Index | October | November | December | January | February | March | April
November 2000 Wednesday, November 1
ILLINOIS v. McARTHUR
No. 99-1132
Subject:
Fourth Amendment, Search and Seizure, Securing Dwelling While Awaiting Warrant
Question:
Whether police officers who have probable cause to believe that a residence contains incriminating evidence may
temporarily prevent entry in order to preserve the evidence while they seek a search warrant.
Decisions:
Resources:
- Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Oral Argument
Transcript From the U.S. Supreme Court.
-
Northwestern
University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket
Briefs:
Tennessee Supreme Court - Western Division,
Filed: May 24, 1999
United
States Supreme Court, Decided: May 14, 2001
Resources:
- Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Oral Argument
Transcript From the U.S. Supreme Court.
-
Northwestern
University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket
Briefs:
Monday, November 6
CIRCUIT CITY STORES, INC. v. ADAMS
No. 99-1379
Subject:
Arbitration, Federal Arbitration Act, Employment Contracts
Question:
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding, directly contrary to the holding of every other United States Court
of Appeals, that the Federal Arbitration Act does not apply to contracts of employement?
Decisions:
Resources:
- Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Oral Argument
Transcript From the U.S. Supreme Court.
-
Northwestern
University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket
Briefs:
COOK v. GRALIKE
No. 99-929
Subject:
U.S. Congress, Term Limits
Question:
- Do the people violate Article V of the Constitution when they participate in the evolution of their
government by communicating their opinion to federal legislators or by commenting on the ballot to
themselves about the behavior of federal legislative candidates?
- Do the people violate the Qualifications Clauses and the First Amendment when they comment on the ballot
regarding their elected representative's actions and voting record or when they comment on the ballot about
a non-incumbent congressional candidate's silence concerning a prospective constitutional amendment?
- Does the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution prohibit the people from commenting on the ballot
about their federal legislator's actions and voting record in regard to a prospective constitutional
amendment?
Decisions:
Resources:
- Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Oral Argument
Transcript From the U.S. Supreme Court.
-
Northwestern
University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket
Briefs:
Tuesday, November 7
Whitman, Administrator of EPA, et al. v. American Trucking Associations, Inc., et
al.
(Browner, Administrator of EPA v. American Trucking Associations, Inc., et al.)
No. 99-1257
Subject:
Clean Air Act, Environmental Protection Agency, National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Question:
- Whether Section 109 of the Clean Air Act (CAA), 42 U.S.C. 7409, as interpreted by the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) in setting revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and
particulate matter, effects an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power.
- Whether the court of appeals exceeded its jurisdiction by reviewing, as a final agency action that is ripe
for review, EPA's preliminary preamble statements on the scope of the agency's authority to implement the
revised "eight-hour" ozone NAAQS.
- Whether provisions of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 specifically aimed at achieving the long-delayed
attainment of the then-existing ozone NAAQS restrict EPA's general authority under other provisions of the
CAA to implement a new and more protective ozone NAAQS until the prior standard is attained.
Decisions:
Resources:
Briefs:
AM. TRUCKING ASSNS. v. BROWNER
No. 99-1426
Subject:
Clean Air Act, Environmental Protection Agency, National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Question:
- Whether the court of appeals properly reaffirmed the long-standing principle that, in setting and
revising National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) under Section 109 of the Clean Air Act, the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may not consider the costs, technical feasibility, or other alleged
effects of implementing measures to attain the NAAQS (Nos. 99-1426 and 99-1431).
- Whether the court of appeals properly resolved various claims, by postponing decision or rejecting them
outright, that EPA's primary and secondary NAAQS for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) are inadequate to
protect public health and welfare (No. 99-1442).
Decisions:
Resources:
Briefs:
Wednesday, November 8
UNITED STATES v. MEAD CORP.
No. 99-1434
Subject:
International Trade, U.S. Customs Service, Day Planners, Harmonized Tariff Schedules of the United States
(HTSUS)
Question:
- Whether classification rulings issued by the Customs Service are entitled to deference in determining the
proper tariff classification of imported goods.
- Whether the Customs Service reasonably interpreted the statutory phrase "diaries, notebooks and address
books, bound" in Subheading 4820.10.20 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to
include the spiral-bound and ring-bound day planners imported by respondent.
Decisions:
Resources:
- Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Oral Argument
Transcript From the U.S. Supreme Court.
-
Northwestern
University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket
Briefs:
EGELHOFF v. EGELHOFF
No. 99-1529
Subject:
ERISA, Preemption, Pension, Life Insurance
Question:
Whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1001 et seq., preempts a state
law that purports to revoke the designation of beneficiary made pursuant to the terms of an ERISA plan.
Decisions:
Resources:
- Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Oral Argument
Transcript From the U.S. Supreme Court.
-
Northwestern
University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket
Briefs:
Monday, November 27
HUNT v. CROMARTIE
SMALLWOOD v. CROMARTIE
Nos. 99-1864, 99-1865
Subject:
Voting Districts, Race
Question:
Decisions:
Resources:
- Docket Sheet (99-1864) From the U.S. Supreme
Court.
- Docket Sheet (99-1865) From the U.S. Supreme
Court.
- Oral Argument
Transcript From the U.S. Supreme Court.
-
Northwestern
University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket
Briefs:
Amicus - Appellants:
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [TEXT]
- Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law et al. [PDF]
- United States [PDF] [TEXT] [RTF]
U.S. Court of Appeals - 7th Circuit,
Filed: July 15, 1999 (Unpublished)
United
States Supreme Court, Decided: January 9, 2001
Resources:
- Docket Sheet (99-8576) From the U.S.
Supreme Court.
- Oral Argument
Transcript From the U.S. Supreme Court.
-
Northwestern
University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket
Briefs:
Parties:
- Respondent United States [PDF] [TEXT] [RTF]
- Petitioner - Reply [PDF]
Tuesday, November 28
CITY NEWS NOVELTY, INC. v. CITY OF WAUKESHA
No. 99-1680
Subject:
First Amendment, Adult Bookstore, Licensing
Question:
Is a licensing scheme which acts as a prior restraint required to contain explicit language which prevents
injury to a speaker's rights from want of a prompt judicial decision?
Decisions:
Resources:
Briefs:
DIR. OF REVENUE OF MO v. COBANK ACB
No. 99-1792
Subject:
State Taxation, Exemption, Federally Chartered Instrumentalities
Question:
Whether the State of Missouri, consistently with 12 U.S.C. 2134, may tax the income of the National Bank for
Cooperatives, a federally chartered instrumentality.
Decisions:
Resources:
- Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Oral Argument
Transcript From the U.S. Supreme Court.
-
Northwestern
University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket
Briefs:
Wednesday, November 29
TRAFFIX DEVICES, INC. v. MARKETING DISPLAYS, INC.
No. 99-1571
Subject:
Trademark, Trade Dress
Question:
Whether federal trade dress protection extends to a product configuration -- such as the one at issue in this
case -- covered by an expired utility patent.
Decisions:
Resources:
- Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Oral Argument
Transcript From the U.S. Supreme Court.
-
Northwestern
University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket
Briefs:
LEWIS v. LEWIS & CLARK MARINE, INC.
No. 99-1331
Subject:
Admiralty, Jurisdiction, Jones Act
Question:
- Does the district court abuse its discretion by dissolving the injuction against state court proceedings
in a single claimant limitation of liability case (46 U.S.C.A. §181, et seq. (Supp.1998)) when the claimant
has fully protected the shipowner's right to limitation?
- If so, does the Saving To Suitors Clause of 28 U.S.C.A. §1333(2) (1993) mandate dissolution of the injuction
to allow the claimant to proceed with his Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. §688 (Supp.1998) case in state court?
Decisions:
Resources:
- Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Oral Argument
Transcript From the U.S. Supreme Court.
-
Northwestern
University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket
Briefs: