United States Supreme Court - January 2007 Opinion Summaries

Jones v. Bock

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
Procedural rules adopted by the Sixth Circuit and other lowers courts, designed to implement the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) exhaustion...

Osborn v. Haley

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In the context of the Westfall Act, which accords federal employees absolute immunity from tort claims arising out of acts undertaken in the course of...

Cunningham v. California

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
California's determinate sentencing law, by placing sentence-elevating factfinding within the judge's province, violates a defendant's right to trial...

Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In the context of 8 U.S.C. section 1101(a)(43)(G), which provides for removal from the United States of an alien convicted of "a theft offense ... for...

Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Sorrell

Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In cases under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA), railroad negligence and employee contributory negligence are governed by the same...

Burton v. Stewart

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Denial of a habeas petition challenging the constitutionality of petitioner's sentence under Apprendi is vacated where petitioner failed to comply...

MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Dismissal of a drug manufacturer's patent and contract declaratory judgment action, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, is reversed where...

US v. Resendiz-Ponce

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
The Ninth Circuit's reversal of respondent's conviction for illegally attempting to reenter the U.S. is reversed where the indictment at issue was not...