A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, the Supreme Court heard arguments on November 1, 2005 and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U. S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

" Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, ( citations omitted ).

Recently, the Commerce Clause was interpreted to include marijuana laws in the Gonzales v. Raich decision.

* 2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.

Gilmore initially lost the case, known as Gilmore v. Gonzales, and an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court was denied.

* Nitke v. Gonzales ( a case involving Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom regarding internet obscenity )

According to the court's ruling in Gonzales v. UDV,, RFRA remains applicable to federal laws and so those laws must still have a " compelling interest ".

Most recently, the Commerce Clause was cited in the 2005 decision Gonzales v. Raich.

Some of its major rulings have concerned federal preemption ( Wyeth v. Levine ), civil procedure ( Twombly-Iqbal ), abortion ( Gonzales v. Carhart ), and the Bill of Rights, prominently Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ( First Amendment ), Heller-McDonald ( Second Amendment ), and Baze v. Rees ( Eighth Amendment ).

A separate challenge to the provisions governing obscenity, known as Nitke v. Gonzales, was rejected by a federal court in New York in 2005.

* Kahle v. Gonzales

He argued the unconstitutionality of secret law regarding travel security policies in Gilmore v. Gonzales.

* Gilmore v. Gonzales information

Along with other foreign-made works, the film's U. S. copyright was restored in 1998, but the constitutionality of this copyright extension was challenged in Golan v. Gonzales and as Golan v. Holder it was ruled that " In the United States, that body of law includes the bedrock principle that works in the public domain remain in the public domain.

* Castle Rock v. Gonzales ( 2005 ), a U. S. Supreme Court case

The Supreme Court wavered, however, in Gonzales v. Raich ( 2005 ), holding that the federal government could outlaw the use of marijuana for medical purposes under the Commerce Clause even if the marijuana was never bought or sold, and never crossed state lines.

( See Gonzales v. Oregon )

* Cato senior fellow Randy Barnett argued the Gonzales v. Raich case before the Supreme Court in 2004.

This limited model has withstood constitutional scrutiny: Gonzales v Oregon 368 F. 3d 1118 ( 2004 ), affirmed by 546 U. S. 243 ( 2006 )

The United States Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers ' Coop and Gonzales v. Raich that the federal government has the authority to regulate and criminalize cultivation and distribution of cannabis under the interstate commerce clause, as even purely intrastate sales will affect the market price in other states by altering nationwide supply and demand patterns.

We have concluded that petitioner's claims are controlled by the rationale of Gonzales v. United States, 348 U.S. 407 ( 1955 ), and United States v. Nugent, 346 U.S. 1 ( 1953 ), and therefore affirm the judgment.

We found in Gonzales v. United States, supra, that this was the controlling reason why copies of the recommendation should be furnished a registrant.

As was said in Gonzales, `` it is the Appeal Board which renders the selective service determination considered ' final ' in the courts, not to be overturned unless there is no basis in fact.

Gonzales v. United States, supra.

Word reached the company that the man behind these depredations was Manuel Gonzales, a man with many followers, including a number who were kept in line through fear of him.

Still there was no Gonzales and the family would say nothing.

While prowling around these buildings, two of the posse recognized the voice of Gonzales speaking to the people inside.

When it became obvious that he could stay inside no longer, taking a thousand to one chance Gonzales rushed outside, square against the muzzle of a Winchester.

A Mexican justice of the peace had issue a writ against Chavez for taking part in the `` murder '' of Manuel Gonzales so he and his father were anxious to be taken out of danger.

* Gonzales: Gonzales is the smuggler who makes the arrangements for Rambert's escape.

He introduces Rambert to Gonzales.

However, Corky Gonzales and Reies Tijerina stirred up old tensions about New Mexican land claims with roots going back to before the Mexican-American War.

Planned Parenthood sued Attorney General Gonzales for an injunction against the enforcement of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003.

Carhart later filed suit against U. S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales seeking to strike down the 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, a federal law that is similar to the state law struck down in Stenberg, but while the Court did not officially reverse Stenberg, it upheld the federal ban as not imposing an undue burden on women, the test established in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

Later, Gonzales fought in the bantamweight ranks, and in June 2003 lost a fight against Ada Vélez for the WIBA bantamweight title on a seventh-round disqualification.

A. s. h played some role in the death of Suzy Gonzales, who killed herself in 2003 after sharing her thoughts on a. s. h.

" The law was enacted in 2003, and in 2007 its constitutionality was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court, in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart.

In 2006, the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart found that the 2003 act " departs in material ways " from the Nebraska law and that it pertains only to a specific abortion procedure, intact dilation and extraction.

In 2003, President Bush signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act into law ; that law was later upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in Gonzales v. Carhart.

In 2003, Gonzales also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Travis County, Texas Republican Party.

A 2003 article in The Atlantic Monthly asserts that Gonzales gave insufficient counsel, and failed to second-guess convictions and failed appeals.

In 2003, Gonzales and his top aide, Joe Guerra, negotiated an agreement for a nine-percent, $ 11 million increase in garbage rates for garbage hauler Norcal Waste Systems, Inc., then advocated the rate increase before the San Jose City Council, which approved the plan.

Office of Legal Counsel representative Jack L. Goldsmith informed Alberto R. Gonzales in October 2003 that Rashul was legally protected under the 4th Geneva Convention, and must legally be returned to Iraq.

* Gonzales, Joseph, Talking Points-Obedience in Opus Dei, 2003, former numerary