Posted on 01/23/2006 8:24:02 AM PST by Tarkin
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday, without dissent, that it has not barred all challenges to actual operation in practice of federal campaign finance restrictions. It ordered a lower court to reconsider an "as-applied" challenge by an anti-abortion group, Wisconsin Right to Life Inc. The unsigned opinion, only two and a half pages in length, was announced by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. (...)
In other decisions:
No. 04-885, Central Virginia Community College v. Katz, affirmed 5-4, in an opinion written by Justice Stevens, declining to apply the Seminole Tribe sovereign immunity doctrine to claims brought under the Bankruptcy Clause. Justice Thomas dissented, joined by the Chief Justice and by Justices Scalia and Kennedy. Interestingly, if this decision had not been ready to be issued today, the case might well have been held over for reargument. It's the first decision of the Term in which Justice O'Connor cast the deciding vote and in which Justice Alito would likely have come out the other way. (...)
No. 04-597, Unitherm Food Systems v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc., reversed 7-2, in an opinion by Justice Thomas. Justice Stevens dissented, joined by Justice Kennedy
BTW, these were probably the last cases in which Sandy participated as the Court will be in recess for the next four weeks.
Congressman Billybob
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