February 2000
Tuesday, February 22, 2000
United States v. Webster L. Hubbell
(No. 99-166)
Subject:
Fifth Amendment, immunity, self-incrimination
Question:
- Whether the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination protects information previously recorded in voluntarily created documents that a defendant delivers to teh goverment pursuant to an immunized act of production.
- Whether a defendant's act of producing ordinary business records constitutes a compelled testimonial communication solely because the government cannot identify the documents with reasonable particularily before they are produced.
Decisions:
- District of Columbia Circuit: No. 98-3080, Decided: 01/26/99.
- District of Columbia Circuit: No. 98-3080, Dated: 01/27/99. Order amending decision.
- District of Columbia Circuit: No. 98-3080, Amended: 02/02/99.
- United States Supreme Court, Decided: June 5, 2000
Briefs:
Jeffrey Allan Fischer, Petitioner v. United States
(No. 99-116)
Subject:
Fraud, bribery, federal funds, medicare, 18 USC § 666
Question:
Whether Medicare payments to a hospital for services provided to Medicare patients qualify as "benefits" to meet the jurisdictional requirements of Title 18 U.S.C. § 666 so as to federalize crimes of theft, embezzlement, and bribery involving the hospital.
Decisions:
Briefs:
Cornell Johnson v. United States
(No. 99-5153)
Subject:
Ex Post Facto, supervised release, additional term
Question:
Whether reimposition of supervised release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(h), following revocation of Petitioner's original supervised release sentence, violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution when Petitioner's conviction for the underlying offense occurred before section 3583(h) was enacted.
Decisions:
Briefs:
Wednesday, February 23, 2000
Lori Pegram, et al. v. Cynthia Herdrich
(No. 98-1949)
Subject:
ERISA, HMOs, medical malpractice
Question:
Whether a health maintenance organization ("HMO") and its physicians breach a fiduciary duty under section 404(a)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1104(a)(1), by implementing a managed-care program in which the HMO and its physicians receive financial incentives to provide medical care to the HMO's enrollees in a cost-effective manner.
Decisions:
Briefs:
Edward Christensen, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al.
(No. 98-1167)
Subject:
Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 207(o), public agency, flex time, overtime
Question:
Whether a public agency governed by the compensatory time provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C. 207(o), may, absent a preexisting agreement, require its employees ot use accrued compensatory time.
Decisions:
Briefs:
Monday, February 28, 2000
Michael Wayne Williams v. John Taylor
(No. 99-6615)
Subject:
Death penalty, Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, federal court access, state convictions
Decisions:
Briefs:
Anthony Braden Bryan v. Michael W. Moore
(No. 99-6723)
Subject:
Eighth Amendment, death penalty, cruel and unusual punishment, electric chair
Decisions:
Briefs:
Ronald D. Edwards v. Robert W. Carpenter
(No. 98-2060)
Subject:
Sixth Amendment, ineffective assistance of counsel, federal appeals
Decisions:
Briefs:
Tuesday, February 29, 2000
Steven Dewayne Bond v. United States
(No. 98-9349)
Subject:
Fourth Amendment, search and seizure, luggage, overhead compartment
Decisions:
Briefs:
Florida v. J. L.
(No. 98-1993)
Subject:
Fourth Amendment, search and seizure, anonymous tip, concealed weapon
Decisions:
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