Brown v. Hansen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying the political question doctrine to queshons reserved for the Legislature of the Virgin Islands
• applying Baker to determine whether an issue is a polihcal queshon reserved for the Virgin Islands Legislature
• considering the court’s jurisdiction to review the Legislature’s actions under § 6(g
• “[The political question doctrine] precludes courts from granting relief that would violate the separation of powers mandated by the United States Constitution.”
• “Under [the political question] doctrine, courts generally refuse to scrutinize a legislature’s choice of or compliance with internal rules and procedures.”
• “Under [the political question] doctrine, courts generally refuse to scrutinize a legislature's choice of or compliance with internal rules and procedures.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Summer Sagoonick v. State of Alaska
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2022-01-28· cited 16×
• Rodriquez v. 32nd Legislature of the Virgin Islands
  Third Circuit· 2017-06-09· cited 10×
• In Re: The 35th Legislature of V.I.
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2024-03-22· cited 1×
• Barker v. Conroy
  District of Columbia· 2017-10-11
• Feldman v. Bowser
  District of Columbia· 2018-05-30
• Steven D. Payne, Sr. v. Donna Frett Gregory as Senate President of the 34th Legislature of the VI and Its Membership
  Superior Court of The Virgin Islands· 2024-01-18

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Baker v. Carr
  Supreme Court· 1962-03-26· cited 6,173×
• Powell v. McCormack
  Supreme Court· 1969-10-13· cited 3,053×
• Morgan v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-03-02· cited 76×
• Stephen L. Morgan v. United States of America
  D.C. Circuit· 1986-09-09· cited 32×
• Brown v. Hansen
  Third Circuit· 1992-08-31· cited 18×
• Mapp v. Lawaetz
  Third Circuit· 1989-08-04· cited 18×