation Act authorizes petitioner Legal Services Corporation (LSC) to distribute funds appropriated by Congress to local grantee organizations providing free legal assistance to indigent clients in, inter alia, welfare benefits claims. In every annual appropriations Act since 1996, Congress has prohibited LSC funding of any organization that represented clients in an effort to amend or otherwise challenge existing welfare law. Grantees cannot continue representation in a welfare matter even where a constitutional or statutory validity challenge becomes apparent after representation is well under way. Respondents-lawyers employed by LSC grantees, together with othersfiled suit to declare, in...
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United States v. American Library Assn., Inc. - 539 U.S. 194 (2003) OCTOBER TERM, 2002 Syllabus UNITED STATES ET AL. v. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, INC., ET AL. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA No. 02-361. Argued March 5, 2003-Decided June 23, 2003 Two forms of federal assistance help public libraries provide patrons with Internet access: discounted rates under the E-rate program and grants under the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). Upon discovering that library patrons, including minors, regularly search the Internet for pornography and expose others to pornographic images by leaving them displayed on Internet terminals or printed at library printers, Congress enacted the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which forbids public libraries to receive federal assistance for Internet access unless they install software to block obscene or pornographic images and to prevent minors from accessing material harm...
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Reported in : 1999IIAD(Delhi)777; 78(1999)DLT738; 1999(49)DRJ268
C.M. Nayar, J.1. The present petition has been filed by Zee Telefilms Ltd. for issuance of a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction for quashing the action and decision of the respondents in declining the live telecast of the Lux Zee Cine Award, 1999 on 14th March, 1999 from 8.30 p.m. onwards till the conclusion of the said event and consequently to allot the said time slots to the petitioners. The petitioners further contend that they will abide by the terms and conditions of the rate card etc. issued by the respondents for that purpose. 2. The learned Counsel for the petitioners has contended that the respondents have illegally and arbitrarily not granted permission to telecast the above-said event on DD-I Channel which is vocative of Articles 14, 19(1)(a), 19(1)(g) and 21 of the Constitution of India. It is further submitted that the act of the respondents in declining to provide slots to the petitioners while having already telecast Film fare Manikchand ...
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Bowen v. Kendrick - 487 U.S. 589 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court Bowen v. Kendrick, 487 U.S. 589 (1988) Bowen v. Kendrick No. 87-253 Argued March 30, 1988 Decided June 29, 1988 * 487 U.S. 589 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Syllabus A group of federal taxpayers, clergymen, and the American Jewish Congress (hereinafter appellees) filed this action in Federal District Court, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, and challenging the constitutionality, under the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment, of the Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA or Act), which authorizes federal grants to public or nonprofit private organizations or agencies for services and research in the area of premarital adolescent sexual relations and pregnancy. The Act provides, inter alia, that a grantee must furnish certain types of services, including various types of counseling and education relating to family life and problems associated with adolescent premar...
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