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6/28/00: Supreme Court Upholds Two Key
Abortion Rights
6/28/00: Court Says Boy Scouts Can Expel Gay
Leader
6/26/00: Court Upholds Miranda Decision
6/26/00: Blanket-Primary Law Overturned
6/19/00: Court Rules Against Stadium Prayer
Legal News Highlights
with Paul S. Reed 
The latest news from across the U.S. court system compiled and presented by
Current Events: Law Guide Paul S. Reed.
Recent Major Decisions [Complete
list of Supreme Court decisions via FindLaw]
Supreme
Court Upholds Two Key Abortion Rights (AP story via FindLaw)
WASHINGTON (Washington Post) - A bitterly divided Supreme Court handed
abortion rights advocates a double victory yesterday, striking down a state
law that banned the controversial procedure known to critics as "partial
birth" abortion and upholding another state law that restricts protests
outside abortion clinics.
Date Decided: June 28, 2000
Read the Court's Decisions:
Stenberg v. Carhart
(Partial-term abortion state ban struck down)
Hill
v. Colorado (Protests outside abortion clinics.)
Partial-birth
abhorrence
Analysis by Conservative Politics Guide Ted Gausmann.
Five
Justices buy Carhart's bill of goods
Analysis by Pro-life Guide Christian Dunigan.
Supreme
Court strikes Nebraska 'Partial-Birth' abortion ban
Analysis by Pro-choice Guide Margaret Sykes.
"Bubble
Zone" ruling should boost abortion sales
Analysis by Pro-life Guide Chirstina Dunigan.
Court
Says Boy Scouts Can Expel Gay Leader (AP story via FindLaw)
WASHINGTON (Washington Post) - The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Boy
Scouts of America was within its rights when the organization expelled an
adult Scout leader because he is gay.
Date Decided: June 28, 2000
Read the Court's Decision: Boy
Scouts Of America v. Dale
Court
Votes 7-2 to Uphold Miranda Decision (AP story via FindLaw)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Police still must warn criminal suspects of their
``right to remain silent'' when questioned, the Supreme Court said Monday in a
ruling that gave new constitutional luster to its landmark Miranda decision of
1966.
Date Decided: June 26, 2000
Read the Court's Decision: Dickerson
v. United States
Blanket-Primary
Law Overturned (AP story via FindLaw)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Open primaries that allow voters to cast their ballots for
any candidate, regardless of party, violate the rights of state political
parties, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in throwing out California's primary
system.
Date Decided: June 26, 2000
Read the Court's Decision: California
Democratic Party v. Jones
Court
Rules Against Stadium Prayer
(AP story via FindLaw)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court, in the most far-reaching school
prayer decision in nearly a decade, ruled Monday that public school districts
cannot let students lead stadium crowds in prayer before high school football
Date Decided: June 19, 2000
Read the Court's Decision: Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, Jane, etc., et al.
School
prayer case: Cutting to the chase; anticipating the inevitable
Analysis by Law Guide Paul S. Reed.
Court
Nixes Some Lawsuits vs. HMOs (AP story via Findlaw)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Patients cannot sue health maintenance organizations under a
federal law for giving doctors financial bonuses to hold down treatment costs,
the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Date Decided: June 12, 2000
Read the Court's Decision: Pegram,
et al., v. Herdrich
Court
Curbs Grandparents' Rights (AP story via Findlaw)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Drawing a line against government intervention in the lives
of American families, the Supreme Court today struck down a law that gave
grandparents broad rights to seek court-ordered visitation against parents'
wishes.
Date Decided: June 5, 2000
Read the Court's Decision: Troxel
v. Granville
Davidians'
Sentences Set Aside (AP story via Findlaw)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court today set aside the lengthy prison
sentences given to five Branch Davidians who survived a 1993 siege at the
sect's Waco, Texas, compound. The court ruled that a federal judge misused an
anti-gun law to increase their punishment.
Date Decided: June 5, 2000
Read the Court's Decision: Castillo
v. United States
Justice
for Waco Prisoners
About.com analysis by Civil Liberties Guide J.D. Tuccille.
Court
Overturns Cable Sex Rules (AP story via Findlaw)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress violated free-speech rights when it sought to
protect children from sex-oriented cable channels like Playboy Television, the
Supreme Court ruled today
Date Decided: May 22, 2000
Read the Court's Decision: U.S.
vs. Playboy Entertainment Group
Playboy Victory
in Cable TV Regulation Case
Expert analysis of the decision by About.com Guide to Law Current
Events Paul S. Reed.
Court
Rejects Federal Rape Law (AP story via Findlaw)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court today threw out a law that let rape
victims sue their attackers in federal court, saying Congress wrongly trampled
on an area of state authority.
Date Decided: May 15, 2000
Read the Court's Decision: United
States v. Morrison et al.
Supreme
Court Strikes Down Rape Law
About.com analysis by Women's Issues Guide Karen J. Gould
Court
Reaffirms Congressional Limits in Gender-Based Violence Case
About.com analysis from Law Current Events Guide, Paul S. Reed.
Headline/Reality
Crime Guide Bill Bickel points out that rape is still against the
law.
Freedom
From Rape
About.com analysis of the basis of the case that led to the Supreme Court by Women's Issues Guide Karen J. Gould
Court
Upholds Ban on Nude Dancing (Washington Post story via Findlaw)
Date Decided: March 29, 2000
Read the Court's Decision: City
Of Erie v. Pap's A. M.
Nude
Dancing
About.com analysis by Crime & Punishment Guide Bill Bickel
Supreme
Court Affirms Nude Dancing Ban
About.com analysis by US Politics Guide John Aravosis.
Naked
justice
About.com analysis by Civil Liberties Guide J.D. Tuccille.
FDA
Can't Regulate Tobacco (Washington Post story via Findlaw)
Date Decided: March 21, 2000
Read the Court's Decision: FDA
v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.
Supreme Court Rules FDA Cannot
Regulate Tobacco
About.com analysis by your Guide.
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