U. S. Supreme Court, January, 2001, Federal Case law

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Federal Courts - U. S. Supreme Court - January, 2001

Fiore v. White, No. 98-942, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 9, 2001, Decided
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Overview: Defendant's due process rights were violated when he was convicted of operating a hazardous waste facility without a permit under state law since State failed to prove that he did not have a permit.

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Gitlitz v. Comm'r, No. 99-1295, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 9, 2001, Decided
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Overview: Excluded discharged debt of a S Corporation was an item of income, which passed through to shareholders and increased their basis in stock. Where shareholders' basis increase was equal to their losses, they had no net operating losses to reduce.

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Glover v. United States, No. 99-8576, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 9, 2001, Decided
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Overview: Denial of petitioner's motion to correct his sentence was reversed and remanded since it was error to engraft an additional requirement of a significant increase in the term of imprisonment to the prejudice branch of the Strickland test.

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Solid Waste Agency v. United States Army Corps of Eng'Rs, No. 99-1178, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 9, 2001, Decided
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Overview: Even though proposed waste disposal site was migratory bird habitat, federal agency jurisdiction did not extend to nonnavigable, isolated, intrastate gravel pit where clean water statute limited jurisdiction to navigable waters.

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Lopez v. Davis, No. 99-7504, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 10, 2001, Decided
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Overview: Court upheld the validity of a prison regulation that categorically denied early release to prisoners whose current offense was a felony attended by the carrying, possession, or use of a firearm.

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Murphy v. Beck, No. 00-46 (R46-008), SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 12, 2001, Decided
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Michaels v. McGrath, 00-361, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 16, 2001, Decided
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City News & Novelty v. City of Waukesha, No. 99-1680, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 17, 2001, Decided
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Overview: Certiorari was dismissed when the meaning of the requirement of "prompt judicial review" for unsuccessful applicants for an adult-business license was not genuinely presented in petitioner's case.

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Seling v. Young, No. 99-1185, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 17, 2001, Decided
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Overview: Individual confined under Washington Community Protection Act of 1990 could not raise "as-applied" double jeopardy and ex post facto challenge as case had reached court under assumption that Act was civil, not on direct attack to Act's civil nature.

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