U.S. Supreme Court 2011 Term Arguments
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U.S. Supreme Court 2011 Term Arguments
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Magner v. Gallagher
A case which was dismissed regarding whether or not disparate impact claims are permitted under the Fair Housing Act.
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Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum
A case in which the Court found that the Alien Tort Statute does not give ground for United States law to be applied extraterrestrially to other sover...
Arizona v. United States
A case in which the Court found that Arizona's state immigration provisions conflicted in part with federal immigration laws.
Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band v. Patchak
A case in which the Court held that a neighbor of a proposed Indian casino had standing to sue the government for taking 147 acres of a town's land un...
RadLAX Gateway Hotel v. Amalgamated Bank
A case in which the Court held that a company could not obtain confirmation of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan that provided for the sale of its assets f...
Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter
A case in which the Court held that, under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, the government is required to pay all of the co...
Dorsey v. United States
A case in which the Court held that criminals who had committed drug crimes before the passage of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 but were sentenced a...
Christopher v. SmithKline
A case in which the Court held that the Secretary of Labor's definition of "outside salesman" apply to pharmaceutical sales representatives under the...
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
Cases in which the Court held that the minimum coverage requirement of the Affordable Care Act was constitutional, that Congress had the power to enfo...
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
Cases in which the Court held that the minimum coverage requirement of the Affordable Care Act was constitutional, that Congress had the power to enfo...
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
Cases in which the Court held that the minimum coverage requirement of the Affordable Care Act was constitutional, that Congress had the power to enfo...
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
Cases in which the Court held that the minimum coverage requirement of the Affordable Care Act was constitutional, that Congress had the power to enfo...
Vasquez v. United States
A case which the Court dismissed regarding whether or not the Seventh Circuit violated Supreme Court precedent on harmless error by focusing its analy...
Reichle v. Howards
A case in which the Court held that police officers and federal agents cannot be sued for violating someone’s rights, as long as the right that was su...
Miller v. Alabama
A case in which the Court found it to be a violation of the Eighth Amendment to impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of paro...
Miller v. Alabama
A case in which the Court found it to be a violation of the Eighth Amendment to impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of paro...
Southern Union Company v. United States
A case in which the Court held that the rule applied in Apprendi v. New Jersey, where the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a jury trial requires that an...
Astrue v. Capato
A case in which the Court held that twins, born through in vitro fertilization after the death of their biological father, were not "children" under T...
Armour v. City of Indianapolis
A case in which the Court held that an Indiana town did not violate residents' Fourteenth Amendment rights when it denied them reimbursement for payin...
Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum
A case in which the Court found that the Alien Tort Statute does not give ground for United States law to be applied extraterrestrially to other sover...
Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority
A case in which the Court held that the word "individual" in the Torture Victim Protection Act means a natural person and does not impose any liabilit...
Wood v. Milyard
A case in which the Court held that, under Day v. McDonough, appellate courts have the authority, though not the obligation, to raise a forfeited stat...
Elgin v. Department of the Treasury
A case in which the Court held that the Civil Service Reform Act precludes federal courts' jurisdiction in cases where federal employees seek equitabl...
United States v. Alvarez
A case in which the Court found that the Stolen Valor Act violated the First Amendment.
Blueford v. Arkansas
A case in which the Court held that an Arkansas man's rights against double jeopardy were not violated after his first murder trial was dismissed when...
Freeman v. Quicken Loans, Inc.
A case in which the Court held that Section 8(b) of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act prohibits a real estate service provider from charging a...
Taniguchi v. Kan Pacific Saipan
A case in which the Court held that the winner of a federal-court lawsuit cannot be reimbursed by the losing party for any document translation costs...
Vartelas v. Holder
A case in which the Court held that 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(13)(C)(v) cannot be applied retroactively to a lawful permanent resident who pleads guilty to a...
Holder v. Gutierrez
A case in which the Court held that an unemancipated minor cannot use his or her parent's years of residency to fulfill the requirements for having a...
Filarsky v. Delia
A case in which the Court found that a private attorney retained by a governmental agency is not prevented from claiming qualified immunity simply bec...
United States v. Home Concrete & Supply
A case in which the Court held that section 6501(e)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code does not apply when a taxpayer overstates the amount of propert...
Roberts v. Sea-Land Services
A case in which the Court held that the Longshore Act sets the period when an injured worker is awarded disability compensation as the fiscal year whe...
Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals
A case in which the Court held that states have sovereign immunity to suits brought under the self-care provision of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Knox v. Service Employees International Union
A case in which the Court found that, under the First Amendment, public-sector unions are not permitted to impose a special assessment fee without the...
FCC v. Fox Television Stations
A case in which the Court determined that an FCC policy regarding profane language was too vague, and which was remanded to the Second Circuit Court o...
Perry v. Perez
A case which the Court remanded regarding whether or not a Texas district court abused its discretion under the Voting Rights Act when it redrew 36 di...
Kappos v. Hyatt
A case in which the Court held that a patent applicant's ability to introduce new evidence in a civil action against the Patent and Trademark Office w...
Sackett v. EPA
A case in which the Court found that homeowners have a right to go to court over a Clean Water Act order of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.
A case in which the Court held that certain diagnostic medical tests are unpatentable products of nature.
PPL Montana v. Montana
A case in which the Court held that the constitutional test for determining whether a section of a river is navigable for title purposes requires a tr...