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Created: Saturday, February 23, 2008 | Total records: 219
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id	Plaintiff	v	Defendant	Vol.	Series	Page	Altern.	Year	Synopsis
201	Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan Assn.	v.	de la Cuesta	458	U.S.	141		1982	A rule or regulation properly promulgated under authority received from Congress is law and under the supremacy clause of the Constitution can preempt state law and supersede a federal statute.
202	Brown	v.	Socialist Workers	459	U.S.	87		1982	Minor party which has historically been harassed is exempt from campaign disclosure requirements.
203	INS	v.	Chadha	462	U.S.	919		1983	Decided against statutes that reserved a "legislative veto" over regulations or executive actions once adopted. Once Congress makes its choice in enacting legislation, its participation ends. Congress can thereafter control the execution of its enactment only indirectly -- by passing new legislation. But White in dissent said that agency rulemaking is lawmaking, implying it is also a violation of the nondelegation doctrine.
204	Griffith	v.	Kentucky	479	U.S.	314		1987	For cases on direct review, "a new rule for the conduct of criminal prosecutions is to be applied retroactively to all cases, state or federal, pending on direct review or not yet final, with no exception for cases in which the new rule constitutes a clear break with the past. But not retroactive for defendants already convicted
205	Young	v.	U.S. ex rel. Vuitton	481	U.S.	787		1987	Court has inherent power to appoint private attorney to prosecute a criminal contempt, but reversed conviction on basis that the private prosecutor appointed represented a party in the case and was therefore not sufficiently disinterested.
206	Bank of Nova Scotia	v.	U.S.	487	U.S.	250		1988	Conviction at trial does not validate error in the indictment, and upon such error the indictment and conviction based on it must be reversed.
207	Morrison	v.	Olson	487	U.S.	654		1988	Courts may appoint special prosecutors to prosecute official corruption.
208	Mistretta	v.	U.S.	488	U.S.	361		1989	Approved placement by Congress of the Sentencing Commission in the judicial branch. Scalia dissented that nondelegation doctrine deprived of meaningful content.
209	Lewis	v.	Continental Bank Corp.	494	U.S.	472		1990	Case may cease to be justiciable if it becomes "moot" because since being filed, the parties no longer have a "personal stake in the outcome".
210	Rust	v.	Sullivan	500	U.S.	173		1991	If it is possible to construe a statute in a way that would make it constitutional, it must be so construed and applied.
211	Hafer	v.	Melo	502	U.S.	21		1991	State officers may be held personally liable for damages based upon actions taken in their official capacities.
212	U.S.	v.	Williams	504	U.S.	36		1992	Deliberations and decision of grand jury must be substantially independent of undue influence by prosecutor or judge, and if such independence is lacking, the indictment, and any conviction based on it, must be reversed.
213	Lujan	v.	Defenders of Wildlife	504	U.S.	555		1992	Plurality denied that Congress could by statute confer standing on citizens not suffering particularized "injury in fact" to a legal right to sue the Federal Government to compel it to carry out a duty imposed by Congress. Added two conditions for standing: that there must be a causal connection between the injury and the conduct complained of (causation), and that there must be a "substantial likelihood that the relief sought from the court if granted would remedy the harm (redressability).
214	Soldal	v.	Cook County	506	U.S.	56		1992	State or local officials who stand by or protect an unlawful eviction or seizure are liable for damages under 42 USC 1983.
215	Staples	v.	U.S.	511	U.S.	600		1994	Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant knew that his rifle had the characteristics that brought it within the statutory definition of a machinegun.
216	McIntyre	v.	Ohio Elections Commn	514	U.S.	334		1995	Advocacy publication may be anonymous, and is exempt from campaign disclosure statute.
217	U.S.	v.	Lopez	514	U.S.	549		1995	Prohibition against possessing firearm in proximity of a school is not authorized as connected to interstate commerce.
218	Bennis	v.	Michigan	517	U.S.	1163		1996	Property used in a crime may be forfeited even though partly or wholly owned by an innocent third party.
219	Caron	v.	U.S.	524	U.S.	308		1998	Even if a State permitted an offender to have the guns he possessed, federal law may use the State’s determination that the offender is more dangerous than law-abiding citizens to impose its own felony conviction.