The Court also refused to hear these other issues: The Court also refused to step into a family feud over the copyrights to famous works of the author John Steinbeck. His only surviving son and granddaughter have been thwarted in efforts to undo his widow’s assignment to Penguin Group of the rights to such works as The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. The case is Steinbeck, et al., v.
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(08-1059). His case is scheduled to go to trial in Alexandria, Va., federal court on June 2. Jefferson, a nine-term member of the House, was narrowly defeated for reelection last year. Jefferson, seeking to scuttle 14 of the 16 bribery charges against him because evidence of his legislative activities was heard by the grand jury that indicted him. The Court gave no reason for turning aside his claim that the grand jury consideration violated his rights under the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause. Chicago (08-974).Īmong cases that the Court refused to hear was an appeal by former Louisiana Democratic Rep. When the Solicitor General responds, the Court will decide whether to hear the case - Lewis, et al., v. The issue is which event starts the 300-day filing period for a complaint to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Solicitor General to provide the federal government’s views on the deadline for workers to complain to a federal agency about the use of an employment test that has a stronger negative impact on minority applicants. Eight black individuals in Chicago, representing a class of 26,000 black applicants who passed a 1995 entry-level test for firefighters, but were never selected, contend that a flawed job test becomes an act of discrimination not when the results are announced, but when actual hiring decisions are made based on test results. The Court has finished oral arguments for the current Term, and is now working toward adjournment, probably in late June.Īmong other orders Monday, the Court asked the U.S. The newly granted cases will be heard in the Term that starts Oct. The Wood case tests the failure of an inexperienced defense lawyer to present in a capital sentencing proceeding evidence of the defendant’s severe mental impairment. Allen (08-9156), with the grant limited to the first two questions. The Court also agreed to hear a death penalty case, Wood v.
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Kindler (08-992), on the proper treatment in a federal habeas corpus proceeding of state procedural rules that are discretionary rather than mandatory. Justice Samuel A. Black, in a celebrated case involving allegedly illegal executive compensation.
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The Court granted three other new cases, including a review of the fraud conviction of a former media mogul, Canadian Conrad M. The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to rule on the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act passed in 2002 to create a new government agency to regulate firms that audit the books of publicly traded companies. The key question in the case is whether the Act violated the separation-of-powers doctrine by the mode of selection and removal of members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.