Channing Merch. v. United States147 DownloadsYear: 2013 (Vol. 37). Topic: Constitutional Law; Fourth Amendment. Question: Whether a law enforcement agent may incorporate specialized experience and knowledge in determining if a container has illegal contraband, therefore allowing a lawful warrantless search under the plain view doctrine. Format: PDF.
Fernando v. Murano Unified Sch. Dist.69 DownloadsYear: 2010 (Vol. 34). Topic: Constitutional Law; First Amendment. Question: Whether student speech made outside the school setting may nevertheless be governed by Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503 (1969), and its progeny, and if so, whether application of the standards in Tinker and its progeny allow Read more about Fernando v. Murano Unified Sch. Dist.[…]
Potter v. United States43 DownloadsYear: 2010 (Vol. 34). Topic: Constitutional Law; Criminal Law; Fifth Amendment; Sixth Amendment; Juvenile Law. Question: Whether a criminal defendant’s right to a jury trial under the Sixth and Fifth Amendments is violated when a prior juvenile adjudication – not itself decided by a jury – is used by a judge to impose a Read more about Potter v. United States[…]
Bullock v. Farnum46 DownloadsYear: 2010 (Vol. 34). Topic: Constitutional Law; Due Process; Mental Disability Law. Question: Whether a State owes affirmative constitutional duties of care and protection, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, to individuals voluntarily admitted to State custody. Format: PDF.
Keys v. City of Ludlow42 DownloadsYear: 2009 (Vol. 33). Topic: Constitutional Law; Substantive Due Process. Question: Whether a parent’s liberty interest in the relationship with his or her adult child is protected by the freedom of intimate association under the Fourteenth Amendment. Format: PDF.
United States v. Gray70 DownloadsYear: 2009 (Vol. 33). Topic: Constitutional Law; Sixth Amendment. Question: Which party bears the burden of proving prejudice when a confidential defense strategy is compromised, and what remedies are available to the defendant should prejudice be found. Format: PDF.
Prefect v. Betelgeuse Cnty. Police Dep’t44 DownloadsYear: 2009 (Vol. 33). Topic: Constitutional Law; Fourth Amendment. Question: Whether the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to arrestees that are no longer in the custody of the arresting officer and have not yet been arraigned or formally charged. Format: PDF.
Jones v. Church of Science25 DownloadsYear: 2008 (Vol. 32). Topic: Constitutional Law; First Amendment. Question: Whether the children’s choir director of a church sustain sexual harassment claims against her employer without running afoul of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment, or such claims are barred under the judicially-created “ministerial exception” to Title VII and state employment law. Format: Word. Read more about Jones v. Church of Science[…]
Incandenza v. Enfield Sch. Dist.35 DownloadsYear: 2009 (Vol. 33). Topic: Constitutional Law; First Amendment. Question: Whether there is a hybrid rights exception to the general rule that the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause requires only rational basis review for neutral and generally applicable laws that incidentally burden a particular religion. Format: PDF.
Webber v. Smith63 DownloadsYear: 2008 (Vol. 32). Topic: Constitutional Law; First Amendment. Question: What standard should be used to determine whether the First Amendment protects speech communicated by a public school teacher in the classroom. Format: Word.
McCoy v. Mutant Univ.17 DownloadsYear: 2007 (Vol. 31). Topic: Constitutional Law. Question: Whether an informal practice can create a property interest in a tenured university position, entitled to due process protections, despite the existence of a formal tenure procedure within the same institution. Format: Word.
Pan v. Hook84 DownloadsYear: 2007 (Vol. 31). Topic: Constitutional Law. Question:(1) Whether Appellant’s Fourteenth Amendment claim against Everwood’s juvenile curfew ordinance ought to be analyzed under strict scrutiny. (2) Whether Everwood’s juvenile curfew ordinance is constitutional on its face. Format: Word.
United States v. Bluth58 DownloadsYear: 2007 (Vol. 31). Topic: Constitutional Law; Fourth Amendment. Question: Whether the need to obtain clothing for a partially‑clothed arrestee constitutes an exigent circumstance, thus dispensing with the requirement that a law enforcement officer obtain a warrant or the arrestee’s consent before entering his or her home. Format: Word.
Jimpert v. Michael62 DownloadsYear: 2007 (Vol. 31). Topic: Constitutional Law; First Amendment. Question: (1) Whether an allegation of conspiracy to deprive others of equal protection of the laws solely on the basis of political affiliation states a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3). (2) Whether content-discriminatory supermajority requirements for ballot initiative elections require intermediate scrutiny under the First Read more about Jimpert v. Michael[…]