United States Supreme Court - December 2009 Opinion Summaries

Beard v. Kindler

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a capital habeas matter involving whether Pennsylvania's fugitive forfeiture rule provided an adequate basis to bar federal habeas review of...

Mohawk Indus., Inc. v. Carpenter

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In an unlawful termination suit wherein defendant-employer appealed from an order granting plaintiff's motion to compel the production of documents...

Union Pac. R.R. Co. v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Eng'rs.

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In an arbitration before the National Railroad Adjustment Board (NRAB) between a railroad and a union regarding disciplinary action against certain...

Alvarez v. Smith

Asset Forfeiture, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case involving whether Illinois law provides a sufficiently speedy opportunity for an individual, whose car or cash police...

Michigan v. Fisher

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In an assault prosecution, grant of petitioner's motion to suppress evidence that he pointed a rifle at an officer when he entered his house is...