United States Supreme Court - June 2003 Opinion Summaries

NIKE, INC. v. KASKY

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law
The court's writ of certiorari is dismissed as being improvidently granted, and the case is sent back to California's state courts for further...

GEORGIA v. ASHCROFT

Civil Rights, Elections
A section 2 vote dilution violation under the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. section 1973 is not an independent reason to deny section 5 preclearance....

STOGNER v. CALIFORNIA

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
California's law extending the statute of limitations for prosecuting sex-related child abuse, which had the effect of revising previously time-barred...

WIGGINS v. SMITH

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
An objective review of the performance by a criminal defendant's counsel in a capital case shows that the client's Sixth Amendment rights were...

LAWRENCE v. TEXAS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Texas law criminalizing two people of the same sex from engaging in private, consensual sex is unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court's decision in...

GREEN TREE FIN. CORP. v. BAZZLE

Banking Law, Class Actions, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
An arbitrator must determine whether contracts between a commercial lender and its customers, containing a clause providing for arbitration of all...

AM. INS. ASS'N v. GARAMENDI

Constitutional Law, Insurance Law, International Law
California's Holocaust Victim Insurance Relief Act of 1999, requiring any insurer doing business in that state to disclose information about certain...

GRUTTER v. BOLLINGER

Constitutional Law, Education Law
A state law school's narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions, to further a compelling state interest in obtaining the educational...

GRATZ v. BOLLINGER

Constitutional Law, Education Law
The manner in which a university uses racial preferences in undergraduate admissions is not narrowly tailored to achieve an asserted compelling state...

US v. AM. LIBRARY ASS'N, INC.

Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law
Public libraries' use of internet filtering software does not violate their patrons' First Amendment rights, thus the Children's Internet Protection...