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United States Supreme Court - January 2009 Opinion Summaries

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Kennedy v. Plan Admin. for DuPont Savings & Inv. Plan
United States Supreme Court
ERISA, Family Law, Labor & Employment Law 
In an ERISA case involving the Act's limitation on assignment or alienation of benefits, and a divorced spouse's purported waiver of her entitlement... 		01/26/2009 07-636
Van de Kamp v. Goldstein
United States Supreme Court
Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure 
In the context of 42 U.S.C. section 1983 civil rights suits, a prosecutor's absolute immunity extends to claims that the prosecution failed to... 		01/26/2009 07-854
Nelson v. US
United States Supreme Court
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing 
The Court re-emphasizes that its cases do not allow a sentencing court (as opposed to an appellate court) to presume that a sentence within the... 		01/26/2009 08-5657
Arizona v. Johnson
United States Supreme Court
Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence 
In a case involving the authority of police officers to "stop and frisk" a passenger in a motor vehicle after a traffic stop, the Court rules that: 1)... 		01/26/2009 07-1122
US v. Eurodif S.A.
United States Supreme Court
Commercial Law, Contracts, International Trade, Tax Law  (Industry: Services)
In a case involving the propriety of the Commerce Department's treatment of certain transactions as sales of "foreign merchandise" subject to the... 		01/26/2009 07-1059
Crawford v. Metro. Gov't of Nashville
United States Supreme Court
Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law  (Industry: Services)
The protection of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids retaliation by employers against employees who report workplace race or... 		01/26/2009 06-1595
Locke v. Karass
United States Supreme Court
Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law  (Industry: Services)
In a case involving circumstances where a local union charges nonmembers a service fee that (among other things) reflects an affiliation fee that the... 		01/21/2009 07-610
Spears v. US
United States Supreme Court
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing  (Industry: Services)
In proceedings arising from the government's appeal of a sentence for conspiracy to distribute cocaine base and powder cocaine, a circuit court's... 		01/21/2009 08-5721
Pearson v. Callahan
United States Supreme Court
Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence  (Industry: Services)
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against state law enforcement officers who conducted a warrantless search of plaintiff's house incident to his... 		01/21/2009 07-751
Waddington v. Sarausad
United States Supreme Court
Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus  (Industry: Services)
In a case arising from a fatal drive-by shooting of a group of students standing in front of a Seattle high school, grant of a petition for habeas... 		01/21/2009 07-772

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