Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Mar-30-1998
Bragdon v. Abbott - 524 U.S. 624 (1998) OCTOBER TERM, 1997 Syllabus BRAGDON v. ABBOTT ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT No. 97-156. Argued March 30, 1998-Decided June 25,1998 Respondent Abbott is infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but had not manifested its most serious symptoms when the incidents in question occurred. At that time, she went to petitioner's office for a dental examination and disclosed her HIV infection. Petitioner discovered a cavity and informed respondent of his policy against filling cavities of HIV-infected patients in his office. He offered to perform the work at a hospital at no extra charge, though respondent would have to pay for use of the hospital's facilities. She declined and filed suit under, inter alia, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which prohibits discrimination against any individual "on the basis of disability in the ... enjoyment of the ... services ... of ...
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Decided on : Jan-21-1998
Feltner v. Columbia Pictures Television, Inc. - 523 U.S. 340 (1998) OCTOBER TERM, 1997 Syllabus FELTNER v. COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION, INC. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 96-1768. Argued January 21, 1998-Decided March 31,1998 Respondent Columbia Pictures Television, Inc., terminated agreements licensing several television series to three television stations owned by petitioner Feltner after the stations' royalty payments became delinquent. When the stations continued to broadcast the programs, Columbia sued Feltner and others for, inter alia, copyright infringement. Columbia won partial summary judgment as to liability on its copyright infringement claims and then exercised the option afforded by 504(c) of the Copyright Act of 1976 (Act) to recover statutory damages in lieu of actual damages. The District Court denied Feltner's request for a jury trial, and awarded Columbia statutory damages following a bench trial. The Ninth Ci...
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Decided on : Apr-27-1998
Clinton v. City of New York - 524 U.S. 417 (1998) OCTOBER TERM, 1997 Syllabus CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. v. CITY OF NEW YORK ET AL. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA No. 97-1374. Argued April 27, 1998-Decided June 25,1998 Last Term, this Court determined on expedited review that Members of Congress did not have standing to maintain a constitutional challenge to the Line Item Veto Act (Act), 2 U. S. C. 691 et seq., because they had not alleged a sufficiently concrete injury. Raines v. Byrd, 521 U. S. 811 . Within two months, the President exercised his authority under the Act by canceling 4722(c) of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which waived the Federal Government's statutory right to recoupment of as much as $2.6 billion in taxes that the State of New York had levied against Medicaid providers, and 968 of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, which permitted the owners of certain food refiners and processors t...
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Decided on : Nov-30-1998
Department of Commerce v. United States House of Representatives - 525 U.S. 316 (1998) OCTOBER TERM, 1998 Syllabus DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ET AL. v. UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ET AL. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA No. 98-404. Argued November 30, 1998-Decided January 25,1999* The Constitution's Census Clause authorizes Congress to direct an "actual Enumeration" of the American public every 10 years to provide a basis for apportioning congressional representation among the States. Pursuant to this authority, Congress has enacted the Census Act, 13 U. S. C. 1 et seq., delegating the authority to conduct the decennial census to the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary). The Census Bureau (Bureau), which is part of the Department of Commerce, announced a plan to use two forms of statistical sampling in the 2000 Decennial Census to address a chronic and apparently growing problem of "undercounting" of some identifiable groups, inc...
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