This case held that school segregation was unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court held that Unions and Corporations have a right to spend money to advocate the election of particular candidates.
Held: 2 U.S.C. § 441b unconstitutional as effectively equivalent to a restraint on political speech.
Held: Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U. S. 652 (1990) is overruled. Also, overruled the part of McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, 540 U.S. 93 (2003) that upheld BCRA §203’s extension of §441b’s restrictions on independent corporate expenditures.
Held: BCRA §§201 and 311 are valid as applied to the ads for the documentary "Hillary: the Movie," which is the speech at issue in this case, and to the movie itself.
President Obama's Reaction to the Supreme Court's decision.
This is a Son of Boss tax shelter case opinion by the Court of Federal Claims (2009)
- Coltec v. United States (Tax loss create with the use of SPE disallowed based on the economic substance doctrine.)
The Supreme Court opinion, which held that there is a personal right to bear arms.
This is an interesting resource for research into who is giving money to whom in the political world.
This is the complaint filded by the SEC against Goldman Sachs on April 15, 2010 for its failure to disclose to investors the fact that Paulson & Co. helped select the components used to create the synthetic CDO for the purpsose of Paulson shorting the CDO.
This is a presentation given by my daughter Tracy, after she returned from Haiti.
This is the Supreme Court's opinion dealing with the treatment of prisoner's held in connection with the War on Terror. The Court held that Article III of the Geneva Convention does apply to enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo, Cuba.
In this case the Supreme Court held that a US citizen held as a enemy combatant must be given due process rights allowing them to challenge their status before and impartial decision maker.
Retaliation by firing a coach who complained that the girl's basketball team did not receive equal funding under Title IX constitutes sex discrimination.
This is the final court decision in the first class action sexual harassment case.
A dangerous decision undermining property rights. O'Connor's dissent is particularly well done.
This case holds that laws prohibiting interracial marriage violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
For purposes of the 5th and 14th Amendments, a regulation which deprives the owner of land of virtually all its economic valuses is a "taking" pursuant to the "takings clause" of the 5th Amendment, and therefore requires compensation.
The Supreme Court held a Chicago handgun ban unconstitutional. This is important because it extends the second amendment right to bear arms to the states through the 14th Amendment due process clause.
Court held that males receiving worse treatment under FMLA was gender discrimination. This case placed gender close to race in the level of protection granted.
Son of Boss tax shelter case tried August 2007, opinion issued December 15, 2009. IRS won both the tax and the 40% valuation penalty.
Overturned race based determinations for assignment of students to public schools.
In this decision issued on on March 9, 2007 the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, the court found that the 2nd Amendment bestows a right on individuals to bear arms.
In this case, the Court upheld a towns rejection of a monument to be placed in a city park by a religious group, even though the park already had a monument of the Ten Commandments. The Court held that the decision to allow placement of monuments is a form of government and not private speech.
The Supreme Court upheld state segregation laws, declaring that "separate but equal" satisfied the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause.
States cannot force persons (businesses) without a physical presense in the state to collect the state's sales tax.
Extremely high punitive damage award was unconstitutional because it violated the substantive due process requirement that a penalty be proportional to the wrongful act.
- Ten Commandment Cases
The Gun-Free School Zone Act of 1990 was not a constitutional excercise of Congress' Commerce Clause authority.
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 was not a constitutional excercise of Congress' Commerce Clause authority.
A defendant must have "certain minimum contacts" with a state before the state can assert jurisdiction over the defendant.
This is the US Supreme Court case concerning the internment of Japanese-American's during World War II.