Supreme Court Developments
Supreme Court Developments: "By The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Monday, October 31, 2005; 1:12 PM
-- These are the highlights of actions taken Monday by the Supreme Court. The justices:
_Agreed to clarify the rights of longtime illegal immigrants to seek permission to stay in the United States.
_Refused to disturb New York's system of taxing the income of some telecommuters who live elsewhere but are employed by companies in the Empire state.
_Said it would consider a patent infringement case involving a test that helps predict strokes, heart attacks and dementia.
_Rejected an appeal from Microsoft Corp. in a $521 million patent case.
_Turned down a challenge to California's Coastal Commission.
_Reversed a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that jailed defendants who do their own legal work have a constitutional right to a law library.
_Agreed to hear two Sixth Amendment cases on defendants' rights to confront witnesses against them. In one, an Indiana man was convicted of domestic battery based on a signed affidavit by his wife, who was not present for his bench trial. The second involves statements in a 911 phone call.
_Rejected an appeal from Celebrity Cruises over a $1 million jury award to a woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted in 1999 by her waiter on a cruise to Bermuda.
_Refused to consider throwing out class-action lawsuits that accuse cell phone makers of failing to protect users from unsafe levels of radiation.
_Declined to consider whether California was wrongly ordered to pay legal bills of insurance companies that challenged a state law requiring them to make public their overseas, Holocaust-era records."
I found this very interesting, I think it is neat to see what kind of things the Supreme Court decides.
The Associated Press
Monday, October 31, 2005; 1:12 PM
-- These are the highlights of actions taken Monday by the Supreme Court. The justices:
_Agreed to clarify the rights of longtime illegal immigrants to seek permission to stay in the United States.
_Refused to disturb New York's system of taxing the income of some telecommuters who live elsewhere but are employed by companies in the Empire state.
_Said it would consider a patent infringement case involving a test that helps predict strokes, heart attacks and dementia.
_Rejected an appeal from Microsoft Corp. in a $521 million patent case.
_Turned down a challenge to California's Coastal Commission.
_Reversed a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that jailed defendants who do their own legal work have a constitutional right to a law library.
_Agreed to hear two Sixth Amendment cases on defendants' rights to confront witnesses against them. In one, an Indiana man was convicted of domestic battery based on a signed affidavit by his wife, who was not present for his bench trial. The second involves statements in a 911 phone call.
_Rejected an appeal from Celebrity Cruises over a $1 million jury award to a woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted in 1999 by her waiter on a cruise to Bermuda.
_Refused to consider throwing out class-action lawsuits that accuse cell phone makers of failing to protect users from unsafe levels of radiation.
_Declined to consider whether California was wrongly ordered to pay legal bills of insurance companies that challenged a state law requiring them to make public their overseas, Holocaust-era records."
I found this very interesting, I think it is neat to see what kind of things the Supreme Court decides.
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