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Scheffer, 523 U.S. 303 (1998), was the first case in which the Supreme Court issued a ruling with regard to the highly controversial matter of polygraph, or "lie-detector," testing. At issue was whether the per se exclusion of polygraph evidence offered by the accused in a military court violates the Sixth Amendment right to present a defense.
Virginia v. Moore , 553 U.S. 164 (2008), is a Supreme Court of the United States case that addresses use of evidence obtained by police in a search incident to an arrest if that arrest is later found to be unlawful.
The case was argued on March 23, 2021. [4] The case was decided unanimously on June 1, 2021, allowing tribal police to detain and investigate those suspected of criminal activity on tribal lands regardless of racial status. [5] [4] The court found that in such cases non-natives may be detained when on a public right of way inside a reservation.
A polygraph test may take center stage at an upcoming sentencing hearing for Alex Murdaugh for his federal financial crimes on Monday, April 1, in Charleston. Murdaugh’s lawyers deny he lied on ...
Richmond Newspapers Inc. v. Virginia, 448 U.S. 555 (1980), is a United States Supreme Court case involving issues of privacy in correspondence with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the freedom of the press, the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996), was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the long-standing male-only admission policy of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in a 7–1 decision.
Bigelow v. Virginia, 421 U.S. 809 (1975), [1] was a United States Supreme Court decision that established First Amendment protection for commercial speech. [2] The ruling is an important precedent on challenges to government regulation of advertising, determining that such publications qualify as speech under the First Amendment.
Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), is a United States Supreme Court case determining the standard for admitting expert testimony in federal courts. In Daubert , the Court held that the enactment of the Federal Rules of Evidence implicitly overturned the Frye standard ; the standard that the Court articulated is referred to ...