Amchem Prods. v. Windsor Supreme Court of the United States February 18, 1997, Argued ; June 25, 1997, Decided No. 96-270 Case Summary Procedural Posture Petitioners sought review of a judgment from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit...

Universal Health Servs. v. United States ex rel. Escobar Supreme Court of the United States April 19, 2016, Argued; June 16, 2016, Decided No. 15-7 Case Summary Overview HOLDINGS: [1]-The implied false certification theory can be a basis for liability...

Schneckloth v. Bustamonte Supreme Court of the United States October 10, 1972, Argued ; May 29, 1973, Decided No. 71-732 Case Summary Procedural Posture Petitioner sought certiorari to review a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth...

Defendants Gray, a former Kentucky official, and McNally, a private individual, along with one Howard Hunt, the former chairman of the Commonwealth's Democratic Party, were charged with violating 18 U.S.C.S. § 1341 , which prohibited the use...

Based on information that respondent Keith M. Scott, a parolee, had violated the conditions of his parole by such acts as possessing weapons, parole officers entered the former’s home and found firearms, a bow, and arrows. The evidence obtained...

With respect to the Federal Constitution's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, the Supreme Court of United States, in Edwards v. Arizona, announced a rule to the effect that law enforcement officers must immediately cease questioning...

Appellants, a student and four labor picketers, were convicted for violating Cincinnati, Ohio, Code of Ordinances § 901-L6, which made it a criminal offense for three or more persons to assemble on any of the city's sidewalks and there conduct...

Respondent was charged with violating O.G.C.A. § 16-6-2 (1984), which criminalized sodomy. Respondent allegedly engaged in sodomy with another adult male in the bedroom of his home. After the district attorney decided not to present the matter to...

The photographer brought the contract action against the hospital after the hospital declined to fulfill the terms of an agreement permitting the photographer to take and sell pictures of newborn babies.

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