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Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962), is the first landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution was interpreted to prohibit criminalization of particular acts or conduct, as contrasted with prohibiting the use of a particular form of punishment for a crime.
In Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962), the Court decided a California law authorizing a 90-day jail sentence for "be[ing] addicted to the use of narcotics" violated the Eighth Amendment, as narcotics addiction "is apparently an illness", and California was attempting to punish people based on the state of this illness, rather than for ...
Boise, the status of homelessness. The 1962 case, Robinson v. California, involved the status of being addicted to drugs. Following the decision in Martin v. Boise, lawyers representing homeless ...
The 1962 case, Robinson v. California, specifically regarded the status of being addicted to drugs. Following the Ninth Circuit decision, lawyers representing unhoused residents sued Grants Pass ...
In the 1962 case Robinson v. California, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits criminalization of a status, as opposed to criminalizing criminal acts, in striking down a California law that criminalized being addicted to narcotics. [2] In the 1968 case Powell v.
California did not violate the Due Process Clause when entering a binding judgment on a Texas corporation with "substantial connection[s]" to California Lambert v. California: 355 U.S. 225 (1957) mens rea and ignorance of the law: One, Inc. v. Olesen: 355 U.S. 371 (1958) pro-homosexual writings and the Comstock laws: Perez v. Brownell: 356 U.S ...
United States v. Robinson, 414 U.S. 218 (1973), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that "in the case of a lawful custodial arrest a full search of the person is not only an exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment, but is also a reasonable search under that Amendment."
Stansbury v. California: 7 Cox v. United States (1947) 8 Palmer v. Thompson: 9 National Federation of Independent Business v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration: 10 Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez: 11 Lange v. California: 12 Menominee Tribe v. United States: 13 Shaffer v. Heitner: 14 United States v. Robinson: 15 Goldman v. Weinberger ...