United States Supreme Court - June 2010 Opinion Summaries

Sears v. Upton

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...

McDonald v. City of Chicago

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...

Free Enterprise Fund v. Pub. Co. Acctg. Oversight Bd.

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...

Bilski v. Kappos

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,...

Christian Legal Soc. v. Martinez

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...

Black v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure
The Seventh Circuit's affirmance of defendants' honest-services mail fraud convictions is vacated where 1) the honest-services component of the...

Doe v. Reed

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a First Amendment challenge to the Washington Public Records Act based on its provision permitting the disclosure of referendum petition signers'...

Magwood v. Patterson

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...

Black v. US

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,...

Skilling v. US

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...