Volume 567

Am. Tradition P'ship, Inc. v. Bullock
Citation: 567 U.S. 516
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 25, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: Montana state law provides that a "corporation may not make ... an expenditure in connection with a candidate or a political committee that supports or opposes a candidate or a political party." Mont. Code 13–35–227(1). ...

Arizona v. United States
Citation: 567 U.S. 387
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 25, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: The district court entered a preliminary injunction concerning four provisions of Arizona S. B. 1070, enacted in 2010: Section 3 makes failure to comply with federal alien-registration requirements a state misdemeanor; 5(C)makes ...

Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp.
Citation: 567 U.S. 142
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 18, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners, employed by respondent as pharmaceutical sales representatives, filed suit alleging that respondent violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. 206-207, by failing to compensate them for overtime. ...

Dorsey v. United States
Citation: 567 U.S. 260
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 21, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants, convicted of selling crack cocaine in 2007 and 2008, were not sentenced until 2010, after amendment of the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act eliminated a 100-to-1 disparity between the amounts of crack cocaine and powder ...

Elgin v. Dept. of Treasury
Citation: 567 U.S. 1
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 11, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: Under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA), 5 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., certain federal employees could obtain administrative and judicial review of specified adverse employment actions. At issue was whether the CSRA provided ...

Fed. Commc'n Comm'n v. Fox Television Stations, Inc.
Citation: 567 U.S. 239
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 21, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: In the 1970s the FCC began enforcing 18 U.S.C. 1464, which bans broadcast of "any obscene, indecent, or profane language." This case concerns two isolated utterances of obscene words during live broadcasts aired by Fox and ...

First American Financial Corp. v. Edwards
Citation: 567 U.S. 756
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 28, 2012
Knox v. Serv. Emps. Int'l Union Local 1000
Citation: 567 U.S. 298
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 21, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: California law permits public employees to create an agency shop bargaining unit so that all employees are represented by a union. Employees who do not join must pay "chargeable expenses;" the union may not require nonmembers ...

Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak
Citation: 567 U.S. 209
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 18, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner requested that the Secretary of the Interior take into trust on its behalf a tract of land known as the Bradley Property, which petitioner intended to use "for gaming purposes." The Secretary took title to the ...

Miller v. Alabama
Citation: 567 U.S. 460
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 25, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: In each of two underlying cases, a 14-year-old was convicted of murder and sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The highest courts of Alabama and Arkansas upheld the sentences. ...

National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
Citation: 567 U.S. 519
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 28, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court has upheld the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. While only four Justices found its requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance ...

Parker v. Matthews
Citation: 567 U.S. 37
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 11, 2012
Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter
Citation: 567 U.S. 182
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 18, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDA), 25 U.S.C. 450 et seq., directed the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts with willing tribes, pursuant to which those tribes would provide services ...

Southern Union Co. v. United States
Citation: 567 U.S. 343
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 21, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: The company was convicted of violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act for knowingly storing liquid mercury without a permit "on or about September 19, 2002 to October 19, 2004." Violations are punishable by a ...

Tennant v. Jefferson County
Citation: 567 U.S. 758
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: September 25, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs claimed that West Virginia's 2011 congressional redistricting plan violated the "one person, one vote" principle that the Court held to be embodied in Article I, section 2, of the United States Constitution. A ...

United States v. Alvarez
Citation: 567 U.S. 709
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 28, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: The Stolen Valor Act makes it a crime to falsely claim receipt of military decorations or medals and provides an enhanced penalty if the Congressional Medal of Honor is involved, 18 U. S. C. 704 (b),(c). After pleading guilty ...

Williams v. Illinois
Citation: 567 U.S. 50
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 18, 2012

Justia Opinion Summary: In petitioner's bench trial for rape, the prosecution called an expert who testified that a DNA profile produced by an outside lab matched a profile produced by the state police lab using a sample of petitioner's blood. At ...

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