tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3870377971497300427Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:10:48 +0000ImmigrationAgeAmen to thatMilitaryThe ConstitutionKentucky Supreme CourtJusticeConstitutional rightsBUYING justiceCrimeRacismRacePunishmentCivil warU. S. Supreme CourtMiddle EastTerrorAgeismDemocracy for saleKentucky ConstitutionBloggingThis site is dedicated to the practitioners of jurisprudence, and to those interested in knowing the law.http://blackrobesspeak.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)Blogger69125noreply@blogger.comnoThis site is dedicated to the practitioners of jurisprudence, and to those interested in knowing the law.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/BlackRobesSpeakhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3870377971497300427.post-6189520223986434398Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:33:00 +00002011-06-29T10:33:25.473-05:00U. S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe ConstitutionJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/qDGPBkuoMbQ/u-s-supreme-court-invalidates-arizonas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0The US Supreme Court struck down an Arizona campaign finance regulation that provided publicly financed candidates with additional government subsidies, which are triggered by independent expenditure...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe ConstitutionJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/P6087yusIqA/u-s-supreme-court-sides-with-first.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0no For fellow Lawyers, the case is BROWN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL. v. ENTERTAINMENT MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION ET AL., No. 08–1448. You can read the entire case here, but the synopsis follows below: Respondents, representing the video-game and software indnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor) For fellow Lawyers, the case is BROWN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL. v. ENTERTAINMENT MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION ET AL., No. 08–1448. You can read the entire case here, but the synopsis follows below: Respondents, representing the video-game and software industries, filed a preenforcement challenge to a California law that restricts the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The Federal District Court concluded that the Act violated the First Amendment and permanently enjoined its enforcement. The Ninth Circuit affirmed. Held: The Act does not comport with the First Amendment. Pp. 2–18. (a) Video games qualify for First Amendment protection. Like pro-tected books, plays, and movies, they communicate ideas through fa-miliar literary devices and features distinctive to the medium. And “the basic principles of freedom of speech . . . do not vary” with a new and different communication medium. Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wil-son, 343 U. S. 495, 503. The most basic principle—that government lacks the power to restrict expression because of its message, ideas,subject matter, or content, Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Un-ion, 535 U. S. 564, 573—is subject to a few limited exceptions for his-torically unprotected speech, such as obscenity, incitement, and fight-ing words. But a legislature cannot create new categories of unprotected speech simply by weighing the value of a particular category against its social costs and then punishing it if it fails the test. See United States v. Stevens, 559 U. S. ___, ___. Unlike the New York law upheld in Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U. S. 629, Cali-fornia’s Act does not adjust the boundaries of an existing category of unprotected speech to ensure that a definition designed for adults is not uncritically applied to children. Instead, the State wishes to cre-ate a wholly new category of content-based regulation that is permis-sible only for speech directed at children. That is unprecedented and 2 BROWN v. ENTERTAINMENT MERCHANTS ASSN. Syllabus mistaken This country has no tradition of specially restricting chil-dren’s access to depictions of violence. And California’s claim that “interactive” video games present special problems, in that the player participates in the violent action on screen and determines its out-come, is unpersuasive. Pp. 2–11. (b) Because the Act imposes a restriction on the content of pro-tected speech, it is invalid unless California can demonstrate that it passes strict scrutiny, i.e., it is justified by a compelling government interest and is narrowly drawn to serve that interest. R. A. V. v. St. Paul, 505 U. S. 377, 395. California cannot meet that standard. Psy-chological studies purporting to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children do not prove that such exposure causes minors to act aggressively. Any demon-strated effects are both small and indistinguishable from effects pro-duced by other media. Since California has declined to restrict those other media, e.g., Saturday morning cartoons, its video-game regula-tion is wildly underinclusive, raising serious doubts about whether the State is pursuing the interest it invokes or is instead disfavoring a particular speaker or viewpoint. California also cannot show that the Act’s restrictions meet the alleged substantial need of parents who wish to restrict their children’s access to violent videos. The video-game industry’s voluntary rating system already accomplishes that to a large extent. Moreover, as a means of assisting parents the Act is greatly overinclusive, since not all of the children who are pro-hibited from purchasing violent video games have parents who dis-approve of their doing so. The Act cannot satisfy strict scrutiny. Pp. 11–18. 556 F. 3d 950, affirmed. Editor's note: SCALIA, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which KENNEDY, GINSBURG, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., joined. ALITO, J., filed an opin-ion concurring in the judgment, in which ROBERTS, U. S. Supreme Court, Constitutional rights, The Constitution, JusticeFor fellow Lawyers, the case is BROWN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL. v. ENTERTAINMENT MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION ET AL., No. 08–1448. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsCrimeThe ConstitutionPunishmentJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/L_8-TNL3n1Q/u-s-supreme-court-rules-guilty-plea.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0The case is Freeman v. United States, 09-10-245. You can read the case here. You guessed it: below is your long synopsis: In order to reduce unwarranted federal sentencing disparities, the...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe ConstitutionJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/NAKSLdNmdPU/u-s-supreme-court-finds-there-is-no.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0This case is TURNER v. ROGERS ET AL., No. 10–10. You can read the entire case here, or read the long, but important synopsis, which follows below: After a South Carolina family court ordered...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe ConstitutionJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/NTD90QgB4Ts/u-s-supreme-court-rules-that-private.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0The case is BOROUGH OF DURYEA, PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL. v. GUARNIERI, No. 09–1476. The case can be found here. Check out the synopsis below: After petitioner borough fired respondent Guarnieri as...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsCrimeThe ConstitutionPunishmentJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/Sk7yDa2vSUk/well-ill-be-liberal-justices-ginsburg.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0The case is BULLCOMING v. NEW MEXICO, No. 09–10876, and can be read here. A long synopsis appears below from the court: The Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause gives the accused “[i]nall...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/zJ8rhrNviAk/u-supreme-court-hands-twin-victories-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0Justices ruled today that generic drug makers cannot be sued by injured patients in most cases and that drug manufacturers have a 1st Amendment right to buy private prescription records to use for...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe ConstitutionJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/0CTqnFTKfrw/breaking-news-u-s-supreme-court-sides.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0The case is WAL-MART STORES, INC. v. DUKES ET AL., No. 10–277. A long synopsis of the opinion is below: Respondents, current or former employees of petitioner Wal-Mart, sought judgment against the...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsCrimeThe ConstitutionPunishmenthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/lKOD-TA4UZQ/in-case-you-missed-it-u-s-supreme-court.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0The case is Bond Versus United States, and you can read it here. A synopsis is below: When petitioner Bond discovered that her close friend was pregnant byBond’s husband, she began harassing the...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsCrimeThe ConstitutionPunishmenthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/U0ouZGB03Ls/in-another-u-s-supreme-court-case-court.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0The US Supreme Court ruled yesterday in a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in the case of DePierre v. United States, that the harsher sentences under a federal anti-drug statute...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsCrimeThe ConstitutionPunishmenthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/17msuZgG3C0/u-s-supreme-court-rules-that-fleeing-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0noSupreme Court finds fleeing in vehicle is violent felony The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Sykes v. United States that fleeing after being ordered to stop is a violent felony within the meaning of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) [18 USC § 924(e)]. Junoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)Supreme Court finds fleeing in vehicle is violent felony The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Sykes v. United States that fleeing after being ordered to stop is a violent felony within the meaning of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) [18 USC § 924(e)]. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote for the majority, analyzed the case by comparing the violence in running to the violence in burglaries: Burglary is dangerous because it can end in confrontation leading to violence. The same is true of vehicle flight, but to an even greater degree. The attempt to elude capture is a direct challenge to an officer's authority. It is a provocative and dangerous act that dares, and in a typical case requires, the officer to give chase. The felon's conduct gives the officer reason to believe that the defendant has something more serious than a traffic violation to hide. Justice Clarence Thomas filed a concurring opinion. His colleagues, Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, dissented, writing that they believe there are too many distinctions in ways to flee a police officer to rule all of them "violent felonies". Thus, "a person may fail to heed an officer's command to pull over, but otherwise drive in a lawful manner, perhaps just trying to find a better place to stop," they observed. In a weird coalition, Justice Antonin Scalia also dissented, but focused his remarks on the vagueness of the law itself. According to Scalia: "We try to include an ACCA residual-clause case in about every second or third volume of the United States Reports. As was perhaps predictable, instead of producing a clarification of the Delphic residual clause, today's opinion produces a fourth ad hoc judgment that will sow further confusion. Insanity, it has been said, is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. Four times is enough. We should admit that ACCA's residual provision is a drafting failure and declare it void for vagueness." Kennedy addressed this in the majority opinion, by observing that "[a]lthough this approach may at times be more difficult for courts to implement, it is within congressional power to enact." Editor's note: The residual clause of the ACCA states that, "the term 'violent felony' means any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, or 'otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another." ACCA's intent appears to be to impose harsher and longer sentences on "career criminals." The Court has analyzed this intent several times in recent terms. For instance, the Court unanimously ruled in McNeill v. United States that a federal sentencing court must determine whether "an offense under State law" is a "serious drug offense" under the ACCA by consulting the "maximum term of imprisonment" applicable to a defendant's prior state drug offense at the time of the defendant's conviction for that offense. (Please also note: Earlier, this past March, the court ruled in Johnson v. United States that a "violent felony" requires the use of physical force. The Court declared in Chambers v. United States that failure to report to prison does not constitute a "violent felony" in January 2009. United States v. Rodriquez decided in May 2008, clarified that for purposes of increasing a sentence under the ACCA a conviction qualifies as a predicate serious drug offense even when the crime is made punishable by a 10-year prison term only because of additional penalties imposed on repeat offenders.)U. S. Supreme Court, Constitutional rights, Crime, The Constitution, PunishmentSupreme Court finds fleeing in vehicle is violent felony The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Sykes v. United States that fleeing after being ordered to stop is a violent felony within the meaning of...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtCrimePunishmentJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/gsZut-rbk2I/breaking-great-news-u-s-supreme-court.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)1The case is CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ET AL. v. WHITING ET AL., No. 09–115. Click on the case name to read the opinion. Here's how the Justices ruled: ROBERTS, C. J.,...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsCrimeThe ConstitutionPunishmentJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/OJCPaRolggo/u-s-supreme-court-orders-california-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0The case is BROWN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL. v.PLATA ET AL., No. 09–1233. Click on the case name to read the 5 to 4 decision.<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsCrimeThe ConstitutionPunishmentJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/RPVq2p7Wmhw/breaking-news-us-supreme-court-rules.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0noThe case is: KENTUCKY v. KING CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF KENTUCKY, No. 09–1272. According to the opinion: Police officers in Lexington, Kentucky, followed a suspected drug dealerto an apartment complex. They smelled marijuana outside anapartment dnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)The case is: KENTUCKY v. KING CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF KENTUCKY, No. 09–1272. According to the opinion: Police officers in Lexington, Kentucky, followed a suspected drug dealerto an apartment complex. They smelled marijuana outside anapartment door, knocked loudly, and announced their presence. As soon as the officers began knocking, they heard noises coming from the apartment; the officers believed that these noises were consistent with the destruction of evidence. The officers announced their intent to enter the apartment, kicked in the door, and found respondent andothers. They saw drugs in plain view during a protective sweep of the apartment and found additional evidence during a subsequentsearch. The Circuit Court denied respondent’s motion to suppress the evidence, holding that exigent circumstances—the need to pre-vent destruction of evidence—justified the warrantless entry. Re-spondent entered a conditional guilty plea, reserving his right to ap-peal the suppression ruling, and the Kentucky Court of Appeals affirmed. The Supreme Court of Kentucky reversed. The court as-sumed that exigent circumstances existed, but it nonetheless invali-dated the search. The exigent circumstances rule did not apply, thecourt held, because the police should have foreseen that their conductwould prompt the occupants to attempt to destroy evidence. Held: 1. The exigent circumstances rule applies when the police do notcreate the exigency by engaging or threatening to engage in conductthat violates the Fourth Amendment. Pp. 5–16. (a) The Fourth Amendment expressly imposes two requirements:All searches and seizures must be reasonable; and a warrant may notbe issued unless probable cause is properly established and the scope of the authorized search is set out with particularity. Although“ ‘searches and seizures inside a home without a warrant are pre-sumptively unreasonable,’ ” Brigham City v. Stuart, 547 U. S. 398, 2 KENTUCKY v. KING Syllabus 403, this presumption may be overcome when “ ‘the exigencies of the situation’ make the needs of law enforcement so compelling that [a]warrantless search is objectively reasonable under the Fourth Amendment,” Mincey v. Arizona, 437 U. S. 385, 394. One such exi-gency is the need “to prevent the imminent destruction of evidence.” Brigham City, supra, at 403. Pp. 5–6. (b) Under the “police-created exigency” doctrine, which lower courts have developed as an exception to the exigent circumstancesrule, exigent circumstances do not justify a warrantless search whenthe exigency was “created” or “manufactured” by the conduct of the police. The lower courts have not agreed, however, on the test for de-termining when police impermissibly create an exigency. Pp. 7–8. (c) The proper test follows from the principle that permits war-rantless searches: warrantless searches are allowed when the cir-cumstances make it reasonable, within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, to dispense with the warrant requirement. Thus, a warrantless entry based on exigent circumstances is reasonable whenthe police did not create the exigency by engaging or threatening toengage in conduct violating the Fourth Amendment. A similar ap-proach has been taken in other cases involving warrantless searches. For example, officers may seize evidence in plain view if they havenot violated the Fourth Amendment in arriving at the spot from which the observation of the evidence is made, see Horton v. Califor-nia, 496 U. S. 128, 136–140; and they may seek consent-based en-counters if they are lawfully present in the place where the consen-sual encounter occurs, see INS v. Delgado, 466 U. S. 210, 217, n. 5. Pp. 8–10. (d) Some courts, including the Kentucky Supreme Court, have imposed additional requirements—asking whether officers “ ‘deliber-ately created the exigent circumstances with the bad faith intent toavoid the warrant requirement,’ ” 302 S. W. 3d 649, 656 (case below);reasoning that police may not rely on an exigency if “ ‘it was reaU. S. Supreme Court, Constitutional rights, Crime, The Constitution, Punishment, JusticeThe case is: KENTUCKY v. KING CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF KENTUCKY, No. 09–1272. 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You buy something on Ebay and you don't like it? Forget suing in Kentucky. Read the court's very thoughtful opinion in the case of Hinners V. Robey. Practice pointer: To my fellow practitioners of the law: Please note that this canoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)Yes, you heard it right! You buy something on Ebay and you don't like it? Forget suing in Kentucky. Read the court's very thoughtful opinion in the case of Hinners V. Robey. Practice pointer: To my fellow practitioners of the law: Please note that this case is NOT limited to Ebay sales, but extends to ALL internet commerce styled like Ebay, where the sale is offered to EVERYONE and the seller does NOT specifically target Kentucky buyers.Constitutional rights, Kentucky Supreme Court, The Constitution, JusticeYes, you heard it right! You buy something on Ebay and you don't like it? Forget suing in Kentucky. Read the court's very thoughtful opinion in the case of Hinners V. Robey. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe Constitutionhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/crevzVgVEdk/as-i-predicted-here-u-s-supreme-court.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)1The case is Snyder Vs. Phelps, and you can read the 8 to 1 decision/opinion here. Many of you will guess that the lone dissenter in the case is one of the liberal Justices, but you would be wrong....<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe ConstitutionJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/lpQHe2zSWik/breaking-news-u-s-supreme-court.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)2noThe case is MCDONALD ET AL. v. CITY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ET AL, No. 08–1521. Argued March 2, 2010—Decided June 28, 2010. Below is a synopsis of the case from the Supreme Court (you can read the case by clicking here): Two years ago, in District of Columbnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)The case is MCDONALD ET AL. v. CITY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ET AL, No. 08–1521. Argued March 2, 2010—Decided June 28, 2010. Below is a synopsis of the case from the Supreme Court (you can read the case by clicking here): Two years ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. ___, this Court held that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense and struck down a District of Columbia law that banned the possession of handguns in the home. Chicago (hereinafter City) and the village of Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, have laws effectively banning handgun possession by almost all private citizens. After Heller, petitioners filed this federal suit against the City, which was consolidated with two related actions, alleging that the City’s handgun ban has left them vulnerable to criminals. They sought a declaration that the ban and several re-lated City ordinances violate the Second and Fourteenth Amend-ments. Rejecting petitioners’ argument that the ordinances are un-constitutional, the court noted that the Seventh Circuit previously had upheld the constitutionality of a handgun ban, that Heller had explicitly refrained from opining on whether the Second Amendment applied to the States, and that the court had a duty to follow established Circuit precedent. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, relying on three 19th-century cases—United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542, Presser v. Illinois, 116 U. S. 252, and Miller v. Texas, 153 U. S. 535— which were decided in the wake of this Court’s interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities Clause in the Slaughter-House Cases, 16 Wall. 36. Held: The judgment is reversed, and the case is remanded. 567 F. 3d 856, reversed and remanded. JUSTICE ALITO delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II–A, II–B, II–D, III–A, and III–B, concluding that the Four- 2 MCDONALD v. CHICAGO Syllabus teenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment right, recognized in Heller, to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense. Pp. 5–9, 11–19, 19–33. (a) Petitioners base their case on two submissions. Primarily, they argue that the right to keep and bear arms is protected by the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and that the Slaughter-House Cases’ narrow interpretation of the Clause should now be rejected. As a secondary argument, they contend that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause incorporates the Second Amendment right. Chicago and Oak Park (municipal respondents) maintain that a right set out in the Bill of Rights applies to the States only when it is an indispensable attribute of any “ ‘civilized’ ” legal system. If it is possible to imagine a civilized country that does not recognize the right, municipal respondents assert, that right is not protected by due process. And since there are civilized countries that ban or strictly regulate the private possession of hand-guns, they maintain that due process does not preclude such meas-ures. Pp. 4–5. (b) The Bill of Rights, including the Second Amendment, originally applied only to the Federal Government, not to the States, see, e.g., Barron ex rel. Tiernan v. Mayor of Baltimore, 7 Pet. 243, 247, but the constitutional Amendments adopted in the Civil War’s aftermath fundamentally altered the federal system. Four years after the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, this Court held in the Slaughter-House Cases, that the Privileges or Immunities Clause protects only those rights “which owe their existence to the Federal government, its National character, its Constitution, or its laws,” 16 Wall., at 79, and that the fundamental rights predating the creation of the Federal Government were not protected by the Clause, id., at 76. Under this narrow reading, the Court held that the Privileges or Immunities Clause protects only very limited rights. Id., at 79–80. Subsequently, the Court held that the Second Amendment applies only to the Federal GU. S. Supreme Court, Constitutional rights, The Constitution, JusticeThe case is MCDONALD ET AL. v. CITY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ET AL, No. 08–1521. Argued March 2, 2010—Decided June 28, 2010. Below is a synopsis of the case from the Supreme Court (you can read the case...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe Constitutionhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/rUrVJo8mZio/u-s-supreme-court-rules-public-can-know.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0Sign a political petition? Supreme Court says the public can know. The case centered on a Washington State referendum on a domestic partnership law. Fear of harassment, the Supreme Court ruled, is...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe Constitutionhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/QOEA-fmYg30/u-s-supreme-court-sides-with-florida-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0The Supreme Court rejected a property-rights claim from some disgruntled owners of beach front in Florida Thursday, upholding instead the state's authority to pump new new sand onto an eroded shore...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsCrimeThe ConstitutionPunishmenthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/LfUoVTwX5Hg/for-those-of-us-who-practice-criminal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0The case is DILLON v. UNITED STATES, No. 09–6338. Read the court's synopsis below: In 1993, petitioner Dillon was convicted of, inter alia, crack and powder cocaine offenses, which produced a base...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe Constitutionhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/Syy-1Siy-5A/for-those-of-us-who-practice-bankruptcy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)1The case is SCHWAB v. REILLY, No. 08–538. Read the syllabus from the court below: Respondent Reilly filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy when her catering business failed. She supported her petition...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe ConstitutionJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/GuFEx_LQ18k/u-s-supreme-court-rules-unanimously.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0noThe case, which reversed the Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Decision, is CITY OF ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA, ET AL. v. QUON, No. 08–1332. Below is the Court's issued summary, taken verbatim from the case: Petitioner Ontario (hereinafter City) acquired alphanumernoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)The case, which reversed the Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Decision, is CITY OF ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA, ET AL. v. QUON, No. 08–1332. Below is the Court's issued summary, taken verbatim from the case: Petitioner Ontario (hereinafter City) acquired alphanumeric pagersable to send and receive text messages. Its contract with its service provider, Arch Wireless, provided for a monthly limit on the numberof characters each pager could send or receive, and specified that us-age exceeding that number would result in an additional fee. The City issued the pagers to respondent Quon and other officers in its police department (OPD), also a petitioner here. When Quon and others exceeded their monthly character limits for several monthsrunning, petitioner Scharf, OPD’s chief, sought to determine whether the existing limit was too low, i.e., whether the officers had to payfees for sending work-related messages or, conversely, whether the overages were for personal messages. After Arch Wireless provided transcripts of Quon’s and another employee’s August and September2002 text messages, it was discovered that many of Quon’s messageswere not work related, and some were sexually explicit. Scharf re-ferred the matter to OPD’s internal affairs division. The investigat-ing officer used Quon’s work schedule to redact from his transcript any messages he sent while off duty, but the transcript showed that few of his on-duty messages related to police business. Quon was dis-ciplined for violating OPD rules. He and the other respondents—each of whom had exchanged text messages with Quon during August and September—filed this suit,alleging, inter alia, that petitioners violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA) by obtain-ing and reviewing the transcript of Quon’s pager messages, and thatArch Wireless violated the SCA by giving the City the transcript.The District Court denied respondents summary judgment on the 2 ONTARIO v. QUON Syllabus constitutional claims, relying on the plurality opinion in O’Connor v. Ortega, 480 U. S. 709, to determine that Quon had a reasonable ex-pectation of privacy in the content of his messages. Whether the au-dit was nonetheless reasonable, the court concluded, turned on whether Scharf used it for the improper purpose of determining if Quon was using his pager to waste time, or for the legitimate purposeof determining the efficacy of existing character limits to ensure thatofficers were not paying hidden work-related costs. After the juryconcluded that Scharf’s intent was legitimate, the court granted peti-tioners summary judgment on the ground they did not violate theFourth Amendment. The Ninth Circuit reversed. Although it agreedthat Quon had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his text mes-sages, the appeals court concluded that the search was not reason-able even though it was conducted on a legitimate, work-related ra-tionale. The opinion pointed to a host of means less intrusive than the audit that Scharf could have used. The court further concluded that Arch Wireless had violated the SCA by giving the City the tran-script. Held: Because the search of Quon’s text messages was reasonable, peti-tioners did not violate respondents’ Fourth Amendment rights, andthe Ninth Circuit erred by concluding otherwise. Pp. 7–17. (a) The Amendment guarantees a person’s privacy, dignity, and se-curity against arbitrary and invasive governmental acts, without re-gard to whether the government actor is investigating crime or per-forming another function. Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives’ Assn., 489 U. S. 602, 613–614. It applies as well when the govern-ment acts in its capacity as an employer. Treasury Employees v. Von Raab, 489 U. S. 656, 665. The Members of the O’Connor Court dis-agreed on the proper analytical framework for Fourth Amendment claims against government employers. A four-Justice plurality con-cluded that the correct analysis has two steps. First, because “some [governmentU. S. Supreme Court, Constitutional rights, The Constitution, JusticeThe case, which reversed the Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Decision, is CITY OF ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA, ET AL. v. QUON, No. 08–1332. Below is the Court's issued summary, taken verbatim from the...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe ConstitutionJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/4kZE4Ux0qxs/u-s-supreme-court-government-can.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0The case is UNITED STATES v. COMSTOCK ET AL, No. 08–1224. Argued January 12, 2010—Decided May 17, 2010 Below are pertinent facts and ruling: Federal law allows a district court to order the civil...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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S. Supreme CourtConstitutional rightsThe ConstitutionJusticehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlackRobesSpeak/~3/Nb1HHXILiKM/split-5-to-4-u-s-supreme-court-it-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (KYJurisDoctor)0The case is GRAHAM v. FLORIDA, No. 08–7412. Argued November 9, 2009—Decided May 17, 2010. Below are pertinent facts and judgment: Petitioner Graham was 16 when he committed armed burglary and...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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