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United States Supreme Court - June 2010 Opinion Summaries

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Sears v. Upton
United States Supreme Court
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing 
In a capital murder prosecution, the Georgia Supreme Court's affirmance of a denial of post-conviction relief is vacated where the state... 		06/29/2010 09–8854
McDonald v. City of Chicago
United States Supreme Court
Government Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure 
In an action against the City of Chicago alleging that the City's handgun ban left plaintiffs vulnerable to criminals, judgment for defendants is... 		06/28/2010 08-1521
Free Enterprise Fund v. Pub. Co. Acctg. Oversight Bd.
United States Supreme Court
Administrative Law, Government Law, Constitutional Law 
In an action against the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and its members, seeking, inter alia, a declaratory judgment that the Board was... 		06/28/2010 08–861
Bilski v. Kappos
United States Supreme Court
Patent, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property 
In a patent application seeking protection for a claimed invention explaining how commodities buyers and sellers in the energy market could protect,... 		06/28/2010 08–964
Christian Legal Soc. v. Martinez
United States Supreme Court
Government Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law 
In an action against Hastings College of Law, a public law school, alleging that Hastings' refusal to grant a Christian group "Registered Student... 		06/28/2010 08–1371
Morrison v. Nat'l Australia Bank Ltd.
United States Supreme Court
Civil Procedure, Securities Law 
In a securities fraud action by Australian citizens claiming that defendant corporation and its officers manipulated financial models to make the... 		06/24/2010 08-1191
Granite Rock Co. v. Int'l. Brotherhood of Teamsters
United States Supreme Court
Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law 
In an action against a labor union by an employer, invoking federal jurisdiction under section 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA),... 		06/24/2010 08-1214
Skilling v. US
United States Supreme Court
Criminal Law & Procedure 
The Fifth Circuit's affirmance of defendant Jeffrey Skilling's honest-services fraud conviction is affirmed in part where pretrial publicity and... 		06/24/2010 08-1394
Magwood v. Patterson
United States Supreme Court
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus 
In a capital habeas matter, the Eleventh Circuit's reversal of the grant of petitioner's petition is reversed where, because petitioner-s habeas... 		06/24/2010 09-158
Black v. US
United States Supreme Court
Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, White Collar Crime 
The Seventh Circuit's affirmance of defendants' honest-services mail fraud convictions is vacated where: 1) per the ruling today in Skilling v. US,... 		06/24/2010 08-876

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