The Oyez Project: 1996 Term Decisions

Agostini v. Felton (No. 96-552) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Is the Establishment Clause violated when public school teachers instruct in parochial schools?

Blessing v. Freestone (No. 95-1441) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Can parents sue states under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act to force overall compliance with federal efforts under Title IV-D to collect child-support payments from ex-spouses?

Chandler v. Miller (No. 96-126) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Did Georgia's drug testing statute violate the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against illegal search and seizures?

City of Boerne v. Flores (No. 95-2074) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Did Congress exceed its Fourteenth Amendment enforcement powers by enacting the RFRA which, in part, subjected local ordinances to federal regulation?

Clinton v. Jones (No. 95-1853) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 27 May 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Is a serving President, for separation of powers reasons, entitled to absolute immunity from civil litigation arising out of events which transpired prior to his taking office?

Commissioner v. Estate of Hubert (No. 95-1402) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 18 Mar 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Does the cost of administering an estate necessarily reduce the allowed estate-tax deduction for assets left to a spouse or charity?

Dunn v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (No. 95-1181) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have the authority to regulate "off exchange" trading in options to buy or sell foreign currency?

Immigration And Naturalization Service v. Yueh-Shaio Yang (No. 95-938) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:00:00 -0500

May the Imigration and Naturalization Service, when deciding whether to grant a discretionary waiver of deportation under the applicable provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act, take into account acts of fraud committed by an alien in connection to his entry into the United States?

Lopez v. Monterey County (No. 95-1201) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 06 Nov 1996 12:00:00 -0500

May a district court issue an order that authorizes a county covered by section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to conduct judicial elections under an election plan that has not received federal approval pursuant to section 5?

M.L.B V. S.L.J. (No. 95-853) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:00:00 -0500

May a State, consistent with the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, condition appeals from trial court decrees terminating parental rights on the affected parent's ability to pay record preparation fees?

Old Chief v. United States (No. 95-6556) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 07 Jan 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Does a District Court have the authority to reject a defendant's offer to conceded a prior conviction and admit the prosecution's presentation of it when the name or nature of the conviction raises the risk of a verdict tainted by improper considerations, and when the purpose of the evidence is solely to prove the element of prior conviction?

Reno v. ACLU (No. 96-511) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 26 Jun 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Did certain provisions of the 1996 Communications Decency Act violate the First and Fifth Amendments by being overly broad and vague in their definitions of the types of internet communications which they criminalized?

United States v. Wells (No. 95-1228) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 26 Feb 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Is the materiality of falsehood an element of the crime of knowingly making a false statement to a federally insured bank?

Vacco v. Quill (No. 95-1858) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 26 Jun 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Did New York's ban on physician-assisted suicide violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause by allowing competent terminally ill adults to withdraw their own lifesaving treatment, but denying the same right to patients who could not withdraw their own treatment and could only hope that a physician would do so for them?

Washington v. Glucksberg (No. 96-110) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 26 Jun 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Did Washington's ban on physician assisted-suicide violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by denying competent terminally ill adults the liberty to choose death over life?

Young v. Harper (No. 95-1598) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 18 Mar 1997 12:00:00 -0500

Is Oklahoma's Preparole Conditional Supervision Program sufficiently like parole that participants are entitled to procedural protections, such as the due process safeguards set forth in the Fourteenth Amendment?