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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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United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation SYLLABUS OCTOBER TERM, 2010 UNITED STATES V. JICARILLA APACHE NATION SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES UNITED STATES v . JICARILLA APACHE NATION certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the federal circuit No. 10382.Argued April 20, 2011Decided June 13, 2011 Respondent Jicarilla Apache Nations (Tribe) reservation contains natural resources that are developed pursuant to statutes administered by the Interior Department. Proceeds from these resources are held by the United States in trust for the Tribe. The Tribe filed a breach-of-trust action in the Court of Federal Claims (CFC), seeking monetary damages for the Governments alleged mismanagement of the Tribes trust funds in violation of 25 U. S.C. 161162a and other laws. During discovery, the Tribe moved to compel production of certain documents. The Government agreed to release some of the documents, but asserted that others were protected by, inter alia, the attorney-c...
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..... fully carried out until every available clue has been run down and all witnesses examined in every proper way to find if a crime has been committed." united states v. stone, 429 f.2d 138, 140 (ca2 1970). such an investigation may be triggered by tips, rumors, evidence proffered by the prosecutor, or the personal knowledge of the grand jurors. costello .....
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Laird v. Tatum - 408 U.S. 1 (1972) U.S. Supreme Court Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1 (1972) Laird v. Tatum NO. 71-288 Argued March 27, 1972 Decided June 26, 1972 408 U.S. 1 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Syllabus Prior to its being called upon in 1967 to assist local authorities in quelling civil disorders in Detroit, Michigan, the Department of the Army had developed only a general contingency plan in connection with its limited domestic mission under 10 U.S.C. 331. In response to the Army's experience in the various civil disorders it was called upon to help control during 1967 and 1968, Army Intelligence established a data-gathering system, which respondents describe as involving the "surveillance of lawful civilian political activity." Held: Respondents' claim that their First Amendment rights are chilled due to the mere existence of this data-gathering system does not constitute a justiciable controversy on the basi...
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Moore v. City of East Cleveland - 431 U.S. 494 (1977) U.S. Supreme Court Moore v. City of East Cleveland, 431 U.S. 494 (1977) Moore v. City of East Cleveland No. 75-6289 Argued November 2, 1976 Decided May 31, 1977 431 U.S. 494 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, CUYAHOGA COUNTY Syllabus Appellant lives in her East Cleveland, Ohio, home with her son and two grandsons (who are first cousins). An East Cleveland housing ordinance limits occupancy of a dwelling unit to members of a single family, but defines "family" in such a way that appellant's household does not qualify. Appellant was convicted of a criminal violation of the ordinance. Her conviction was upheld on appeal over her claim that the ordinance is unconstitutional. Appellee city contends that the ordinance should be sustained under Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas, 416 U. S. 1 , which upheld an ordinance imposing limits on the types of groups that could occupy a single dwelling unit. Held: The judgment i...
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Kimel v. Florida Bd. of Regents - 528 U.S. 62 (1999) OCTOBER TERM, 1999 Syllabus KIMEL ET AL. v. FLORIDA BOARD OF REGENTS ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT No. 98-791. Argued October 13, 1999-Decided January 11,2000* The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA or Act), as amended, makes it unlawful for an employer, including a State, "to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise discriminate against any individual ... because of such individual's age." 29 U. S. C. 623(a)(I). Petitioners, three sets of plaintiffs, filed suit under the ADEA against respondents, their state employers. Petitioners' suits sought money damages for respondents' alleged discrimination on the basis of age. Respondents in all three cases moved to dismiss the suits on the basis of the Eleventh Amendment. The District Court in one case granted the motion to dismiss, while in each of the remaining cases the District Court d...
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Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc. - 427 U.S. 50 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc., 427 U.S. 50 (1976) Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc. No. 75-312 Argued March 24, 1976 Decided June 24, 1976 427 U.S. 50 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Respondent operators of two adult motion picture theaters brought this action against petitioner city officials for injunctive relief and a declaratory judgment of unconstitutionality regarding two 1972 Detroit zoning ordinances that amended an "Anti-Skid Row Ordinance" adopted 10 years earlier. The 1972 ordinances provide that an adult theater may not (apart from a special waiver) be located within 1,000 feet of any two other "regulated uses" or within 500 feet of a residential area. The term "regulated uses" applies to 10 different kinds of establishments in addition to adult theaters, including adult book stores, cabarets, bars, taxi dance halls, and hotel...
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In re Primus - 436 U.S. 412 (1978) U.S. Supreme Court In re Primus, 436 U.S. 412 (1978) In re Primus No. 77-56 Argued January 16, 1978 Decided May 30, 1978 436 U.S. 412 APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH CAROLINA Syllabus Appellant, a practicing lawyer in South Carolina who was also a cooperating lawyer with a branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), after advising a gathering of women of their legal rights resulting from their having been sterilized as a condition of receiving public medical assistance, informed one of the women in a subsequent letter that free legal assistance was available from the ACLU. Thereafter, the disciplinary Board of the South Carolina Supreme Court charged and determined that appellant, by sending such letter, had engaged in soliciting a client in violation of certain Disciplinary Rules of the State Supreme Court, and issued a private reprimand. The court adopted the Board's findings and increased the sanction to a public repriman...
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Bell v. Wolfish - 441 U.S. 520 (1979) U.S. Supreme Court Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520 (1979) Bell v. Wolfish No. 77-1829 Argued January 16, 1979 Decided May 14, 1979 441 U.S. 520 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Syllabus Respondent inmates brought this class action in Federal District Court challenging the constitutionality of numerous conditions of confinement and practices in the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), a federally operated short-term custodial facility in New York City designed primarily to house pretrial detainees. The District Court, on various constitutional grounds, enjoined, inter alia, the practice of housing, primarily for sleeping purposes, two inmates in individual rooms originally intended for single occupancy ("double-bunking"); enforcement of the so-called "publisher only" rule prohibiting inmates from receiving hard-cover books that are not mailed directly from publishers, book clubs, or bookstores; t...
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..... only by emphasizing that the supreme power "'resides in the people, as the fountain of government'" (citing 1 pennsylvania and the federal constitution, 1787-1788, p. 302 (j. mcmaster & f. stone eds. 1888) (quoting james wilson)).45 the people possessing this plenary bundle of specific powers clothed with all the rights, and bound by all the obligations of the preceding one .....
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