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Netherland Vs. Gray
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Dec-23-1996
Netherland v. Gray - 519 U.S. 1301 (1996) OCTOBER TERM, 1996 Syllabus NETHERLAND, WARDEN v. GRAY ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY OF EXECUTION No. A-425. Decided December 23, 1996 Virginia's application to vacate the stay of execution in respondent Gray's case is denied. There appears to be no execution scheduled. Thus, it cannot be stayed, and there is nothing to be vacated. See Netherland v. Tuggle, 517 U. S. 130l. CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST, Circuit Justice. The Commonwealth of Virginia has asked me to vacate the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's stay of execution in respondent Gray's case, noting that the court did not purport to follow the standard for such stays set out in Barefoot In Gray v. Netherland, 518 U. S. 152 , 170-171 (1996), we remanded to the Court of Appeals Gray's claim that the Commonwealth had violated due process by misleading him about evidence it intended to use at sentencing. The court held that the claim was procedurally defaulted. Gra...
United States Vs. Gonzales
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Dec-11-1996
United States v. Gonzales - 520 U.S. 1 (1996) CASES ADJUDGED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES AT OCTOBER TERM, 1996 Syllabus UNITED STATES v. GONZALES ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT No. 95-1605. Argued December 11, 1996-Decided March 3,1997 All three respondents were convicted in New Mexico courts and sentenced to prison terms on state charges arising from the use of guns by two of them to hold up undercover officers during a drug sting operation. Mter they began to serve their state sentences, respondents were convicted on various drug and related federal charges connected to the sting operation, and of using firearms during those crimes in violation of 18 U. S. C. 924(c). In ordering their imprisonment, the District Court directed that the portion of their federal sentences attributable to the drug convictions run concurrently with their state sentences, with the remaining 60-month sentences required by 924(c) to ...
O'Gilvie Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Dec-10-1996
O'Gilvie v. United States - 519 U.S. 79 (1996) OCTOBER TERM, 1996 Syllabus O'GILVIE ET AL., MINORS v. UNITED STATES CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT No. 95-966. Argued October 9, 1996-Decided December 10, 1996* Petitioners, the husband and two children of a woman who died of toxic shock syndrome, received a jury award of $1,525,000 actual damages and $10 million punitive damages in a tort suit based on Kansas law against the maker of the product that caused decedent's death. They paid federal income tax insofar as the award's proceeds represented punitive damages, but immediately sought a refund. Procedurally speaking, this litigation represents the consolidation of two cases brought in the same Federal District Court: the husband's suit against the Government for a refund, and the Government's suit against the children to recover the refund that the Government had made to the children earlier. The District Court found for petitioners unde...
Caterpillar Inc. Vs. Lewis
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Dec-10-1996
Caterpillar Inc. v. Lewis - 519 U.S. 61 (1996) OCTOBER TERM, 1996 Syllabus CATERPILLAR INC. v. LEWIS CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT No. 95-1263. Argued November 12, 1996-Decided December 10, 1996 Respondent Lewis, a Kentucky resident, commenced this civil action in Kentucky state court after sustaining personal injuries while operating a bulldozer. Asserting state-law claims, Lewis named as defendants both the manufacturer of the bulldozer-petitioner Caterpillar Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Illinois-and the company that serviced the bulldozer-Whayne Supply Company, a Kentucky corporation with its principal place of business in Kentucky. Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, a Massachusetts corporation with its principal place of business in that State, intervened as a plaintiff, asserting subrogation claims against both Caterpillar and Whayne Supply for workers' compensation benefits Liberty Mutual had p...
Kansas Vs. Hendricks
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Dec-10-1996
Kansas v. Hendricks - 521 U.S. 346 (1996) OCTOBER TERM, 1996 Syllabus KANSAS v. HENDRICKS CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF KANSAS No. 95-1649. Argued December 10, 1996-Decided June 23,1997* Kansas' Sexually Violent Predator Act establishes procedures for the civil commitment of persons who, due to a "mental abnormality" or a "personality disorder," are likely to engage in "predatory acts of sexual violence." Kansas filed a petition under the Act in state court to commit respondent (and cross-petitioner) Hendricks, who had a long history of sexually molesting children and was scheduled for release from prison. The court reserved ruling on Hendricks' challenge to the Act's constitutionality, but granted his request for a jury trial. Mter Hendricks testified that he agreed with the state physician's diagnosis that he suffers from pedophilia and is not cured and that he continues to harbor sexual desires for children that he cannot control when he gets "stressed out," the jury de...
Arizonans for Official English Vs. Arizona
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Dec-04-1996
Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona - 520 U.S. 43 (1996) OCTOBER TERM, 1996 Syllabus ARIZONANS FOR OFFICIAL ENGLISH ET AL. v. ARIZONA ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 95-974. Argued December 4, 1996-Decided March 3,1997 Maria-Kelly F. Yniguez, an Arizona state employee at the time, sued the State and its Governor, Attorney General, and Director of the Department of Administration under 42 U. S. C. 1983, alleging that State Constitution Article XXVIII-key provisions of which declare English "the official language of the State," require the State to "act in English and in no other language," and authorize state residents and businesses "to bring [state-court] suitEs] to enforce thEe] Article"-violated, inter alia, the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. Yniguez used both English and Spanish in her work and feared that Article XXVIII, if read broadly, would require her to face discharge or other discipline if she di...
Printz Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Dec-03-1996
Printz v. United States - 521 U.S. 898 (1996) OCTOBER TERM, 1996 Syllabus PRINTZ, SHERIFF/CORONER, RAVALLI COUNTY, MONTANA v. UNITED STATES CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 95-1478. Argued December 3, 1996-Decided June 27,1997* Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act provisions require the Attorney General to establish a national system for instantly checking prospective handgun purchasers' backgrounds, note following 18 U. S. C. 922, and command the "chief law enforcement officer" (CLEO) of each local jurisdiction to conduct such checks and perform related tasks on an interim basis until the national system becomes operative, 922(s). Petitioners, the CLEOs for counties in Montana and Arizona, filed separate actions challenging the interim provisions' constitutionality. In each case, the District Court held that the background-check provision was unconstitutional, but concluded that it was severable from the remainder of the Act, effec...
Glickman Vs. Wileman Brothers and Elliott, Inc.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Dec-02-1996
Glickman v. Wileman Brothers & Elliott, Inc. - 521 U.S. 457 (1996) OCTOBER TERM, 1996 Syllabus GLICKMAN, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE v. WILEMAN BROTHERS & ELLIOTT, INC., ETAL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 95-1184. Argued December 2, 1996-Decided June 25,1997 Respondents, California tree fruitgrowers, handlers, and processors, initiated administrative proceedings challenging the validity of various regulations contained in marketing orders promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (AMAA). Congress enacted the AMAA to establish and maintain orderly agricultural-commodity marketing conditions and fair prices; the program, which is expressly exempted from the antitrust laws, displaces competition in favor of collective action in the discrete markets regulated. AMAA marketing orders set uniform prices, product standards, and other conditions for all producers in a particular market; ...
Babbitt Vs. Youpee
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Dec-02-1996
Babbitt v. Youpee - 519 U.S. 234 (1996) OCTOBER TERM, 1996 Syllabus BABBITT, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, ET AL. v. YOUPEE ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 95-1595. Argued December 2, 1996-Decided January 21,1997 In the late Nineteenth Century, Congress initiated an Indian land program that authorized the allotment of communal Indian property to individual tribal members. This allotment program resulted in the extreme fractionation of Indian lands as allottees passed their undivided interests on to multiple heirs through descent or devise. In 1983, Congress adopted the Indian Land Consolidation Act in part to reduce fractionated ownership of allotted lands. Section 207 of the Act-the "escheat" provision-prohibited the descent or devise of fractional interests that constituted 2 percent or less of the total acreage in an allotted tract and earned less than $100 in the preceding year. Instead of passing to heirs, the interests descr...
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