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CRIMINAL JUSTICE Danforth v. Minnesota Whether a state can permit an inmate to raise constitutional claims in state post-conviction proceedings that would be barred in federal habeas proceedings. DECIDED Kimbrough v. United States Whether a federal trial judge may take into account the fact that the current Sentencing Guidelines for crack cocaine have proven unsound and been rejected by the Sentencing Commission itself when sentencing a crack offender. DECIDED Virginia v. Moore Whether the Fourth Amendment bars the government from relying on evidence seized following an arrest that state law prohibits. DECIDED DEATH PENALTY Baze v. Rees Whether Kentucky's lethal injection protocol violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment by using a combination of drugs that creates an unnecessary and avoidable risk of excruciating pain. DECIDED Kennedy v. Louisiana Whether a state may constitutionally impose the death penalty for the rape of a child. DISCRIMINATION Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture Whether public employees who are subject to arbitrary discrimination can raise an equal protection claim without also being required to show that the discrimination was based on membership in a protected class. Crawford v. Nashville Whether employees who cooperate with an internal investigation of alleged sexual harassment are protected against retaliation under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. CBOCS West Inc. v. Humphries Whether a federal law enacted shortly after the Civil War that grants all persons the same right to make and enforce contracts regardless of race protects those who complain about discrimination from retaliation. DUE PROCESS Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States Whether the detainees at Guantánamo can be deprived of any meaningful right to challenge the lawfulness of their detention without charges or trial. IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS Ali v. Achim Whether the Attorney General can create a category of "particularly serious crimes" beyond what Congress has designated as "aggravated felonies" and then deny asylum and witholding of removal to a refugee on the basis of such crimes and, if so, whether the decision to remove someone from the country based on a "particularly serious crime" without any regard for individual mitigating circumstances is subject to judicial review? CASE DISMISSED VOTING RIGHTS New York State Board of Elections v. Lopez Torres Whether New York State's method for electing judges is unconstitutional because it deprives insurgent candidates and their supporters of a meaningful opportunity to participate in the electoral process. DECIDED Riley v. Kennedy Whether voting changes that result from a state court decision need to be precleared under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Crawford v. Marion County Election Board Whether Indiana's voter ID law unconstitutionally burdens the right to vote absent any evidence of voter fraud. DECIDED |
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