In the summer of 2000, the high court released a number of momentous decisions, ruling on "partial birth abortions," the Boy Scouts's ban on gays, the Miranda warning, California's "Blanket" primary, and hate crime sentencing standards. In California Democratic Party v. Jones, another 7-2 decision, the court invalidated the "blanket" primary system in California, Washington, and Alaska as unconstitutional infringements on political parties's rights to select their own candidates. As always, the full text of the syllabi and both opinions in all of these cases can be read in HTML or .pdf format at the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School Supreme Court Collection site.
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