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November 2003 [Download November 2003 Argument Calendar PDF]
[Click here for 2002 Docket] Monday, November 3

Andrew J. Kontrick v. Robert A. Ryan
No. 02-819

Subject:

Bankruptcy Law, Rule 4004

Question:

Bankruptcy Rule 4004 sets the deadline for objecting to a debtor's discharge in bankruptcy. The question presented is whether the deadline set by Rule 4004 is mandatory and jurisdictional and thus cannot be waived.

Decisions:

• U.S. Court of Appeals - 7th Circuit [PDF], Filed: July 8, 2002
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: April 28, 2003
• United States Supreme Court, Decided: January 14, 2004

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Oral Argument Transcript
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

Parties
• Petitioner (Merits) [PDF]
• Respondent (Merits) [PDF]
• Petitioner - Reply (Merits) [PDF]

Maryland v. Joseph Jermaine Pringle
No. 02-809

Subject:

Fourth Amendment, Search and Seizure, Criminal Law

Question:

Where drugs and a roll of cash are found in the passenger compartment of a car with multiple occupants, and all deny ownership, does the Fourth Amendment prohibit a police officer form arresting the occupants of the car?

Decisions:

• Maryland Court of Appeals, Filed: August 27, 2002
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: March 24, 2003
• United States Supreme Court, Decided: December 15, 2003

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Oral Argument Transcript
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

Parties
• Petitioner (Merits) [PDF]
• Respondent (Merits) [PDF]
• Petitioner - Reply (Merits) [PDF]

Tuesday, November 4

Jeff Groh v. Joseph R. Ramirez, et al.
No. 02-811

Subject:

Search Warrants, Fourth Amendment, Qualified Immunity, Criminal Law, Civil Rights

Question:

1. Whether the Ninth Circuit properly ruled that a law enforcement officer violated clearly established law, and thus was personally liable in damages and not entitled to qualified immunity, when at the time he acted there was no decision by the Supreme Court or any other court so holding, and the only lower court decisions addressing the issue had found the same conduct did not violate the law.
   
   
2. Whether law enforcement officers violate the particularity requirement of the 4th Amendment when they execute a search warrant already approved by a magistrate judge, based on an attached application and affidavit properly describing with particularity the items to be searched and seized, but the warrant itself does not include the same level of detail.

Decisions:

• U.S. Court of Appeals - 9th Circuit [PDF], Amended Opinion Filed: July 25, 2002
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: March 3, 2003
• United States Supreme Cour, Decided: February 24, 2004

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Oral Argument Transcript
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

Parties
• Petitioner (Merits) [PDF]
• Respondents (Merits) [PDF]
• Petitioner - Reply (Merits) [PDF]

United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. Charles E. Edwards
No. 02-1196

Subject:

Investment Contracts, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Securities Law

Question:

Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing the complaint on the ground that an investment scheme is excluded from the term "investment contract" in the definitions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(10), if the promoter promises a fixed rather than variable return or if the investor is contractually entitled to a particular amount or rate of return?

Decisions:

• U.S. Court of Appeals - 11th Circuit, Filed: August 6, 2002
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: April 21, 2003
• United States Supreme Court, Decided: January 13, 2004

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Oral Argument Transcript
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

Parties
• Petitioner - Reply (Petition) [PDF] [RTF] [TEXT]
  
  
• Petitioner (Merits) [PDF] [TEXT]
• Respondent (Merits) [PDF]
• Petitioner - Reply (Merits) [PDF] [TEXT]

Wednesday, November 5

State of Arizona v. Rodney J. Gant
No. 02-1019

Subject:

Search and Seizure, Fourth Amendment, Criminal Law

Question:

When police arrest the recent occupant of a vehicle outside the vehicle, are they precluded from searching the vehicle pursuant to New York v. Belton, 453 U.S. 454 (1981), unless the arrestee was actually or constructively aware of the police before getting out of the vehicle?

Decisions:

• Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two, Filed: March 29, 2002
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: April 21, 2003
• United States Supreme Court, Vacated and Remanded: October 20, 2003

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

Parties
• Petitioner (Merits) [PDF]
• Respondent (Merits) [PDF]
• Petitioner - Reply (Merits) [PDF]
• Respondent - Supplemental (Merits) [PDF]

State of Illinois v. Robert S. Lidster
No. 02-1060

Subject:

Vehicle Checkpoints, Fourth Amendment, Criminal Law

Question:

Whether Indianapolis v. Edmond, 531 U.S. 32 (2000), prohibits police officers from conducting a checkpoint organized to investigate a prior offense, stopping all oncoming motorists to hand out flyers about the offense and arresting motorists for drunk driving.

Decisions:

• Illinois Supreme Court, Filed: October 18, 2002
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: May 5, 2003
• United States Supreme Court, Decided: January 13, 2004

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Oral Argument Transcript
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

Parties
• Petitioner (Merits) [PDF]
• Respondent (Merits) [PDF]
• Petitioner - Reply (Merits) [PDF]

Monday, November 10

John M. Lamie v. United States Trustee
No. 02-693

Subject:

Bankruptcy, Attorney's Fees, 11 U.S.C. 330(a)(1)

Question:

Does 11 U.S.C. 330(a)(1) authorize a court to award fees to a debtor's attorney?

Decisions:

• U.S. Court of Appeals - 4th Circuit, Filed: May 31, 2002
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: March 10, 2003
• United States Supreme Court, Decided: January 26, 2004

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Oral Argument Transcript
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

• Petitioner (Petition) [PDF]
• Respondent - Response (Petition) [PDF] [RTF] [TEXT]
  
  
• Petitioner (Merits) [PDF]
• Respondent (Merits) [PDF] [TEXT]
• Petitioner - Reply (Merits) [PDF]

Michael D. Crawford v. State of Washington
No. 02-9410

Subject:

Sixth Amendment, Confrontation Clause, Criminal Law

Question:

1. Whether the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment permits the admission against a criminal defendant of a custodial statement by a potential accomplice on the ground that parts of the statement "interlock" with the defendant's custodial statement.
   
   
2. Whether the Confrontation Clause framework established in Ohio v. Roberts, 448 U.S. 56 (1980) should be reevaluated and read to unequivocally prohibit the admission of out-of-court statements insofar as they are contained in "testimonial" materials, such as tape-recorded custodial statements.

Decisions:

• Supreme Court of Washington, Filed: September 26 2002
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: June 9, 2003
• United States Supreme Court, Decided: March 2, 2004

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Oral Argument Transcript
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

Parties
• Petitioner (Merits) [PDF]
• Respondent (Merits) [PDF]

Wednesday, November 12

General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc. v. Dennis Cline, et al.
No. 02-1080

Subject:

Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Reverse Discrimination, Equal Protection

Question:

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding, contrary to decisions of the First and Seventh Circuits, that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.C. 621-634, prohibits "reverse discrimination," i.e., employer actions, practices, or policies that treat older workers more favorably than younger workers who are at least 40 years old.

Decisions:

• U.S. Court of Appeals - 6th Circuit, Filed: July 22, 2002
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: April 21, 2003
• United States Supreme Cour, Decided: February 24, 2004

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Oral Argument Transcript
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

Parties
• Petitioner (Petition) [PDF]
• Petitioner - Reply (Petition) [PDF]
  
  
• Petitioner (Merits) [PDF] (1.5 MB)
• Respondents (Merits) [PDF]

Olympic Airways v. Rubina Husain, etc., et al.
No. 02-1348

Subject:

Warsaw Convention, Transportation Law, Wrongful Death

Question:

Whether the "accident" condition precedent to air carrier liability for a passenger's death under Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention is satisfied when a passenger's pre-existing medical condition is aggravated by exposure to a normal condition in the aircraft cabin, even if the carrier's negligence was a link in the chain of causation.

Decisions:

• U.S. Court of Appeals - 9th Circuit, Filed: December 12, 2002
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: May 27, 2003
• United States Supreme Court, Decided: February 24, 2004

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Oral Argument Transcript
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

Parties
• Petitioner (Merits) [PDF] (4.7 MB)
• Respondents (Merits) [PDF]
• Petitioner - Reply (Merits) [PDF] (1.8 MB)

 

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