VELARDE

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Vacco v. Quill, 521 U.S. 793 (U.S. 1997)
  …from prescribing medications to be self-administered by a mentally competent, terminally-ill person in the final stages of his terminal illness, they are not rationally related to any legitimate state interest.” Id,., at 731. We granted certiorari, 518 U. S. 1055 (1996), and now reverse. The Equal Protection Clause commands that no State shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” This provision creates no substantive rights. San Antonio Independent School Dist. v. R…
• Harbor TUG & Barge Co. v. Papai et ux., 520 U.S. 548 (U.S. 1997)
  …dging & Pumping Co., 26 F. 3d 1247 (CA3 1994)); see also Johnson v. Continental Grain Co., 58 F. 3d 1232 (CA8 1995); but see Fisher v. Nichols, 81 F. 3d 319, 323 (CA2 1996) (rejecting common ownership or control requirement). We granted certiorari, 518 U. S. 1055 (1996), and now reverse. II The LHWCA, a maritime workers’ compensation scheme, excludes from its coverage “a master or member of a crew of any vessel,” 33 U. S. C. § 902(3)(G). These masters and crewmembers are the seamen entitled to sue for dama…
• Young v. Fordice, 520 U.S. 273 (U.S. 1997)
  …te, as well as for federal, elections, as the distinction between state and federal elections was due to the NVRA’s own provisions, not to the State’s changes in voting practices. The private plaintiffs appealed, and we noted probable jurisdiction. 518 U. S. 1055 (1996). We now reverse. II Section 5 of the VRA requires Mississippi to preclear any . . . practice] or procedure with respect to voting different from that in force or effect on November 1, 1964.” 42 U. S. C. § 1973c. The statute’s date of Novem…