all - Opinion Summaries

US v. HUNT

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Government offered a race-neutral ground for striking the only African-American on the jury panel, so the district court did not err in denying...

PEOPLE v. JONES

Constitutional Law, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
The trial court's removal of defendant's appointed attorney because the attorney's previous representation of a man whom the defense suspected of...

SO. OREGON BARTER FAIR v. STATE OF OREGON

Constitutional Law
The court dismissed plaintiff's challenge to Oregon's Mass Gathering Act because the Act facially constituted a permissible time place and manner...

MADOL. v. NELSON

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
District court erred in setting aside magistrate judge's order compelling arbitration and in ordering discovery regarding the validity or...

TENNARD v. DRETKE

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a capital murder case involving a defendant with an IQ of 67, a COA should have issued, because a reasonable jurist could have found the district...

BLAKELY v. WASHINGTON

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Because the facts supporting the defendant's exceptionally harsh sentence were neither admitted by the defendant, nor found by a jury, the sentence...

CHENEY v. U.S. DIST. COURT FOR DIST. OF COLUMBIA

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a case concerning the National Energy Policy Development Group's alleged failure to comply with the Federal Advisory Committee Act's open meeting...

DOE v. US

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
In an abortion case, plaintiffs claim was not based on the Little Tucker Act and therefore, because the court found it did not have jurisdiction, it...

BRITELL v. US

Constitutional Law
Because 10 U.S.C. section 1093(a)'s ban on government funding for abortion is rationally related to the state's legitimate interest in protecting...

US v. KENNEDY

Constitutional Law, Evidence
Defendant unsuccessfully appealed his conviction for perjury on the grounds that evidence should have been suppressed based on of Fifth and Sixth...