United States Supreme Court - January 2012 Opinion Summaries

National Meat Association v. Harris

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law
In a suit by a trade association representing meatpackers and processors to enjoin enforcement of a California statute affecting swine...

Reynolds v. US

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prosecution for failure to register as a sex offender under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act in which the Third Circuit...

Ryburn v. Huff

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In an action under 42 USC section 1983 alleging that police officers violated the plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment rights by entering their home without a...

US v. Jones

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a prosecution for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, the judgment of the Court of Appeals for...

Perry v. Perez

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In cases challenging redistricting plans in Texas for race discrimination under the federal Constitution and section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,...

Maples v. Thomas

Habeas Corpus, Criminal Law & Procedure
Judgment denying a state prisoner's petition for federal habeas corpus relief is reversed and the case is remanded, where: 1) there was cause to...

Mims v. Arrow Financial Services, LLC

Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Debt Collection, Civil Procedure
In a damages action brought in federal district court, alleging that the respondent, seeking to collect a debt, violated the Telephone Consumer...

Golan v. Holder

Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law
In a suit by orchestra conductors, musicians, publishers, and others who formerly enjoyed free access to literary and artistic works removed from the...

Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal from a judgment of the appeals court vacating the trial court's dismissal of plaintiff's ADA action on the grounds that the defendant was...

Pacific Operators Offshore, LLP v. Valladolid

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Oil and Gas Law, Workers' Compensation
In an appeal from a judgment of the appeals court vacating an administrative dismissal of respondent's Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) claim...