The Solomon Amendment, 10 U.S.C. 983(b)(1), withholds specified federal funds from institutions of higher education that deny military recruiters the same access to campuses and students that they provide to other employers. The question presented is whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the Solomon Amendment's equal access condition on federal funding likely violates the First Amendment to the Constitution and in directing a preliminary injunction to be issued against its enforcement.Did the Court of Appeals err in ruling that the Solomon Amendment's equal access condition on federal funding violates the First Amendment based on the fact that the Solomon Amendment burdens the right of educational institutions to engage in expressive association and forces law schools to propagate a message of discrimination against homosexuals with which they disagree?
The O Centro case reached the Supreme Court in an appeal from a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of drug law against the Uniao Do Vegetal sect for its herbal tea sacrament. ... If that concern spreads among the Court's members, it is conceivable that the case might be returned to lower courts, for a full trial as the sect sought a permanent injunction to allow its use of [hallucinogenic] hoasca tea. http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2005/11/herbal_tea_case.html
Should this Court grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among federal and state courts on whether an occupant may give law enforcement valid consent to search the common areas of the premises shared with another, even though the other occupant is present and objects to the search?http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/docket/2005/november.html
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Thanks for the info. I have a question. How long after the oral arguments are the decisions made? I know they are anounced in the spring, but how long after oral arguments are the votes cast?? It would be nice if the new justice (Alito) would be given the transcript of the oral argument, then votes. Is there a rule, that the justice who hears the oral argument must be the one who casts their vote (and not the incommng judge)?