468 U.S. 517 468 U.S. 517 104 S.Ct. 3194 82 L.Ed.2d 393 Ted S. HUDSON, Petitionerv.Russell Thomas PALMER, Jr. Russell Thomas PALMER, Jr., Petitioner v. Ted S. HUDSON. Nos. 82-1630, 82-6695. Supreme Court of the United States Argued Dec. 7, 1983. Decided July 3, 1984. Syllabus Respondent, an inmate at a Virginia penal institution, filed […]
466 U.S. 408 (1984) 104 S.Ct. 1868 80 L.Ed. 404 HELICOPTEROS NACIONALES DE COLOMBIA, S. A. v. HALL ET AL. No. 82-1127.Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 8, 1983Decided April 24, 1984 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS Headnotes CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Due Process — State-Court Jurisdiction — Wrongful-Death Actions — Defendant’s Contacts with […]
500 U.S. 614 111 S.Ct. 2077 114 L.Ed.2d 660 Thaddeus Donald EDMONSON, Petitioner v. LEESVILLE CONCRETE COMPANY, INC. No. 89-7743. Argued Jan. 15, 1991. Decided June 3, 1991. [qtbl style=”color:gray;”] Summary:??The Supreme Court of the United States held that peremptory challenges may not be used to exclude jurors on the basis of race in?civil trials. […]
499 U.S. 400 111 S.Ct. 1364 113 L.Ed.2d 411 Larry Joe POWERS, Petitioner, v. OHIO. No. 89-5011. Argued Oct. 9, 1990. Decided April 1, 1991. Syllabus During jury selection at his state-court trial for aggravated murder and related offenses, petitioner Powers, a white man, objected to the State’s use of peremptory challenges to remove seven […]
499 U.S. 1 111 S.Ct. 1032 113 L.Ed.2d 1 PACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Cleopatra HASLIP et al. No. 89-1279. Argued Oct. 3, 1990. Decided March 4, 1991. Headnotes CONSTITUTIONAL LAW — DUE PROCESS — PUNITIVE DAMAGES. A punitive damages award that was more than four times the amount of compensatory damages claimed […]
512 U.S. 415 512 U.S. 415114 S.Ct. 2331129 L.Ed.2d 336 HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., et al., Petitioners,v.Karl L. OBERG. No. 93-644. Supreme Court of the United States Argued April 20, 1994. Decided June 24, 1994. Syllabus * After finding petitioner Honda Motor Co., Ltd., liable for injuries respondent Oberg received while driving a three-wheeled all-terrain […]
511 U.S. 127 114 S.Ct. 1419 128 L.Ed.2d 89 J.E.B., Petitioner v. ALABAMA ex rel. T.B. No. 92-1239. Supreme Court of the United States Argued Nov. 2, 1993. Decided April 19, 1994. [qtbl style=”color:gray;”] The Supreme Court of the United States held that making peremptory challenges based solely on a prospective juror’s sex is unconstitutional.J.E.B. […]
502 U.S. 62 112 S.Ct. 475 116 L.Ed.2d 385 Wayne ESTELLE, Warden, Petitioner v. Mark Owen McGUIRE. No. 90-1074. Argued Oct. 9, 1991. Decided Dec. 4, 1991. Headnotes: Admission of evidence of battered child syndrome — Jury instructions: Neither admission of prior injury evidence as proof of battered child syndrome nor jury instruction as to […]
531 U.S. 98 121 S.Ct. 525 148 L.Ed.2d 388 GEORGE W. BUSH, et al., PETITIONERS v. ALBERT GORE, Jr., et al. No. 00 949 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES [December 12, 2000] ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT Per Curiam. * On December 8, 2000, the Supreme Court of Florida ordered […]
EVENWEL ET AL. v. ABBOTT, GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, ET AL., (2016) United States Supreme Court No. 14-940 578 U.S. ___ (2016) Argued: December 8, 2015????Decided: April 4, 2016 [qtbl style=”color:gray;”] Holding:?Evenwel v. Abbott, 578 U.S. ___ (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the one person, one vote […]
United States Supreme Court No. 13-895 Argued: November 12, 2014????Decided: March 25, 2015Syllabus:?In 2012 Alabama redrew the boundaries of the State’s 105 House districts and 35 Senate districts. In doing so, while Alabama sought to achieve numerous traditional districting objectives–e.g., compactness, not splitting counties or precincts, minimizing change, and protecting incumbents–it placed yet greater importance […]