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SUPREME COURT ROUNDUP: Justices Permit Immigrants to Challenge Deportations 

Chief Justice Rehnquist announced that the court would meet again on Thursday and would conclude its term then by announcing its remaining decisions. Four cases remain: another immigration case, a property rights case, a challenge to restrictions on tobacco advertising, and a case on a habeas corpus issue. . .

The court ruled 6 to 3 that a federal law that requires mushroom growers to pay assessments for a federal advertising program violated the growers' First Amendment rights against compelled speech. . .

In a dissenting opinion, Justice Breyer said this analysis created an incentive to increase government regulation. He said it called into question the constitutionality of a government program to require tobacco companies to help pay for advertising that warned of the dangers of smoking. Justices Ginsburg and O'Connor also dissented in United States v. United Foods, No. 00-276, which upheld a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati. [This graph only]

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