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| ''[[Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1]]'' |
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| [[affirmative action]]; using race as a tie-breaker in assigning students to public schools |
| [[affirmative action]]; using race as a tie-breaker in assigning students to public schools |
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| ''[[Panetti v. Quarterman]]'' |
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| ''[[Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker]]'' |
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| legality of [[punitive damages]] award under federal maritime law for the [[Exxon Valdez oil spill]] |
| legality of [[punitive damages]] award under federal maritime law for the [[Exxon Valdez oil spill]] |
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| ''[[Kennedy v. Louisiana]]'' |
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| does the [[Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Eighth Amendment]] forbid the death penalty for rape of a child? |
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| does the [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Second Amendment]] allows a state or local government to outlaw the private possession of handguns? |
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| ''[[Davis v. Federal Election Commission]]'' |
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| "Millionaire's amendment" to the [[Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002]] violates the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] |
| "Millionaire's amendment" to the [[Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002]] violates the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] |
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| ''[[Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council]]'' |
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| [[military]] preparedness outweighs environmental concerns, as [[Navy]] needs to train its crews to detect modern, silent [[submarines]] |
| [[military]] preparedness outweighs environmental concerns, as [[Navy]] needs to train its crews to detect modern, silent [[submarines]] |
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| ''[[Altria Group, Inc. v. Good]]'' |
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| federal law does not preempt the states' prerogative to regulate the advertisement of tar and nicotine rates in cigarettes |
| federal law does not preempt the states' prerogative to regulate the advertisement of tar and nicotine rates in cigarettes |
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| ''[[Herring v. United States]]'' |
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| evidence obtained during a search the police conducted as a result of an isolated act of negligence not related to the search is not subject to the [[exclusionary rule]] |
| evidence obtained during a search the police conducted as a result of an isolated act of negligence not related to the search is not subject to the [[exclusionary rule]] |
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| ''[[Oregon v. Ice]]'' |
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| the facts necessary for imposing consecutive prison terms need not be submitted to a jury in accordance with ''[[Apprendi v. New Jersey]]'' |
| the facts necessary for imposing consecutive prison terms need not be submitted to a jury in accordance with ''[[Apprendi v. New Jersey]]'' |
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Revision as of 06:58, 22 December 2010
This is a chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice John Roberts (September 29, 2005 to the present).
Decided cases
Decided and reported
The cases in this section have been decided and included in a final bound edition of U.S. Reports. They are listed in order of the date on which they were decided.
Case name | Citation | Summary |
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Gonzales v. Oregon | 546 U.S. 243 (2006) | Attorney General did not permissibly construe Controlled Substances Act to prohibit the distribution of drugs for physician-assisted suicide |
Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England | 546 U.S. 320 (2006) | Invalidating statute and lower courts rendering narrower declaratory and injunctive relief |
Rice v. Collins | 546 U.S. 333 (2006) | Habeas corpus relief may not be granted on the basis of debatable inferences used to overturn the trial court's finding vis-á-vis peremptory challenges |
Central Virginia Community College v. Katz | 546 U.S. 356 (2006) | state sovereign immunity under the 11th Amendment and the Bankruptcy Clause |
Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal | 546 U.S. 418 (2006) | Federal government could not bar religious use of hallucinogenic tea |
Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna | 546 U.S. 440 (2006) | Arbitrator must decide legality of contract unless arbitration clause is itself being challenged |
Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. McDonald | 546 U.S. 470 (2006) | agent of a party to a contract cannot state a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 because he himself does not have rights to make or enforce under the contract |
Dolan v. United States Postal Service | 546 U.S. 481 (2006) | scope of immunity of the United States Postal Service under the Federal Tort Claims Act |
Arbaugh v. Y & H Corporation | 546 U.S. 500 (2006) | "Employee-numerosity" requirement of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is substantive, rather than jurisdictional in nature |
Oregon v. Guzek | 546 U.S. 517 (2006) | States may constitutionally limit the evidence of innocence a defendant convicted of a capital offense may present at his sentencing hearing to the evidence already presented at his trial. |
Texaco, Inc. v. Dagher | 547 U.S. 1 (2006) | joint venture was not a price-fixing scheme under antitrust law |
Scheidler v. National Organization for Women | 547 U.S. 9 (2006) | physical violence unrelated to robbery or extortion falls outside the scope of the Hobbs Act |
Illinois Tool Works, Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc. | 547 U.S. 28 (2006) | patented products involved in product tying arrangements are not presumed to have market power under antitrust law |
Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights | 547 U.S. 47 (2006) | law schools receiving federal funds may not ban military recruiters |
United States v. Grubbs | 547 U.S. 90 (2006) | anticipatory search warrant did not violate the particularity clause of the 4th Amendment |
Georgia v. Randolph | 547 U.S. 103 (2006) | police cannot conduct a warrantless search in a home where one occupant consents and the other objects |
Day v. McDonough | 547 U.S. 198 (2006) | A State's unintentional failure to object to the filing of a habeas corpus petition after the statute of limitations has expired does not prevent a district court from dismissing the petition on its own initiative |
Northern Ins. Co. of N.Y. v. Chatham County | 547 U.S. 268 (2006) | sovereign immunity does not apply to admiralty suit against county |
Jones v. Flowers | 547 U.S. 220 (2006) | sufficiency of notice for tax sale |
Hartman v. Moore | 547 U.S. 250 (2006) | A plaintiff in a retaliatory-prosecution action against federal officials must plead and show the absence of probable cause for pressing the underlying criminal charges. |
Ark. Dep't of Human Servs. v. Ahlborn | 547 U.S. 268 (2006) | state liens on personal injury settlements |
Marshall v. Marshall | 547 U.S. 293 (2006) | federal bankruptcy court binding state court on inheritance question |
Holmes v. South Carolina | 547 U.S. 319 (2006) | limitations on exclusion of evidence in murder case, 6th Amendment |
DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno | 547 U.S. 332 (2006) | taxpayer standing in a Dormant Commerce Clause case |
Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc. | 547 U.S. 356 (2006) | fiduciary's recovery of personal injury settlement under ERISA |
eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C. | 547 U.S. 388 (2006) | nature of patent injunctions - revisiting Continental Paper Bag Co. v. Eastern Paper Bag Co. |
S. D. Warren Co. v. Maine Bd. of Env. Protection | 547 U.S. 370 (2006) | interpreting scope of activities covered by the Clean Water Act |
Brigham City v. Stuart | 547 U.S. 398 (2006) | reasonableness of officers' warrantless entry into a home to stop a fight under the "emergency aid exception" |
Garcetti v. Ceballos | 547 U.S. 410 (2006) | extent of public employees' First Amendment right to free speech in the workplace |
Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp. | 547 U.S. 451 (2006) | activities subject to RICO |
Zedner v. United States | 547 U.S. 489 (2006) | a criminal defendant may not prospectively waive his rights under the Speedy Trial Act |
House v. Bell | 547 U.S. 518 (2006) | Post-conviction DNA forensic evidence can be considered in death penalty appeals |
Hill v. McDonough | 547 U.S. 573 (2006) | a challenge to lethal injection as violating the Eighth Amendment properly raised a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and is not barred by previous habeas corpus petition |
Hudson v. Michigan | 547 U.S. 586 (2006) | evidence obtained with a search warrant is admissible even when police violate 'knock-and-announce' rule |
Rapanos v. United States | 547 U.S. 715 (2006) | whether wetlands are part of the "navigable waters of the United States" and thus regulated by the Clean Water Act |
Davis v. Washington | 547 U.S. 813 (2006) | whether a 911 call is "testimonial" under Crawford v. Washington |
Samson v. California | 547 U.S. 843 (2006) | evidence obtained in a suspicionless search of parolees is admissible, and not prohibited under the Fourth Amendment |
Dixon v. United States | 548 U.S. 1 (2006) | burden of proof for duress as a defense to Federal firearms law violations |
Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White | 548 U.S. 53 (2006) | a job reassignment which is dirtier and more strenuous may constitute retaliatory discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as may a month of suspension without pay even when the employee receives back pay |
Woodford v. Ngo | 548 U.S. 81 (2006) | the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires proper exhaustion of administrative remedies before an inmate can file a lawsuit |
United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez | 548 U.S. 140 (2006) | trial court's erroneous deprivation of a criminal defendant's choice of counsel entitles him to reversal of his conviction |
Kansas v. Marsh | 548 U.S. 163 (2006) | statute allowing the death penalty in cases where the aggravating and mitigating evidence are equal does not violate the Eighth Amendment |
Randall v. Sorrell | 548 U.S. 230 (2006) | campaign finance laws which limit expenditures violate the First Amendment, and the anticorruption benefits of contribution limits must be weighed against their First Amendment costs |
Arlington Central School Dist. Bd. of Ed. v. Murphy | 548 U.S. 291 (2006) | The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act does not authorize the award of experts' fees to prevailing plaintiffs |
Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon | 548 U.S. 331 (2006) | informing a suspect of his rights under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations |
League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry | 548 U.S. 399 (2006) | Texas's 2003 redistricting of District 23 constituted a violation of Latinos' rights under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, however mid-decade redistricting is constitutional as long as it is not solely motivated by partisan gain |
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld | 548 U.S. 557 (2006) | Guantanamo Bay detainees may not be tried by a military commission under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, and said military commission violates the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions, both of which apply to the detainees, in that accused and their counsels may be excluded from their trial and knowing what evidence has been put against them |
Clark v. Arizona | 548 U.S. 735 (2006) | constitutionality of Arizona's insanity defense statute |
Lopez v. Gonzales | 549 U.S. 47 (2006) | misdemeanor drug crimes as aggravated felonies |
Carey v. Musladin | 549 U.S. 70 (2006) | spectator publicity and the right to a fair trial; "clearly established" law under the AEDPA |
BP America Production Co. v. Burton | 549 U.S. 84 (2007) | Statute of limitations on contract actions by the Federal Government under 28 U.S.C. § 2415 is not applicable to administrative proceedings |
Medimmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. | 549 U.S. 118 (2007) | enforceability of patents before infringement |
Cunningham v. California | 549 U.S. 270 (2007) | applicability of Blakely v. Washington to California's determinate sentencing law |
Philip Morris USA v. Williams | 549 U.S. 346 (2007) | constitutional limitations on punitive damages |
Marrama v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts | 549 U.S. 365 (2007) | bad-faith exception to the right to convert Chapter 7 bankruptcy case to a Chapter 13 case |
Sinochem International Co., Ltd. v. Malaysia International Shipping Corporation | 549 U.S. 422 (2007) | District Court may respond immediately to defendant's forum non conveniens motion before resolving jurisdictional or other threshold concerns |
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency | 549 U.S. 497 (2007) | power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions |
Gonzales v. Carhart | 550 U.S. 124 (2007) | Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act |
James v. United States | 550 U.S. 192 (2007) | attempted burglary as a predicate crime under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
Microsoft v. AT&T | 550 U.S. 437 (2007) | copying software in a foreign country cannot violate U.S. patent law |
Scott v. Harris | 550 U.S. 372 (2007) | Fourth Amendment seizure in a high speed chase, qualified immunity |
KSR v. Teleflex | 550 U.S. 398 (2007) | Patent law, nonobviousness |
Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. | 550 U.S. 618 (2007) | statute of limitations on employment discrimination claims |
Davenport v. Washington Education Association | 550 U.S. 117 (2007) | A state may require that its public-sector unions receive authorization from nonmembers before spending their agency fees for election-related purposes |
Permanent Mission of India v. City of New York | 551 U.S. 193 (2007) | whether a municipality can sue other countries to collect unpaid taxes |
Bowles v. Russell | 551 U.S. 205 (2007) | Federal Courts of Appeals lack jurisdiction to hear habeas appeals that are filed late, even if the district court said the petitioner had additional time to file |
Brendlin v. California | 551 U.S. 249 (2007) | whether a passenger in an automobile is "detained" so that he may assert a Fourth Amendment violation stemming from the traffic stop itself |
Credit Suisse v. Billing | 551 U.S. 264 (2007) | Whether Congress's creation of the SEC implicitly exempted regulated industries from antitrust lawsuits |
Rita v. United States | 551 U.S. 338 (2007) | "reasonableness" of a federal prison sentence under United States v. Booker; continuing application of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines |
Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd. | 551 U.S. 308 (2007) | The proper standard for determining whether a plaintiff has alleged a "strong inference" of scienter under the PSLRA |
Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation | 551 U.S. 587 (2007) | taxpayer standing to pursue an Establishment Clause claim against President Bush's faith-based initiative |
Morse v. Frederick | 551 U.S. 393 (2007) | free speech rights of high school students ("Bong Hits 4 Jesus") |
Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. | 551 U.S. 449 (2007) | Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act's restriction on issue ads in election campaigns |
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (companion case) |
551 U.S. 701 (2007) | affirmative action; using race as a tie-breaker in assigning students to public schools |
Panetti v. Quarterman | 551 U.S. 930 (2007) | executing the mentally ill |
Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. | 551 U.S. 877 (2007) | applying rule of reason under Section 1 of the Sherman Act |
CBOCS West v. Humphries | 551 U.S. 442 (2008) | race retaliation claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 |
Watson v. United States | 552 U.S. 74 (2007) | whether trading drugs for a gun constitutes use of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924 and Bailey v. United States |
Kimbrough v. United States | 552 U.S. 85 (2007) | whether the 100:1 ratio between powder and crack cocaine imposed by the United States Sentencing Commission yields "reasonable" sentences |
Gall v. United States | 552 U.S. 38 (2007) | "reasonableness" of a federal prison sentence under United States v. Booker; continuing application of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines |
Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific-Atlanta | 552 U.S. 147 (2008) | third parties, such as investment banks, accounting firms and suppliers, can be shielded from liability if they engage in business with companies that are involved in securities fraud. |
Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons | 552 U.S. 214 (2008) | Case upholding the United States's sovereign immunity against tort claims brought when "any law enforcement officer" loses a person's property. |
Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc. | 552 U.S. 312 (2008) | Medical Device Amendment’s preemption clause bars common-law claims challenging the safety or effectiveness of a medical device marketed in a form that received premarket approval from the FDA. |
Preston v. Ferrer | 552 U.S. 346 (2008) | the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state laws declaring that certain disputes must be resolved by a state administrative agency |
Snyder v. Louisiana | 552 U.S. 472 (2008) | racial discrimination in jury selection; playing the "O.J. card" |
Medellín v. Texas | 552 U.S. 491 (2008) | whether the president may direct state courts to obey an order of the World Court ruling regarding the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations |
New Jersey v. Delaware | 552 U.S. 597 (2008) | boundary dispute between New Jersey and Delaware involving the Twelve-Mile Circle |
MeadWestvaco Corp. v. Illinois Dept. of Revenue | 553 U.S. 16 (2008) | determination of state tax liability for corporation operating in multiple states according to the "unitary business rule" |
Baze v. Rees | 553 U.S. 35 (2008) | constitutionality of lethal injection protocols under the Eighth Amendment |
Virginia v. Moore | 553 U.S. 164 (2008) | whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence discovered in a search conducted in violation of state law |
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board | 553 U.S. 181 (2008) | constitutionality of requiring voters to show ID before voting |
Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis | 553 U.S. 328 (2008) | Kentucky statute providing a preferential tax break to Kentucky residents who invest in bonds issued by the state and its municipalities does not discriminate against interstate commerce |
United States v. Williams | 553 U.S. 285 (2008) | constitutionality of the PROTECT Act, a 2003 law intended to bolster federal restriction against child pornography, in the wake of Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition |
Gomez-Perez v. Potter | 553 U.S. 474 (2008) | Federal employees who face retaliation after filing an age discrimination claim are authorized to sue under the federal-sector provision of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. |
Quanta v. LG Electronics | 553 U.S. 617 (2008) | patent exhaustion and its applicability to certain types of method patents |
Boumediene v. Bush | 553 U.S. 723 (2008) | whether the Military Detainee Treatment Act of 2006 unconstitutionally suspends the writ of habeas corpus |
Munaf v. Geren | 553 U.S. 674 (2008) | habeas corpus statute extends to American citizens held overseas by American forces operating subject to an American chain of command |
Indiana v. Edwards | 554 U.S. 164 (2008) | may a criminal defendant be competent to stand trial yet simultaneously not competent to represent himself at that trial? |
Greenlaw v. United States | 554 U.S. 237 (2008) | may a federal appeals court sua sponte increase a defendant's sentence on appeal, without a formal appeal by the government? |
Rothgery v. Gillespie County | 554 U.S. 191 (2008) | does a criminal defendant have a right to counsel at an ex parte arraignment? |
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker | 554 U.S. 471 (2008) | legality of punitive damages award under federal maritime law for the Exxon Valdez oil spill |
Kennedy v. Louisiana | 554 U.S. 407 (2008) | does the Eighth Amendment forbid the death penalty for rape of a child? |
Giles v. California | 554 U.S. 353 (2008) | the forfeiture by wrongdoing exception to out of court statements by a witness only applies where the defendant caused the witness's absence in order to eliminate their testimony at trial |
District of Columbia v. Heller | 554 U.S. 570 (2008) | does the Second Amendment allows a state or local government to outlaw the private possession of handguns? |
Davis v. Federal Election Commission | 554 U.S. 724 (2008) | "Millionaire's amendment" to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 violates the First Amendment |
Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council | 555 U.S. 7 (2008) | military preparedness outweighs environmental concerns, as Navy needs to train its crews to detect modern, silent submarines |
Altria Group, Inc. v. Good | 555 U.S. 70 (2008) | federal law does not preempt the states' prerogative to regulate the advertisement of tar and nicotine rates in cigarettes |
Herring v. United States | 555 U.S. 135 (2009) | evidence obtained during a search the police conducted as a result of an isolated act of negligence not related to the search is not subject to the exclusionary rule |
Oregon v. Ice | 555 U.S. 160 (2009) | the facts necessary for imposing consecutive prison terms need not be submitted to a jury in accordance with Apprendi v. New Jersey |
Decided, but not yet reported
The cases listed in this section may be up to a year and a half old; however, they are not yet included in the U.S. Reports. They are listed in order of the date on which they were decided, and a link is included to the Supreme Court's opinion.
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Waddington v. Sarausad | 07-772 | 1/21/09 | on federal habeas review, courts must accept state court determinations that jury instructions fully and correctly set out state law with regard to accomplice liability |
Pearson v. Callahan | 07-751 | 1/21/09 | Saucier v. Katz is overruled; courts need not determine whether a civil-rights plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated if they determine that the right was not clearly established at the time of the injury |
Crawford v. Nashville | 06-1595 | 1/26/09 | employees who cooperate with an internal investigation of alleged sexual harassment are protected against retaliation under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. |
Van de Kamp v. Goldstein | 07-854 | 1/26/09 | prosecutors are immune from suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for improperly supervising the disclosures made by line prosecutors pursuant to Brady v. Maryland |
United States v. Hayes | 07-608 | 2/24/09 | under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) people who have been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence crimes may not possess firearms as long as the government proves that the underlying offense involved a domestic relationship |
Pleasant Grove City v. Summum | 07-665 | 2/25/09 | a municipality that allows a privately donated Ten Commandments monument to be displayed on public property need not permit the religion of Summum to put up its own statue of similar size |
Negusie v. Mukasey | 07-499 | 3/3/09 | under Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the Board of Immigration Appeals must decide in the first instance whether the so-called "persecutor bar" applicable to asylum applicants applies to those who were forced to persecute others in their home country |
Wyeth v. Levine | 06-1249 | 3/4/09 | federal drug labeling requirements do not preempt state drug labeling requirements enacted to ensure that the public knew certain drugs are safe |
Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee | 07-1125 | 3/4/09 | Earlier decision overruled. Parents have the right to sue a school committee based on sexual harassment |
14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett | 07-581 | 4/1/09 | an employer and a union can agree that employees must resolve discrimination claims in arbitration instead of court |
Arizona v. Gant | 07-542 | 4/21/09 | police power to search an arrested person's vehicle is limited to safety concerns and evidence related to the actual arrest |
AT&T Corp. v. Hulteen | 07-543 | 5/18/09 | Held that maternity leave taken before the passage of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act is not retroactive and cannot be considered in calculating employee pension benefits. |
FCC v. Fox Television Stations | 07-582 | 4/28/09 | upheld regulation of the FCC to ban "fleeting expletives" on television broadcasts |
Dean v. United States | 08-5274 | 4/29/09 | Upheld sentence for discharging a firearm during a violent crime, Congress intended a defendant to be held strictly liable for such an offense |
Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co. | 08-22 | 6/8/09 | Due process requirements for judges' recusal |
United States ex rel. Eisenstein v. City of New York | 08-660 | 6/8/09 | Where the Government has not intervened or actively participated, private plaintiffs under the False Claims Act must filed an appeal within 30 days of the judgment or order being appealed, according to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure |
Allison Engine Co. v. United States ex rel. Sanders | 07-214 | 6/9/08 | Plaintiffs under the False Claims Act must demonstrate that the defendants intended to deceive the government, not simply that government money was used to pay the claim. |
District Attorney's Office v. Osborne | 08-6 | 6/18/09 | Found no due process, postconviction right to access to the state's evidence for DNA testing. |
Safford Unified School District v. Redding | 08-479 | 6/25/09 | strip search of a middle schooler violated the Fourth Amendment where the school lacked reasons to suspect either that the drugs presented a danger or that they were concealed in her underwear |
Ricci v. DeStefano | 07-1428 | 6/29/09 | White firefighters in New Haven suffered unfair discrimination because of their race when the city scrapped the results of a promotional exam. |
Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts | 07-591 | 6/25/09 | are forensic laboratory reports admissible under the Confrontation Clause as interpreted in Crawford v. Washington? |
Entergy v. Riverkeeper | 07-588 | 4/1/09 | may the EPA require power companies to engage in a cost-benefit analysis when selecting the "best technology available for minimizing adverse environmental impact" at cooling water intake structures? |
Ashcroft v. Iqbal | 07-1015 | 5/18/09 | whether top government officials can be held personally liable for allegedly knowing or condoning of racial and religious mistreatment of suspected terrorists |
Cone v. Bell | 07-1114 | 4/28/09 | whether a death row inmate has forfeited the opportunity to argue that prosecutors withheld evidence important to his defense |
Harbison v. Bell | 07-8521 | 4/1/09 | whether the federal government must provide lawyers to death row inmates seeking clemency in state proceedings |
Citizens United v. FEC | 08-205 | 1/21/10 | whether federal campaign finance laws apply to a critical film about Senator Hillary Clinton intended to be shown in theaters and on-demand to cable subscribers |
Flores-Figueroa v. United States | 08-108 | 5/4/09 | whether the law enhancing the sentence for identity theft requries proof that an individual knew that the identity card or number he had used belonged to another, actual person |
Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Mukasey | 08-322 | 6/22/09 | whether Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which gives the U.S. government authority to oversee state electoral-law changes, is no longer needed and is unconstitutional |
Padilla v. Kentucky | 08-651 | 3/31/09 | must a criminal defendant's lawyer advise him of the immigration-related consequences of a criminal conviction? |
Salazar v. Buono | 08-472 | 4/28/10 | First Amendment restrictions on displaying a cross on public property |
Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick | 08-103 | 3/2/10 | settlement of copyright infringement claims relating to an electronic database |
Graham v. Florida | 08-7412 |
5/17/10 | whether Roper v. Simmons should also apply to sentences of life without the possibility of parole |
Ontario v. Quon | 08-1332 | 6/17/10 | Privacy rights of public employees over text messages on employer-issued pagers. |
McDonald v. Chicago | 08-1521 | 6/28/10 | whether the Second Amendment should also apply against state and local governments |
Abbott v. United States | 09-479 | 11/15/2010 | Mandatory minimum sentences under federal sentencing law |
Los Angeles County v. Humphries | 09-350 | 11/30/10 | § 1983 actions are limited to those caused by a municipality's "policy or custom" regardless of whether the plaintiff seeks monetary or prospective relief |
Upcoming cases
The following is a partial list of cases that the Court has agreed to hear in October Term 2010 (October 2010-June 2011), listed in the order in which the Court agreed to hear them. These cases have not yet been decided.
Case name | Docket no. | Cert. granted on | Oral argument | Summary |
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Michigan v. Bryant | 09-150 | 03/01/10 | 10/5/10 | Are statements that a wounded crime victim made to police testimonial under the Confrontation Clause? |
Snyder v. Phelps | 09-751 | 03/08/10 | 10/6/10 | Whether the First Amendment protects Westboro Baptist Church's funeral protests. |
Flores-Villar v. United States | 09-5801 | 03/22/10 | 11/10/10 | Whether Nguyen v. INS permits gender discrimination which has no biological basis. |
Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association | 08-1448 | 04/26/10 | 11/2/10 | Whether the Constitution prevents the state of California from banning the sale of violent video games to minors. |
Arizona Christian School Tuition Org. v. Winn | 09-987 | 05/24/10 | 11/3/10 | Whether a tax credit program that provides dollar-for-dollar incentives to donations to school tuition groups, including those awarding tuition scholarships only to religious schools, is Constitutional? Consolidated with Garriott v. Winn, No. 09-991. |
AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion | 09-893 | 05/24/10 | 11/9/10 | Whether contracts that bar class action lawsuits should be allowed, on the basis that the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 preempts state laws prohibiting such contracts. |
Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting | 09-115 | 06/28/10 | 12/8/10 | Whether an Arizona law that sanctions employers who hire illegal immigrants is preempted by federal law (the state law at issue is not Arizona SB 1070). |
Henderson v. Shinseki | 09-1036 | 06/28/10 | 12/6/10 | Whether the time for seeking judicial review of the denial of a veteran’s claim for disability can be extended. |
Bullcoming v. New Mexico | 09-10876 | 09/28/10 | not set | Whether a defendant's Confrontation Clause rights cover a non-testifying laboratory analyst whose supervisor testifies as to test results that the analyst transcribed from a machine. |
Price v. Turner | 10-10 | 11/01/10 | not set | Whether a civil litigant must be provided counsel before a court holds him in contempt and jails him for one year for failure to pay child support. |
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