The Supreme Court Yearbook 1998-1999

by Jost, Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9781568024677
• ISBN10: 1568024673
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Summary

Written in non-legal language, The Supreme Court Yearbook contains easy to access summaries of all cases handed down in the term to give readers essential coverage of the Court's decisions, activities, and impact on American life.

This new edition of The Supreme Court Yearbook has been redesigned to provide comprehensive information on the 1998-1999 term in a highly readable style that brings students and interested citizens a quick understanding of the cases, events, trends, procedures, and people that shaped the Supreme Court's most recent term.

Readers will find capsule summaries of every opinion written during the recent term; plus an in-depth and engaging analysis that highlights the legal, social and political implications of the term's most significant cases; discussions of the justices' voting patterns; and previews of significant issues of the upcoming term.

Excerpts from the term's major decisions, a glossary of legal terms, brief biographies of the justices, and an explanation of how the Court works provide further information on the people and

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
A ``Consolidating'' Term	1	(19)
The Conservative Majority	8	(6)
The Liberal Minority	14	(6)
The 1998--1999 Term	20	(62)
State and Local Governments	22	(3)
Business, Labor, and Consumers	25	(3)
Individual Rights	28	(2)
Criminal Law	30	(3)
States	33	(13)
Court Again Curbs Private Suits to Enforce Federal Laws	33	(6)
Rulings Bar Patent Claims, False Advertising Suits	39	(7)
Disability Rights	46	(10)
Job Protections Limited for ``Correctable'' Impairments	46	(5)
``Unnecessary Segregation'' of Mentally III Curbed	51	(5)
Sexual Harassment	56	(5)
Schools Can Be Liable for Students' Misconduct	56	(5)
Criminal Law	61	(5)
Chicago's Anti-Gang Loitering Ordinance Struck Down	61	(5)
Welfare	66	(6)
States Barred from Cutting Benefits for Newcomers	66	(6)
Civil Rights	72	(4)
Mixed Ruling on Punitive Damages in Job Discrimination Suits	72	(4)
Census	76	(6)
Court Bars Sampling in Count for House Seats	76	(6)
Case Summaries (1998--1999 Decisions)	82	(70)
Business Law	87	(5)
Courts and Procedure	92	(6)
Criminal Law and Procedure	98	(15)
Election Law	113	(3)
Federal Government	116	(9)
First Amendment	125	(1)
Immigration Law	126	(2)
Individual Rights	128	(10)
Labor Law	138	(6)
Property Law	144	(1)
States	145	(5)
Torts	150	(2)
Preview of the 1999--2000 Term	152	(19)
Tobacco Regulation	156	(5)
Criminal Law and Procedure	161	(1)
Election Law	162	(3)
Environmental Law	165	(1)
Federal Government	165	(1)
First Amendment	166	(2)
States	168	(3)
Appendix	171	(193)
Opinion Excerpts (Major Decisions, 1998--1999)	171	(139)
Department of Commerce v. U.S. House of Representatives	171	(14)
Saenz v. Roe	185	(12)
Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education	197	(17)
City of Chicago v. Morales	214	(16)
Olmstead v. L.C.	230	(12)
Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc.	242	(12)
Kolstad v. American Dental Association	254	(9)
Alden v. Maine	263	(20)
College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board	283	(13)
Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank	296	(14)
How the Court Works	310	(11)
Brief Biographies	321	(19)
Glossary of Legal Terms	340	(5)
United States Constitution	345	(19)
Index	364