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Query: U.S. Supreme Court cases
Aguilar v. Avis Rent-A-Car
Filed amicus brief contesting court-ordered injunction prohibiting 'offensive' epithets in the workplace as unlawful prior restraint of constitutionality protected speech.
Status: Loss
Camreta v. Greene
Amicus brief filed supporting the mother of a child who was seized at school without parental consent in a suit against a social worker and county sheriff.
Status: Vacated and remanded. The case was moot because the child was nearly 18 and had moved, and the appropriate disposition was to vacate the part of the court of appeals' opinion that addressed the Fourth Amendment issue.
Dale v. Boy Scouts
Filed amicus brief urging U.S. Supreme Court to set aside ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court that the Boy Scouts had no First Amendment right to preclude homosexuals from attaining leadership positions.
Status: Victory
Deborah Morse, Juneau School Board v. Joseph Frederick
Filed amicus brief in student free speech case involving an out-of-school display of a banner containing the words "Bongs for Jesus."
Status: Loss. Supreme Court ruled that schools may restrict speech supporting illegal drug use.
Florida v. HHS
Filed amicus briefs in case challenging individual mandate portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, more popularly known as "ObamaCare"
Status: pending
Gratz v. Bollinger
Challenged racial preferences in student admissions at the University of Michigan College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts.
Status: Victory
Grutter v. Bollinger
Challenged racial preferences in student admissions at the University of Michigan Law School.
Status: Loss
Parents Involved v. Seattle School District No. 1
CIR filed amicus brief in case challenging race-based school assignment plan.
Status: Victory. 5-4 majority struck down racial balancing plan
Reno v. Bossier Parish School District
Successfully rebuffed Department of Justice attempt to equate failure to maximize minority voting strength through racial gerrymandering with discrimination under the Voting Rights Act.
Status: Victory
Ricci v. DeStefano
CIR filed amicus briefs in case challenging New Haven Connecticut decision to cancel results of firefighter hiring test due to political pressure from individuals advocating greater minority hiring.
Status: Pending
Rosenberger v. Rectors of the University of Virginia
Challenged the denial of funding to Wide Awake, a religious student newspaper, which was denied student funds because it espoused a religious point of view.
Status: Victory
Rumsfeld v. FAIR
Filed a friend of the court brief with the United States Supreme Court urging it to uphold the Solomon Amendment, which requires colleges and universities to provide equal access to military recruiters as a condition of receiving federal funds.
Status: Victory
Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, et al.
Filed an amicus brief arguing that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers migratory bird rule set forth pursuant to the Clean Water Act is an unconstitutional exercise of Congress' authority to regulate interstate commerce.
Status: Court rejected rule on other grounds
U.S. v. Morrison
Defended student athlete in civil suit against ill-founded charges of rape. Successfully challenged portions of 1994 Violence Against Women Act as unconstitutional exercise of Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause and Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Status: Victory
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revised: September 14, 2013
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