Kleppe v. New Mexico

How later courts describe this case

• seventeen-year-old victim's genitals were burned and cut, she was then raped and strangled, and finally defendant grabbed her head and twisted it in order to break her neck
• federal regulations pursuant to the Property Clause “necessarily override[ ] conflicting state laws under the Supremacy Clause”
• Supreme Court recognized that the Orthodox church was a “hierarchical church,” with a governing body, set rules of procedure, and an internal appeals procedure
• in which the Supreme Court upheld zoning ordinances classifying and regulating “adult” motion picture theaters differently from other theaters
• as earlier pointed out, our death penalty statute is patterned after Georgia's and has the same provisions as to independent review of the death penalty, including determination of proportionality of the death sentence
• suggestion by plurality that content regulations of non-obscene pornographic material requires less justification than content regulations of other protected forms of speech
• no liberty interest in remaining in a particular institution within state system
• prison transfers do not infringe a protected liberty interest