Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Sequoia Books, Inc. v. Illinois

Sequoia Books, Inc. v. Ill., 501 U.S. 1205 (1991)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1991-06-10
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • claim of retaliatory transfers and failure to consider plaintiffs for promotion for having exercised their rights to freedom of speech
  • Ninth Circuit refused to consider unpublished decision that did not fall within the exceptions to the rule against citation
  • a preference for giving statutes a constitutional meaning is a reason to construe, not to rewrite or “improve”
  • qualified immunity defense available under § 1985(3)

Citator

UpLaw has not yet analyzed Sequoia Books, Inc. v. Illinois. The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.

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App. Ct. Ill., 2d Dist. Certiorari denied.