http://www.oyez.org/cases/1995/podcast-decisions U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Announcements, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en The Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_95_124/opinion Do the Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act's empowerments and restrictions violate the petitioner's First Amendment right to freedom of speech? Fri, 28 Jun 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57877 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_95_191/opinion Did O'Hare Truck Service's removal from Northlake's employment list, as a result of its support for an opposition mayoral candidate, violate O'Hare Truck Services freedom of speech? Fri, 28 Jun 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57923 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1654/opinion Did the Board's termination of Umbehr's contract, presumably as a result of his criticisms, constitute a violation of his First Amendment freedom of speech? Fri, 28 Jun 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57957 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_95_8836/opinion Do the Act's Title I provisions, preventing the Supreme Court from reviewing an appellate review panel's denial of leave to file a second habeas petition, unconstitutionally "suspend" the habeas writ and restrict the Court's authority to entertain original habeas petitions? Fri, 28 Jun 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57947 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1941/opinion Does Virginia's creation of a women's-only academy, as a comparable program to a male-only academy, satisfy the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause? Wed, 26 Jun 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57917 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_95_345/opinion Do civil property forfeitures ("in rem" forfeiture) constitute a "punishment" in terms of the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause which forbids successive prosecutions and punishment for the same crime? Mon, 24 Jun 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57939 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_95_5841/opinion Did the officers conduct an unreasonable search and seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment? Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57869 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1039/opinion Does Amendment 2 of Colorado's State Constitution, forbidding the extension of official protections to those who suffer discrimination due to their sexual orientation, violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause? Mon, 20 May 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57943 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_896/opinion Assuming that Gore's punitive damage award was grossly excessive, does the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause protect BMW from paying the award? Mon, 20 May 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57888 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1140/opinion Is Rhode Island's statute an infringement on the First Amendment right to commercial freedom of speech? If it is, can Rhode Island still pass such legislation under the Twenty-first Amendment which limits the dormant Commerce Clause by empowering the states to regulate the sale of alcohol? Mon, 13 May 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57925 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_95_210/opinion Did the National Labor Relations Board correctly classify chicken catchers as employees, and not as exempt agricultural workers, for purposes of the National Labor Relations Act? Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57880 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_95_26/opinion Is the interpretation of a patent's claim, the portion of the patent document that defines the scope of the patentee's rights, a matter of fact to be decided by jurors? Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57937 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_95_5207/opinion May state law presume that defendants are competent to stand trial unless they prove their incompetence by clear and convincing evidence without violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57915 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1614/opinion Did the decision of the Secretary of Commerce not to use the PES in the 1990 census violate the constitutional right of certain minorities to be counted? Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57871 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1471/opinion Did the Varity Corporation and Massey-Ferguson, Inc. act their capacity as an Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974fiduciary when they significantly and deliberately misled the beneficiaries? By doing so, did Varity and Massey-Ferguson violate the fiduciary obligations that ERISA imposes upon plan administrators? Does ERISA authorize a lawsuit in such cases? Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57951 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_95_83/opinion May plaintiffs use the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 to sue and recover money they spent to clean up hazardous waste on their property? Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57927 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_8729/opinion Does the abatement order entered against Bennis's car constitute a taking of private property for public use in violation of the property clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments? Mon, 04 Mar 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57913 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1809/opinion May a federal court refuse to grant full faith and credit to a state-court judgment approving a class-action settlement simply because the settlement releases claims within the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal courts? Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57921 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_95_6/opinion Is a railroad liable, under the federal Safety Appliance Act, for injuries incurred by a railroad employee while trying to straighten a misaligned drawbar? Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57935 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1453/opinion Do federal courts possess ancillary jurisdiction over new actions in which a federal judgment creditor seeks to impose liability for a money judgment on a person not otherwise liable for the judgment? Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57909 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1239/opinion Does North Carolina's "intangibles tax" on a fraction of the value of corporate stock owned by North Carolina residents inversely proportional to the corporation's exposure to the State's income tax violate the Federal Commerce Clause? Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57911 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1244/opinion Does a defendant's immediate appeal of an unfavorable qualified-immunity ruling on his motion to dismiss deprive the court of appeals of jurisdiction over a second appeal, also based on qualified immunity, immediately following denial of summary judgment? Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57919 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1361/opinion May a plaintiff, in a suit brought under Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention governing international air transportation, recover damages for loss of society resulting from the death of a relative in a plane crash on the high seas? Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57941 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_2003/opinion Is a computer program's menu command hierarchy a "method of operation" under 17 U.S.C.102(b), and therefore uncopyrightable? Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57896 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1387/opinion Do state remedies apply in maritime wrongful-death cases in which no federal statute specifies the appropriate relief and the decedent was not a seaman, longshore worker, or person otherwise engaged in a maritime trade? Tue, 09 Jan 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57864 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_1592/opinion None Mon, 08 Jan 1996 13:00:00 +0000 57954 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1995/1995_94_7448/opinion Is evidence of the proximity and accessibility of a firearm to drugs or drug proceeds alone sufficient to support a conviction for "use" of a firearm during and in relation to a predicate narcotics offense under 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(1)? Wed, 06 Dec 1995 13:00:00 +0000 57906 at http://www.oyez.org