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ATKINS v. VIRGINIA

United States Supreme Court
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Executions of mentally retarded criminals are "cruel and unusual punishments" prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.
06/20/2002 00-8452

CHRISTOPHER v. HARBURY

United States Supreme Court
Constitutional Law, Government Law
A claim by a woman, whose husband was allegedly killed by Guatemalan officers paid by the CIA, did not state a cause of action for constitutional...
06/20/2002 01-394

UTAH v. EVANS

United States Supreme Court
Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
The Census Bureau's use of "hot-deck imputation" in a population count, giving the state of Utah one less Congressional representative than if the...
06/20/2002 01-714

CONSERVATORSHIP OF EDWARD W.

California Court of Appeal
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
Solano County Public Guardian's practice of requesting notice waivers, without an individualized showing of exigent circumstances, in all applications...
06/20/2002 A096401

BABY DOLLS TOPLESS SALOONS, INC. v. CITY OF DALLAS

United States Fifth Circuit
Constitutional Law
In a challenge to a city's requirement that female performers wear bikini tops, among other things, so that establishments avoid classification as...
06/20/2002 00-10651

HERNANDEZ-MEZQUITA v. ASHCROFT

United States Ninth Circuit
Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
The Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act's asylum-filing deadline, as a prerequisite for eligibility for special-rule cancellation of...
06/20/2002 01-70112

WILKERSON v. SULLIVAN

California Court of Appeal
Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
After appellant moved successfully to strike a SLAPP complaint, seeking to prevent or limit anti-abortion demonstrations at Planned Parenthood...
06/19/2002 D038688

WELCH v. ASHCROFT

United States Fourth Circuit
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
Although the mandatory detention of deportable aliens is reasonably related to legitimate government interests, the 14-month detention of a deportable...
06/19/2002 00-7665

DOE v. CHAMBERLIN

United States Third Circuit
Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
Because various photographs of young girls could not be said to fall within the Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act's definition of...
06/19/2002 01-2170

VENEY v. WYCHE

United States Fourth Circuit
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Assuming that jail officials denied an inmate's request to move from his single-occupancy cell into a double-occupancy cell, solely because he is...
06/18/2002 01-6603

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