Case Topics

1st & 8th Amendments 1st Amendement speech 1st Amendment 1st Amendment & election campaigns 1st Amendment & jurisdiction 1st Amendment right of association 1st Amendment speech 1st Amendment speech & association 4th Amendment 4th Amendment searches 5th Amendment 5th Amendment taking 5th Am right to remain silent 6th Amendment 6th Amendment & appeal rights 8th Amendment 8th Amendment physical force 10th Amendment 11th & 14th amendments 11th amendment 12-week leave period 14th Amendment 18 U.S.C. sec 924(c)(1)(A) 21st Amendment Abortion abortion protests Access Access to corporate documents Access to police records & commercial use accident reports accomplice testimony actual innocence adequacy of counsel adjustment of status administrative actions administrative agencies administrative orders administrative procedure Administrative Procedure Act Admiralty Admiralty jurisdiction admissibility of confessions admission of accomplice statements adult bookstores adult business licensing adversarial proceeding adverse employment action advertising claims affiliated companies Affirmative action age Age discrimination Age discrimination & 11th amendment Age discrimination in employment Age Discrimination in Employment Act Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 agency procedures agency review Agent Orange aggravated felony aggravating circumstances, aggravation & mitigation aggravation and mitigation airbags airline liability alcohol shipments alibi evidence alienage jurisdiction Aliens Alien Tort Statute Allied-Signal All Writs Act Americans with Disabilities Act amounts-in-controversy amounts in controversy and Liability Act and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and the United States became parties. anonymous tips Anti-abortion protests anti-cutback rule, Anti-Dumping Act Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act anticipatory warrants Antiterrorism & Effective Death Penalty Act Antiterrorism & Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 Antiterrorism & Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) Antitrust Antitrust & phone companies Appeals and ineffective counsel appeals court rules appellate jurisdiction appellate review apportionment appropriation appropriations Arbitration Arbitration & disabilities Armed Career Criminal Act Arrests asbestos cancer fears Asbestos settlements Ashcroft directive associational rights asthma Asylum Asylum & Guatemalan crimes athletes Attorney's fees attorney competence attorney conflict attorney fees Attorney fees and costs Attorney General certification Attorneys & searches Attorneys' fees attorneys fees Attorneys fees and prison litigation reform act automatic stay automobile search baby formula Back taxes owed to states Banking Bank larceny & jury instructions Bank larceny & robbery Bankruptcy Bankruptcy & unsecured claims bankruptcy code Banks ban on access to publications baseball labor settlement Batson Batson v. Kentucky battered woman's syndrome benefits claim bills of lading Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 Blakely Bond issue Booker Border dispute border search & seizure Border searches boxing branch banks Branch Davidians Bribery Broadcast indecency broker liability burden of proof cable cable modems California's Determinate Sentencing Law Campaign contribution limits Campaign contributions campaign finance Campaign financing campaign speech Capital case Capital case habeas petitions Capital punishment carrier rate bases Car search Car searches Car searches & 4th amendment car towing Casino gambling ads and federal regulation causation Cell phone licenses Census Census sampling CERCLA Certificate of appeal chapter 7 Chapter 11 chapter 13 chapter 13 cramdown provision Child Online Protection Act Child pornography child rape Children's Internet Protection Act CIA Cigarette ads citizenship Citizen suits & water pollution control act civil conspiracy civil forfeitures civil penalties civil procedure Civil racketeering civil rights civil rights act civil rights suits Civil Service Reform Act civil verdicts claim preclusion class actions Class actions & non-party shareholders Class action settlements class of one, Clean Air Act Clean air standards Clean water act clemency closely related offense closing argument prejudice Coal Act coal workers cocaine cocaine powder cocaine trafficking COLA benefits Collective bargaining Collective bargaining & university professors college scholarship Colorado River Question(s) presented: This case is almost 50 years old. It dates back to 1952 comity commerce clause commercial speech common law revenue rule common law written agreements Company tax deductions Compensation Compensation and Liability Act competence Competency to stand trial competitive local exchange carriers (CLecs) complaint sufficiency Comprehensive Environmental Response Comunications Act of 1934 concealed assets concealing torture confessions Confrontation clause Congressional Accountability Act congressional authority Congressional employee rights Congressional power Congressional redistricting Congressional redistricting & equal protection congressional statute Congressional term limits consent consent-once-removed consent decree Conspiracy Constitution Constitution's bankruptcy clause Constitution's Copyright Clause constitutional criminal procedure constitutionality constitutionality of reducing judicial pay consular notice consular notification consumer fraud contingent fees contract contract breach contracts controlled substances Controlled Substances Act conviction copyright Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 corporate planes corporate profit sharing plan corporations counsel country of birth county County license fees for federal judges court mandates crack cocaine credit card fee limits credit card rebate creditors Crime elements crime of violence Criminal appeals criminal defendant Criminal discovery criminal enterprise criminal offenses criminal procedure Criminal searches & privacy Criminal searches & traffic stops Criminal seizures & constitutional notice cross-appeal Cross-burning cross-examination cruel & unusual punishment cruel and unusual punishment Custody Customs Damages death penalty Debt Collection Act debt limit Declaratory Judgement Act defamation defendant testimony Dentist ads & FTC regulation Deportation deportations depressed wages deregulation detention detentions diesel pollution directed verdict direct threat Disabilities Disabilities & hypertension Disabilities & pilot vision Disabilities & truck driver's vision Disabilities and community placement Disabilities and schools Disabilities and social security disability benefits disadvantaged business enterprise program disadvantaged small business cerification discharge discipline Disclosure of credit information Disclosure of driver's information Discovery discrimination dismissals for drug use disparate impact disparate pay displays diversity diversity jurisdiction divorce doctors' duty doctrine of equivalents document desctruction documents domestic abuse domestic restraining order door-to-door solicitations Dormant commerce clause double jeopardy Double Jeopardy Clause downward departures dress configurations driving while intoxicated drug-detection dogs drug advertising Drug arrest Drug conspiracy and jury instructions Drug forfeitures drug offenses Drug roadblocks drugs Drug testing drug trafficking drug treatment drug use Drunk driving due process Due Process Clause due process hearing Duress Early prison release economic development economic value dilution economy education records EEOC Eighth Amendment electioneering communication election financing election law Election reform Elections electors electric chair Electricity Electricity costs electrocutions emergency aid Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act Eminent domain emissions Emotional distress damages employee benefits Employee compensation employee contributory negligence Employee disability plans Employee pensions employee retaliation employee tips Employess Employment employment discrimination employment law Endangered Species Act Enemy combatant energy policy energy regulation English-only enhanced sentence enhanced sentences Enhanced sentencing Enron scandal enterprise Environment Environmental cleanup environmental law environmental regulation environmental review EPA EPA's delegated authority EPSDT Equal Access to Justice Act equalization Equal protection equal protection & Hawaiians only Equal Protection Clause equitable relief ERISA escrows espionage establishment clause estoppel European Commission Evictions evidence evidence suppression evolving standards of decency ex-spouse rights excessive force Excessive police force & qualified immunity exclusionary clause exclusionary rule exculpatory evidence Exculpatory evidence & capital case exculpatory information executive orders executive power exemplary damages exhaustion exigent circumstances expert fees Expert testimony Expert testimony & admissibility of evidence explosives Export Clause ex post facto ex post facto clause extortion facial challenge fact finding Fair Credit Reporting Act Fair Housing Act Fair Labor Standards Act Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Fair trial fair use Faith-based funding false arrest false claims act Family & Medical Leave Act Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) family medical care Farm Bill favorable termination FCC FCC & phone companies FCC pricing rules FDA FDA misrepresentations FDA regulation of tobacco FDIC Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) Federal Advisory Committee Act Federal arbitration act Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act Federal Boat Safety Act Federal carjacking federal crime Federal diversity jurisdiction Federal diversity jurisdiction Federal Election Campaign Act federal employee liability federal employees Federal Employees Health Benefits Act Federal Employers' Liability Act Federal Employers Liability Act Federal False Claims Act federal funding Federal habeas corpus Federal immunity Federal Impact Aid Act Federalism Federal jurisdiction Federal jurisdiction & timeliness federal land federal law federal liability federal Organic Act of Guam Federal Power Act federal preemption federal preemption of state drug labeling law Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 Federal taxes Federal tax liens Federal Tort Claims Act Federal Trade Commission regulations Federal Trademark Dilution Act fees felons felony felony drug offense FICA taxes fiduciary breach fiduciary breaches fiduciary duty Fifth Amendment file-sharing filing period finance charge firearms Firearms ban firearms enhancement First Amendment fixed price purchasing flood damage food and drug regulation football game invocations Forced comp time forced medication foreign affairs doctrine foreign cargo foreign governments foreign nationals foreign relations foreign ships Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Foreign sovereigns Foreign states Foreign trade Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act Forensic evidence forfeiture forum non conveniens Fourteenth Amendment Fourth Amendment Franchise taxes & interstate commerce fraud Freedom of information Freedom of information act Freedom of information Act exemptions free exercise clause free speech Frisks full faith & credit funding future dangerousness gambling Gambling taxes Gangs gas pedal technology gender gender discrimination Gender discrimination & college sports generic advertising Geneva Convention Glacier Bay National Park global price-fixing Global warming government actions Government employment Government immunity Government immunity & small businesses government liability government mortgage loan prepayments Grandparent visitation greenhouse gas auto emissions grievance procedures gross income Guantanamo detainees Guatemala Guilty plea guilty pleas gun records Gun rights Guns Habeas appeals Habeas corpus habeas relief habeas review harmless error Hate crimes hazardous waste hazardous waste cleanup Health benefits Health insurance and RICO hearing herbicides High school athletics high speed chase HMOs Hobbs Act Holocaust Victim Insurance Relief Act homosexuality Hospital dumping hospital medicare fraud IDEA identification Identity theft illegal arrests Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 illegal workers Immigration immunity import duties imputation, income-first / resource-first Income taxes in court publicity indebtedness income Indian Civil Rights Act Indian coal lease amendments Indian courts Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 Indian reservations Indian tribes indictment indictments indigent defendant indigent defendants indigents indirrect costs indispensable parties individualized education program Individualized Education Program (IEP) Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) ineffective assistance of counsel ineffective counsel information services injunctions Inmates innocence Insanity Insurance insurance policies Insurance reimbursements intake questionnaires integration tiebreaker intent interconnection agreements Internal Revenue service International Court of Justice International flights & Warsaw Convention International trade & customs internet internet registries interpleader Interrogation interrogations interstate/intrastate commerce interstate agreement on detainers interstate commerce interstate competition Intervention intimidation investment schemes Investment tax credits investor protection IRAs issue preclusion joint liability joint occupants judge's role judge/jury judge/jury decisionmaking judge/jury findings Judges judge sentencing judgment bars judicial bypass judicial canons judicial review Jurisdiction Jury Jury bias jury instructions jury instructions on mitigation Jury selection just compensation justiciability juvenile juvenile offenders knock & announce knock and announce Labor & collective bargaining labor/employment contracts labor costs labor disputes Labor regulations Labor unions Land development moratorium land titles land use Land use & constitutional takings Lanham Act law enforcement law enforcement records legal aid services Legal services restriction legislative history Lesser included offenses lethal gas and habeas corpus lethal injection lethal injections liability liability jury instructions liability limits liberty interest libraries licensing licensing fees licensing prior restraints life-time financial assistance Life sentences & jury instructions litigation litigation reimbursements Livestock grazing local phone & high-speed internet service local regulations lodestar method loitering & constitutional vagueness long-distance calls long term segregation low-income housing Magistrate judges Magistrate jurisdiction majority vote make-up mandatory arbitration of civil rights claims under collective bargaining agreements mandatory detention mandatory generic mandatory minimum sentences Mandatory minimum sentencing marijuana Maritime Maritime jurisdiction and workers' compensation maritime law Materiality of false statements McCain-Feingold Act (Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act) Media & law enforcement Medicaid Medical assistance benefits medical coverage Medical Device Act Medical necessity Medicare reimbursements medicinal use Medtronic Megan's Law, mental commitment Mental health nurses mental illness mental retardation Mexican financial fallout Michigan Motor Carrier Act micro-colors migratory birds military recruitment Military sex Military tribunals milk price supports Mineral Leasing Act minerals Minority voting rights minors minors & community standards Miranda Miranda rights Miranda warnings misdemeanor misdemeanors Missouri ballot initiative mitigating evidence mitigation mitigation evidence mixed mixed-motive Mobile-Sierra modifications money laundering Mootness mortgage contracts mother's health motor carriers motor transport multi-district litigation Multi-state crimes & venue Multidistrict litigation municipal bonds Municipal flow control ordinance Myanmar boycott narcotics National Bank Act National Labor Relations Act national origin National parks concessions national security Native American reservations Native Americans Native Americans & state tax jurisdiction Native American treaty rights Native American tribes navigable water necessary parties Nevada New Mexico new trial motion Non-citizen arrests Non-Intercourse Act noncapital sentencing Noncitizens and the right to contract notice Notice of appeal Notices of appeal Nude dancing ordinance nullification jury instructions Nursing homes & Medicare/Medicaid regulations obstruction of justice obvious inventions off-road vehicles Official corruption & receiving gifts Oil & gas leases oil spills one-man one-vote online databases Oregon Death with Dignity Act original source other crimes overbidding overbreadth overt act Ownership rights paralegals parental notification parochial schools Parole parole ineligibility Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 Partial birth abortions partnership citizenship partnerships party consent party limits patentability Patent infringement patent property right Patents Patents & standard of agency review paternity patients' rights Payphones peanut farming Pension benefits pension plans Pensions peremptory challenge peremptory challenges permit procedures persecution phone service physical evidence Physician-assisted suicide physicians Pittman Underground Water Act plain error plain error review plants Plea agreement Pole Attachments Act Police police interrogation Police interrogations Police liability Police search Police stop Police stop & search police stops political causes political parties Political party spending political speech pollution post-mortem photos pre-emption preclearance predatory buying predatory conduct preemption preemption. food and drug law preemptory challenge Pregnancy Discrimination Act pregnant women Prescription drugs presentence report Presidential election 2000 presidential foreign powers presidential power & double jeopardy prevailing party price fixing Primary elections Prior convictions prior restraint Prison conditions prison confinement Prisoner litigation prisoner medical care Prisoners prisoners of war Prison litigation reform act prison privileges Prisons Prison segregation privacy Privacy Act private cause of action private schools Private Securities Litigation Reform Act private suits Privatization probable cause Probate probation searches proceeds product liability product liability loss Products liability pro golf prohibition repeal proof Property rights Property rights and taxation property search Property takings property tax abatements property taxes property title pro se prosecutorial misconduct prosecutorial statements pro se defendants pro se representation Protect Act public concern public high schools public housing public schools public transportation public use public utilities Punitive damages Qualified immunity qui tam race Race discrimination racial discrimination racial preferences racketeering Racketeering & statute of limitations radio permits Railroad liability Railroads random drug testing rational basis review re-entry reapportionment reasonable accommodation reasonable doubt reasonable reliance recidivism reckless disregard reclassification recommended sentences recruiting rules redistricting Referenda refunds regulatory jurisdiction regulatory law Rehabilitation Act reimbursements reliance religion religious conversion Religious Freedom Restoration Act Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) religious limitations remands remedies removal Removal jurisdiction reports research & development expenses resentencing reservation land Resident aliens residential arson residual doubt res judicata restraints Retail price floors retaliation retaliatory prosecution retirees retirement retroactivity return of capital rule return to work reverse discrimination reverse passing off review RICO ride-alongs & searches Right to appeal right to a speedy trial Right to counsel riparian rights Roadblocks Robinson-Patman Act royalties Rule 10b-5 rulemaking rule of lenity Rules 50(a) & (b) Sacramental hoasca safe harbor safety inspections sales tax fraud scheme liability school funding School prayer Schools school vouchers search & seizure Search and seizure Searches Searches & seizures search incident to arrest search warrant Second Amendment second opinions section 1981 Securities Securities Exchange Act Securities fraud Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act (SLUSA) segregation seizures self-incrimination self-representation Self-representation in a criminal appeal seniority Sentencing Sentencing & right to appeal Sentencing enhancement Sentencing Guidelines separation of church and state set aside verdicts Settlement settlements sex bias Sex discrimination Sex discrimination & compensatory damages Sex discrimination & punitive damages Sex offender registration law Sex offenders sex offenses Sexual harassment Sexual harassment & school liability sexually explicit material Sexually violent people Sexual predators, shareholders Sherman Act Sherman Antitrust Act shipments shop fees Sixth Amendment smoking Social security social security disabilities cases Social security disability social security number disclosure Social security taxes Sodomy laws Solomon Amendment sovereign immunity sovereign immunity & overtime pay sovereignty special education speech Speech & Debate Clause Speedy trial Speedy Trial Act Spending and Commerce clauses spendthrift clause standard of proof standard of review standing stare decisis Starr investigation state's rights & prepaid tuition programs state's right to immunity state action State boundaries State corporate taxation state immunity state income tax state law State sovereign immunity state sovereignty states rights state taxation State taxes statuory construction Statute of limitations statutes of limitations statutory cap statutory construction statutory intepretation statutory interpretation stays stockbroker liability strict scrutiny structural error student loans student records submerged land subpoena subrogation successive petitons sufficiency of complaints sufficiency of the evidence supermax prisons supervised release supplemental jurisdiction suppression suppression of a voluntary confession supremacy clause suspended sentence Suspension Clause takings takings clause tangible employer action Tax abatements taxable income taxation Tax court Tax delinquency Taxes Tax evasion taxing out-of-state corporations Tax Injunction Act tax liens taxpayer standing Tax refunds Tax seizure Teague v. Lane Telecommunications Telecommunications Act Telecommunications Act of 1996 telemarketing fraud Ten Commandments termination terrorism Terrorist Death Penalty Enhancement Act of 2005 Testimonial exclusion testimonial hearsay testimony Texas congressional districts theft The Immigration and Nationality Act theology Thermal imaging Third-party beneficiaries three-strikes & no parole three strikes and you're out time limits timeliness Title IX Title VII Tobacco Tobacco advertising tort claims act tort reform torts Towing Trade Trade dress infringement Trademark Trademarks Trade moratorium traffic violations treating physician rule trespass trial by jury Tribal immunity Tribal jurisdiction of nuclear incidents Tribal land Tribal rights and coal ownership tribal sovereign immunity tribal sovereign power tribal sovereignty Tribal water rights Trucking fees Trusts and estates Truth in Lending Act Tucker Act U.S. court jurisdiction UK territories unadorned factor jury instruction undocumented workers undue burden Unfair price competition union certification union fees Union representation during questioning United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances United States Forest Service Unlawful detention US jurisdiction usury Utah utilities vacating awards vagueness valuation methods value of production vehicles venue vessel owner liability Veterans affairs vicarious liability Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act videotaped testimony Vienna Convention Violence against women act violent felony Virtual child pornography virtual representation visitation vitamin B deficiency vitamins voir dire voluntary departure voter identification law Voting rights voting rights act waiver Warning devices Warrantless car searches Warrantless search Warrantless searches warrants Warsaw Convention Water dispute water district liability water rights Welfare benefits & equal protection Westfall Act wetlands when Arizona brought an original action in the U.S. Supreme Court against California and several of its public agencies to determine the rights to the waters of the Colorado River. Later Whistleblower whistleblowing wilderness study areas willful failure to pay maintenance and cure wire fraud wireless telecommunications Wiretapping witness witnesses work conditions workers' compensation Workers' compensation & due process workplace workweek wrongful appropriation Wrongful death wrongful discharge year and a day Yellowstone River zoning