Volume 565
Citation: 565 U.S. 648
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: March 5, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent was convicted of capital murder and subsequently commenced federal habeas proceedings by filing a request for appointment of counsel under 18 U.S.C. 3599. Section 3599(e) contemplated that appointed counsel could ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 625
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 29, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: George Corson and his wife sued respondents, claiming injury from Corson's exposure to asbestos in locomotives and locomotive parts distributed by respondents. The Corsons alleged state-law claims of defective design and ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 606
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 22, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court granted certiorari in these cases to decide whether Medicaid providers and recipients could maintain a cause of action under the Supremacy Clause to enforce a federal Medicaid law. Since the Court granted certiorari, ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 576
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 22, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: This case concerned three rivers which flow through Montana and then beyond its borders. At issue was whether discrete, identifiable segments of these rivers in Montana were nonnavigable, as federal law defined that concept ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 535
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 22, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondents filed an action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against petitioners, police officers, alleging that the officers had subjected them to an unreasonable search in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The district court granted ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 478
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 21, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners, natives and citizens of Japan who have been lawful permanent residents of the United States since 1984, appealed a removal order after husband pleaded guilty to one count of willfully making and subscribing a ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 499
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 21, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent, a prison inmate, sought to suppress his confession under Miranda v. Arizona after he was subjected to custodial interrogation when he was escorted from his prison cell by a corrections officer to a conference ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 530
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 21, 2012
Citation: 565 U.S. 400
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 23, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent was convicted of drug trafficking and conspiracy charges. The District Court suppressed GPS data from a vehicle parked outside of respondent's residence, but held the remaining data admissible because respondent ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 452
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 23, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a trade association representing meatpackers and processors, sued to enjoin enforcement of a California law against swine slaughterhouses, arguing that the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA), 21 U.S.C. 601, et ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 432
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 23, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: This case concerned the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (Act), 18 U.S.C. 2250(a), which required convicted sex offenders to provide state governments with, and to update, information for state and federal sex ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 388
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 20, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: The 2010 census showed an enormous increase in Texas' population which required the State to redraw its electoral districts for the United States Congress, the State Senate, and the State House of Representatives, in order ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 368
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 18, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner filed a damages action in Federal District Court, alleging that respondent, seeking to collect a debt, violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. 227, by repeatedly using an automatic ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 302
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 18, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners are orchestra conductors, musicians, publishers, and others who formerly enjoyed free access to literary and artistic works section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), 17 U.S.C. 104A, 109(a), removed ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 266
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 18, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in Alabama state court. Petitioner sought postconviction relief in state court under Alabama Rule 32, alleging, among other things, that his trial attorneys failed ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 207
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 11, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent, widow of an employee of Pacific Operators Offshore, sought benefits under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA), 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq., pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 171
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 11, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Hosanna-Tabor, a member congregation of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, operated a small school in Michigan offering a "Christian-centered education" to students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The Synod classified ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 228
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 11, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of theft by unauthorized taking. On appeal, defendant argued that the trial court erred in requiring an initial showing that police arranged a suggestive identification procedure. Suggestive circumstances ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 118
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 10, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent sought damages from employees at a privately run federal prison in California, claiming that they had deprived him of adequate medical care in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 73
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 10, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was convicted of first-degree murder based on the testimony of a single eyewitness. During state postconviction proceedings, petitioner obtained police files containing statements by the eyewitness contradicting ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 134
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 10, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: This case interpreted two provisions of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, (AEDPA). The first, 28 U.S.C. 2253(c), provided that a habeas petitioner must obtain a certificate of appealability (COA) ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 95
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 10, 2012
Justia Opinion Summary: Although respondents' credit card agreement required their claims to be resolved by binding arbitration, they filed a lawsuit against petitioner and a division of petitioner bank, alleging, inter alia, violations of the Credit ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 42
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 12, 2011
Justia Opinion Summary: This case concerned the BIA's policy for deciding when resident aliens could apply to the Attorney General for relief from deportation under a now-repealed provision of the immigration law. The Court held that the BIA's policy ...
Citation: 565 U.S. 34
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: November 8, 2011
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant filed a federal habeas corpus petition in district court, alleging, inter alia, that the introduction of his nontestifying codefendants' statements violated the Confrontation Clause. At issue was whether "clearly ...
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