Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Sequoia Books, Inc. v. Illinois

501 U.S. 1205

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  • Ninth Circuit refused to consider unpublished decision that did not fall within the exceptions to the rule against citation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.

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