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Tenet v. Doe: 544 U.S. 1: 2005: ... Full Text of Volume 544 of the United States Reports at www.supremecourt.gov; United States Supreme Court cases in volume 544 ...
The state court's failure to cite to federal law or explicitly use a narrowing construction did not establish that federal constitutional standards were disregarded. Ginsburg filed a concurrence, joined by Souter and Breyer, which sought to clarify the Court's assumption that the state court had adjudicated all of the petitioner's arguments.
In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) Federal courts in diversity jurisdiction cases must apply the law of the states in which they sit, including the judicial doctrine of the state's highest court, where it does not conflict with federal law. There is no general federal common law. Coleman v.
Small v. United States, 544 U.S. 385 (2005), [1] was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States involving 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), [2] which makes it illegal to possess a firearm for individuals previously "convicted in any court" of crimes for which they could have been sentenced to more than one year in prison.
Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709 (2005), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that, under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), facilities that accept federal funds cannot deny prisoners accommodations that are necessary to engage in activities for the practice of their own religious beliefs.
Laws applied Title 11 of the United States Code Jacoway , 544 U.S. 320 (2005), was a bankruptcy case decided by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) qualify for certain exemptions under Title 11 of the United States Code .
Smith v. City of Jackson, 544 U.S. 228 (2005), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 30, 2005. It concerned the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) and the disparate impact theory. The Court held that although the theory of disparate impact set forth in Griggs v.