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Supreme Court takes student religious group, sentencing cases

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in two cases. In Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, the Court will consider whether a state law school may deny recognition to a religious student organization where the group requires its officers and voting members to agree with its core religious beliefs. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of the law school In Dillon v. United States, the Court will consider whether the federal sentencing guidelines are binding when a federal judge imposes a new sentence. Under the Supreme Court's 2005 ruling in United States v. Booker, the guidelines are advisory only, but the Court has never ruled on Booker's application to a sentence modification proceeding. The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that Booker should not apply in sentence modification proceedings, upholding Percy Dillon's modified sentence.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).