United States Supreme Court - May 2005 Opinion Summaries

Arthur Andersen LLP v. US

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
A jury verdict finding plaintiff, an auditor for Enron Corporation, guilty of corruptly persuading another person to alter documents for an official...

Cutter v. Wilkinson

Constitutional Law
Section 3 of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, on its face, qualifies as a permissible accommodation that is not barred by the...

Tory v. Cochran

Constitutional Law, Remedies
Plaintiff's challenge to a permanent injunction, prohibiting him from picketing and orally uttering statements about Johnnie Cochran, who died after...

Lingle v. Chevron

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The "substantially advances" formula, announced in Agins v. City of Tiburon, 447 U.S. 255 (1980), is not an appropriate test for determining whether a...

Johanns v. Livestock Mktg. Ass'n

Agriculture, Constitutional Law
Generic advertising to promote beef and beef products, financed through assessments on the sale of cattle, is the government's own speech and is not...

Clingman v. Beaver

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
Oklahoma's semiclosed primary system does not violate the right to freedom of association since any burden it imposes is minor and justified by...

Deck v. Missouri

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The Constitution forbids the use of visible shackles during a capital trial's penalty phase, as it does during the guilt phase, unless that use is...

Medellin v. Dretke

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Review of defendant's habeas corpus petition, alleging that his rights under the Vienna Convention were violated, was improvidently granted where...