United States Supreme Court - May 2003 Opinion Summaries

BUNKLEY v. FLORIDA

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In failing to determine whether the "common pocketknife" exception to Florida's definition of a weapon encompassed petitioner's pocketknife at the...

BLACK & DECKER DISABILITY PLAN v. NORD

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
ERISA does not require plan administrators making disability determinations to accord special deference to the opinions of treating physicians, over...

NAT'L PARK HOSPITALITY ASS'N v. DEP'T OF THE INTERIOR

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Government Contracts
A National Park Service regulation, purporting to render the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 inapplicable to contracts entered into by concessioners...

CHAVEZ v. MARTINEZ

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
A 42 U.S.C. section 1983 plaintiff's Fifth Amendment rights were not violated through questioning by police, where he was never charged and no...

NEVADA DEP'T OF HUMAN RES. v. HIBBS

Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Employees of the state of Nevada may recover money damages in the event of the state's failure to comply with the family-care provision of the Family...

CITY OF LOS ANGELES v. DAVID

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
A city's failure to provide a sufficiently prompt hearing to recover money paid for a parking violation did not amount to a due process violation, as...

INYO COUNTY v. PAIUTE-SHOSHONE INDIANS OF THE BISHOP CMTY.

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law
An Indian tribe did not qualify as a "person" who may sue under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, under the circumstances, in an action asserting sovereign...

BREUER v. JIM'S CONCRETE OF BREVARD, INC.

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
A Fair Labor Standards Act provision stating that suit "may be maintained. . .in any Federal or State court of competent jurisdiction," 29 U.S.C....

PHARM. RESEARCH & MFRS. OF AM. v. WALSH

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Benefits, Remedies
A preliminary injunction preventing implementation of a state program reducing prescription drug prices for state residents was improper, where an...

PRICE v. VINCENT

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Michigan Supreme Court's finding, that a judge's comments were not sufficiently final to terminate jeopardy, was not contrary to or an unreasonable...