Volume 563

Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
Citation: 563 U.S. 731
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 26, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent alleged that, after the September 11th terrorist attacks, then-Attorney General Ashcroft authorized federal officials to detain terrorism suspects using the federal material-witness statute, 18 U.S.C. 3144. Respondent ...

Astra USA, Inc. v. Santa Clara County
Citation: 563 U.S. 110
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: March 21, 2011
AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion
Citation: 563 U.S. 333
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 4, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: Respondents filed a complaint against AT&T Mobility LLC ("AT&T"), which was later consolidated with a putative class action, alleging that AT&T had engaged in false advertising and fraud by charging sales tax on phones it ...

Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
Citation: 563 U.S. 776
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 31, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: The Board of Trustees of Stanford University filed suit against Roche Molecular Systems ("Roche") claiming that their HIV test kits infringed upon Stanford's patents. The suit stemmed from Stanford's employment of a research ...

Bobby v. Mitts
Citation: 563 U.S. 395
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 2, 2011
Brown, et al. v. Plata, et al.
Citation: 563 U.S. 493
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 16, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: The State appealed a three-judge district court order directing California to remedy two ongoing violations of the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause, a guarantee binding on the States by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth ...

Camreta v. Greene, et al.; Alford v. Greene, et al.
Citation: 563 U.S. 692
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 16, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: Nearly a decade ago, petitioners, a state child protective services worker and a county deputy sheriff, interviewed then 9-year-old S.G. at her Oregon elementary school about allegations that her father had sexually abused ...

Chamber of Commerce of United States of America, et al. v. Whiting
Citation: 563 U.S. 582
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 23, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and various business and civil rights organizations (collectively, "Chamber") filed a federal preenforcement suit against those charged with administering the Legal ...

CIGNA Corp. v. Amara et al.
Citation: 563 U.S. 421
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 2, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: Respondents, on behalf of beneficiaries of the CIGNA Corporation's ("CIGNA") Pension Plan, challenged the new plan's adoption, claiming that CIGNA's notice of the changes was improper, particularly because the new plan in ...

Connick v. Thompson
Citation: 563 U.S. 51
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 9, 2011
Cullen v. Pinholster
Citation: 563 U.S. 170
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 4, 2011
Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co., et al.
Citation: 563 U.S. 804
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 26, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, the lead plaintiff in a putative securities fraud class action, filed suit against respondent alleging violations under section 10(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. 78a et seq., and Securities ...

Fowler v. United States
Citation: 563 U.S. 668
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 16, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: While preparing to rob a bank, petitioner and others were discovered by a local police officer, whom petitioner killed. Petitioner was convicted of violating the federal witness tampering statute, 18 U.S.C. 1512(a)(1)(C). ...

Fox v. Vice
Citation: 563 U.S. 826
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 31, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: Claiming that he was subjected to dirty tricks during his successful campaign to become the police chief of Vinton, La., plaintiff filed a state court suit against the incumbent chief and the town (collectively, "defendant") ...

General Dynamics Corp. v. United States; The Boeing Co. v. United States
Citation: 563 U.S. 478
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 2, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: After petitioners fell behind schedule in developing a stealth aircraft (A-12) for the Navy, the contracting officer terminated their $4.8 billion fixed-price contract for default and ordered petitioners to repay approximately ...

Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S. A.
Citation: 563 U.S. 754
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 26, 2011
Kentucky v. King
Citation: 563 U.S. 452
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 27, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent entered a conditional guilty plea to charges of trafficking in marijuana, first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance, and second-degree persistent felony offender status and appealed the denial of his motion ...

Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano
Citation: 563 U.S. 27
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 6, 2011
McNeill v. United States
Citation: 563 U.S. 816
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 6, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). At sentencing, the district court determined that defendant ...

Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States ex rel. Kirk
Citation: 563 U.S. 401
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 26, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent filed an action under the False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C. 3730(e)(4)(A), alleging that his former employer had submitted hundreds of false claims for payment under its federal contracts. At issue was whether ...

Sossamon v. Texas
Citation: 563 U.S. 277
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: March 22, 2011
Tolentino v. New York
Citation: 563 U.S. 123
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: March 22, 2011
United States v. Tinklenberg
Citation: 563 U.S. 647
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 23, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent's trial on federal drug and gun charges began 287 days after his arraignment. The Sixth Circuit agreed with the District Court that many of the 287 days were excludable under the lists of exclusions from the 70 ...

United States v. Tohono O'odham Nation
Citation: 563 U.S. 307
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 4, 2011

Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent filed suit in Federal District Court against federal officials who managed tribal assets held in trust by the Federal Government alleging violations of fiduciary duty and requesting equitable relief. The next ...

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