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March 2003

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Monday, March 3

Charles T. Sell v. United States
No. 02-5664

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Madigan, Att'y Gen. of IL v. Telemarketing Associates
No. 01-1806

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Tuesday, March 4

National Park Hospitality Assn. v. Department of the Interior, et al.
No. 02-196

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Wednesday, March 5

United States, et al. v. American Library Assn., Inc., et al.
No. 02-361

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Susan Jinks v. Richland County SC
No. 02-258

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Monday, March 24

Khanh Phuong Nguyen v. United States, et al.
No. 01-10873

Tuyet Mai Thi Phan v. United States
No. 02-5034

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Kevin Wiggins v. Warden Smith, et al.
No. 02-311

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Tuesday, March 25

Federal Election Commission v. Christine Beaumont, et al.
No. 02-403

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Wednesday, March 26

William Overton, Dir., Michigan Dept. of Corrections, et al. v. Michelle Bazzetta, et al.
No. 02-94

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  1. Whether prisoners have a right to non-contact visitation protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

  2. Whether the restrictions on non-contact prison visitation imposed by the Michigan Department of Corrections are reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.

  3. Whether the restrictions on non-contact prison visitation imposed by the Michigan Department of Corrections constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
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John G. Lawrence, et al. v. Texas
No. 02-102

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  1. Whether Petitioners' criminal convictions under the Texas "Homosexual Conduct" law - which criminalizes sexual intimacy by same-sex couples, but not identical behavior by different-sex couples - violate the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection of the laws?

  2. Whether Petitioners' criminal convictions for adult consensual sexual intimacy in the home violate their vital interests in liberty and privacy protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?

  3. Whether Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), should be overruled?
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Monday, March 31

Inyo County, et al. v. Paiute-Shoshone Indians, et al.
No. 02-281

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  1. Whether the doctrine of tribal sovereign immunity enables Indian tribes, their gambling casinos and other commercial businesses to prohibit the searching of their property by law enforcement officers for criminal evidence pertaining to the commission of off-reservation State crimes, when the search is pursuant to a search warrant issued upon probable cause.

  2. Whether such a search by State law enforcement officers constitutes a violation of the tribe's civil rights that is actionable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

  3. Whether, if such a search is actionable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the State law enforcement officers who conducted the search pursuant to the warrant are nonetheless entitled to the defense of qualified immunity.
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Marion R. Stogner v. California
No. 01-1757

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  1. Did the California Legislature's abolition of the statute of limitations requirement, which historically comprised an element of the crimes charged, so as to charge Petitioner retroactively, violate the Ex Post Facto Clause?

  2. Did the California Legislature's abolition of the statute of limitations arbitrarily retract a liberty interest the state had conferred on Petitioner?
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