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| In re Gallamore, 02-8451 (02A566),
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 14, 2003, Decided
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| Pierce County v. Guillen, No. 01-1229,
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 14, 2003, Decided
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Overview: A statute granting privilege to information gathered for a federal highway safety program, aimed at improving commerce channel safety and increasing protection for interstate commerce instrumentalities, was within Congress' Commerce Clause power.
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| Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania, No. 01-7574,
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 14, 2003, Decided
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Overview: Where a statutory life sentence for murder was imposed after the jury was unable to agree on a death sentence, double jeopardy protection did not apply to bar the state from seeking the death penalty upon retrial after the conviction was reversed.
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| Barnhart v. Peabody Coal Co., Nos. 01-705 and 01-715,
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 15, 2003, Decided * * Together with Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security v. Bellaire Corp. et al. (see this Court's Rule 12.4), and No. 01-715, Holland et al. v. Bellaire Corp. et al., also on certiorari to the same court.
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Overview: Commissioner of the Social Security Administration's initial assignment of coal industry retirees to certain coal companies after the mandatory deadline set forth in the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act was valid despite its untimeliness.
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| Eldred v. Ashcroft, No. 01-618,
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 15, 2003, Decided
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Overview: Under the CTEA, Congress enlarged the duration of copyrights by 20 years in order to, inter alia, harmonize the baseline United States copyright term with the term adopted by the European Union. Petitioners argued that the CTEA violated the "limited times" prescription of the Copyright Clause. As to the, petitioners contended that the CTEA was a content-neutral regulation of speech that failed inspection under the heightened judicial scrutiny appropriate for such regulations. The Court determined that the CTEA was constitutional. The CTEA's extension of existing copyrights did not exceed Congress' power under the Copyright Clause. The Court rejected petitioners' arguments that (1) the extension was a congressional attempt to evade or override the "limited times" constraint, (2) Congress could not extend an existing copyright absent new consideration from the author, and (3) the extensions should have been subject to heightened judicial review. The Court also rejected petitioners' argument that the CTEA violated the.
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| Revilla v. Oklahoma, 02-8457 (02A568),
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, January 16, 2003, Decided
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