Constitutional Law Legal Directory
The speeding fee tracked by a GPS system and charged by American Car Rental constituted an illegal penalty and was an unfair trade practice offensive to public policy.
Extensive resources on Australian Constitutional Law
Plaintiff-housing authority may not proceed with its revitalization plan where the tenants in the housing have established a prima facie case that closing the units would have a disparate impact on minorities.
Failure to extend a discount or refusing payment by check insufficient to establish racial discrimination
Freedom Expression Network, censorship and free speech
Center for Supreme Court with links to primary Court documents, resources such as court rules and scheduling, history and landmark cases and a listing of some of the cases scheduled for the present term
Article discussing limitations on Freedom of Speech & Expression
Financial charges the County Department of Corrections assessed to a recipient of collect calls made by inmates from its facility did not deny her equal protection.
Due Process clause forbids an extended detention, without a first appearance, following an arrest by warrant and plaintiff's 38-day pre-appearance detention violated his right to due process.
Plaintiff-prisoner failed to put forth objective evidence that he was subjected to unreasonably high levels of environmental tobacco smoke while imprisoned, and the district court did not err in denying his motion for a preliminary injunction.
In a wrongful termination suit, the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's claim for lack of jurisdiction is affirmed where the claim is preempted by the Railway Labor Act, which gives an airline's system board of adjustment exclusive jurisdiction to arbitrate minor disputes.
Prison officials' decision to reject group worship request by member of a church society who's central tenant was espousal of racial separatism was reasonably related to security concerns and was not a violation of plaintiff's First Amendment free exercise rights.
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Recent decisions, glossary, links to briefs
In a section 1983 action, a jury properly found that plaintiff's procedural due process rights were violated; however, its award of punitive damages is vacated where no evidence was available to show that defendant knew he may be violating federal law.
The Federalist Papers on the Emory Law School Web
Defendant's conviction and sentence for aggravated sexual abuse is reversed where he was denied the opportunity to confront his accuser as provided for in the sixth amendment.
Defendant's drug conviction is reversed where the district court violated his Sixth Amendment right to be represented by the counsel of his choice at trial by refusing to grant his attorney's applications for admission pro hac vice.
