Indiana voter ID ruling [US SC]
April 28, 2008
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, US Supreme Court, April 28, 2008 [ruling that an Indiana voter ID law does not put an undue burden on the right to vote and therefore does not violate the US Constitution]. Read the full text of the opinion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here........ [more] 
Louisiana school Bible distribution ruling [US DC]
April 24, 2008
John Roe v. Tangipahoa Parish School Board, et al., US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, April 22, 2008 [ruling that a school district must stop the distribution of Bibles in schools as it constitutes a religious activity without a secular purpose]. Read the full text of the.... [more]
Katrina insurance fraud claim dismissal [US DC]
April 22, 2008
Thomas C., and Pamela McIntosh, v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, et al., US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, April 21, 2008 [dismissing claims of fraud against State Farm Insurance by a Mississippi couple who claimed that the company denied their insurance claim for.... [more]
EPA chief post-9/11 statement ruling [2nd Circuit]
April 22, 2008
Benzman, et al. v. Whitman, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, April 22, 2008 [ruling that former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman cannot be sued for making allegedly misleading reassurances about the air quality in New York after the September 11, 2001 attacks]. Read the full.... [more]
Lethal injection protocol ruling [US SC]
April 16, 2008
Baze v. Rees, US Supreme Court, April 16, 2008 [ruling that Kentucky's lethal injection procedure does not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment]. Read the full text of the opinion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here........ [more]
Armed Career Criminal Act ruling [US SC]
April 16, 2008
Begay v. United States, US Supreme Court, April 16, 2008 [ruling that convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol do not trigger enhanced sentencing for prior "violent felony" convictions under the Armed Career Criminal Act]. Read the full text of the opinion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's.... [more]
Drug sentence enhancement ruling [US SC]
April 16, 2008
Burgess v. United States, US Supreme Court, April 16, 2008 [holding that a defendant's federal sentence can be enhanced under the Controlled Substances Act when the defendant has been previously convicted of a state drug offense punishable by more than one year, even if that offense is classified.... [more]
Taxpayer refund remedy ruling [US SC]
April 15, 2008
United States v. Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co., et al., US Supreme Court, April 15, 2008 [ruling that a taxpayer seeking to bring an action in federal court to obtain a tax refund must first exhaust the administrative refund claim procedures outlined in the Internal Revenue Code]. Read the full.... [more]
Illinois capital gains tax ruling [US SC]
April 15, 2008
MeadWestvaco Corp. v. Illinois Department of Revenue, US Supreme Court, April 15, 2008 [overturning an Illinois state court decision allowing the state to tax a portion of the $1 billion capital gains realized by MeadWestvaco's predecessor when it sold its interest in Lexis/Nexis ]. Read the full.... [more]
High school free speech suit dismissal [6th Circuit]
April 9, 2008
Timothy Morrison, et al., v. Board of Education of Boyd County, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, April 9, 2008 [dismissing a lawsuit brought by a Kentucky high school student over a 2004 policy that bans students from expressing their opposition to homosexuality]. Read the full.... [more]
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