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Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74 (1980), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued on June 9, 1980 which affirmed the decision of the California Supreme Court in a case that arose out of a free speech dispute between the Pruneyard Shopping Center in Campbell, California, and several local high school students (who wished to canvass signatures for a petition against United ...
In March 1858, a federal court, the US District in San Francisco, overturned the California Supreme Court decision, holding that Lee was a free man. [3] Stovall then argued to United States Commissioner William Penn Johnson that Lee was in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. On April 14, 1858, a final trial held that Lee had crossed no ...
California v. Acevedo , 500 U.S. 565 (1991), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court , which interpreted the Carroll doctrine to provide one rule to govern all automobile searches. The Court stated, "The police may search an automobile and the containers within it where they have probable cause to believe contraband or evidence is ...
Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, 485 U.S. 439 (1988), was a United States Supreme Court landmark [2] case in which the Court ruled on the applicability of the Free Exercise Clause to the practice of religion on Native American sacred lands, specifically in the Chimney Rock area of the Six Rivers National Forest in California. [2]
Case history; Prior: People v. Lisenba, 14 Cal. 2d 403, 94 P.2d 569 (1939); affirmed, 313 U.S. 537 (1941); rehearing granted, 313 U.S. 597 (1941): Subsequent: 315 U.S. 826: Holding; The Court affirmed the Supreme Court of California's decision to deny the petitioner a writ of habeas corpus based on the methods used by law enforcement officials to procure his confession to murder.
Police officers cannot detain someone on the street just because that person acts furtively to avoid contact with them, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The California Supreme Court ruling curtails the ability of public employees in the state to seek help from the courts in labor disputes.
California v. Carney, 471 U.S. 386 (1985), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that a motor home was subject to the automobile exception to the search warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution because the motor home was readily movable.