Supreme Court 2011 Term
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The Supreme Court 2011 Term began in October 2011 and is scheduled to complete in June 2012.
Key cases include:
- whether the Anti-Injunction Act prevents the courts from reviewing the constitutionality of ObamaCare yet
- whether the individual mandate requiring nearly every adult to purchase health insurance is constitutional
- whether that provision may be severed from the remainder
- whether the Medicaid expansion is constitutional
- a challenge to the Arizona illegal alien law
- the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act
- whether a prison sentence of life without parole for a crime committed by a 14-year-old is constitutional
- whether criminal defendants have a constitutional right to cross-examine the person who tested the DNA upon which the prosecution relies
- constitutionality of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
- constitutionality of a fine against Fox for bad words on television (FCC v. Fox)
- whether non-union public employees can be required to contribute to political funds for the union (Knox v. SEIU)
- constitutionality of criminal fines despite a lack of a finding by a jury of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt (Southern Union Company v. United States)
- whether the Fair Sentencing Act applies to everyone sentenced after the passage of the federal statute (Dorsey v. United States)