List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 553
This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 553 of the United States Reports:
| Case name | Citation | Date decided |
|---|---|---|
| United States v. Clintwood Elkhorn Min. Co. | 553 U.S. 1 | April 15, 2008 |
| MeadWestvaco Corp. v. Ill. Dept. of Revenue | 553 U.S. 16 | 2008 |
| Baze v. Rees | 553 U.S. 35 | 2008 |
| Burgess v. United States | 553 U.S. 124 | 2008 |
| Begay v. United States | 553 U.S. 137 | 2008 |
| Felony driving while intoxicated is not a “violent felony” within meaning of section of the Armed Career Criminal Act imposing special mandatory 15-year prison term upon felons who unlawfully possess a firearm and who have three or more convictions for violent felonies. | ||
| Virginia v. Moore | 553 U.S. 164 | 2008 |
| A warrantless arrest for driving with a suspended license was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment even though the arrest was not permitted under state law, so the fruits of the search incident to that arrest were admissible. | ||
| Crawford v. Marion County Election Board | 553 U.S. 181 | 2008 |
| A statute requiring voters to show a picture ID is constitutional. | ||
| Gonzalez v. United States | 553 U.S. 242 | 2008 |
| The right to have a district judge preside over jury selection can be waived by counsel, allowing a magistrate judge to serve as a substitute. | ||
| United States v. Ressam | 553 U.S. 272 | 2008 |
| An person who possessed explosives "during" the commission of another crime is eligible for a mandatory 10-year sentence on top of any other sentence even if the explosives were not related to the crime they committed. | ||
| United States v. Williams | 553 U.S. 285 | 2008 |
| Dept. of Revenue v. Davis | 553 U.S. 328 | 2008 |
| United States v. Rodriquez | 553 U.S. 377 | 2008 |
| A Washington state drug-trafficking conviction, for which the maximum term was 10 years under the state recidivist provision, qualifies as "a serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act. | ||
| Riley v. Kennedy | 553 U.S. 406 | 2008 |
| A court's order resolving liability without addressing a plaintiff's requests for relief is not a final judgment. | ||
| CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries | 553 U.S. 442 | 2008 |
| 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. | ||
| United States v. Santos | 553 U.S. 507 | 2008 |
| The rule of lenity requires that the federal money-laundering statute's use of the inherently-ambiguous term "proceeds" be read in the light favorable to the accused. Here, that means it includes "profit" and not "receipts." | ||
| Regalado Cuellar v. United States | 553 U.S. 550 | 2008 |
| The federal money-laundering statute contains no "legitimate wealth" requirement, and mere proof that the defendant was attempting to conceal the money is not enough to uphold a conviction. | ||
| Richlin Sec. Serv. Co. v. Chertoff | 553 U.S. 571 | 2008 |
| A prevailing party that satisfies the Equal Access to Justice Act's other requirements may recover its paralegal fees from the Government at prevailing market rates. | ||
| Engquist v. Or. Dept. of Agric. | 553 U.S. 591 | 2008 |
| The class-of-one theory of equal protection does not apply in the public employment context. | ||
| Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. | 553 U.S. 617 | 2008 |
| Patent license language insufficient to create limited license and avoid effect of exhaustion doctrine; exhaustion doctrine applies to method claims and to authorized sale of article that substantially embodies claimed invention. | ||
| Bridge v. Phoenix Bond & Indemnity Co. | 553 U.S. 639 | 2008 |
| A RICO plaintiff asserting a claim predicated on mail fraud does not need to show that that plaintiff relied on the defendant's alleged misrepresentations. | ||
| Allison Engine Co. v. United States ex rel. Sanders | 553 U.S. 662 | 2008 |
| 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. | ||
| 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, even when those forces are acting as part of a multinational coalition. | ||
| Irizarry v. United States | 553 U.S. 708 | 2008 |
| Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(h) does not apply to a variance from a recommended Federal Sentencing Guidelines range; that rule applies only to "departures." | ||
| Boumediene v. Bush | 553 U.S. 723 | 2008 |
| Foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention in United States courts. Section 7 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 is unconstitutional. | ||
| Republic of Philippines v. Pimentel | 553 U.S. 851 | 2008 |
| Foreign sovereigns are "indispensable parties" under Rule 19 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. | ||
| Taylor v. Sturgell | 553 U.S. 880 | 2008 |
| A "virtually represented" non-party cannot be bound by a judgment. | ||
| Fitzgerald v. Barnstable Sch. Committee | 553 U.S. 1093 | 2008 |
| Title IX does not preclude a §1983 action alleging unconstitutional gender discrimination in schools. | ||
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