United States Supreme Court - February 2012 Opinion Summaries

Kurns v. Railroad Friction Products Corp.

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Transportation
In a design-defect and failure-to-warn suit by the estate of a man who had mesothelioma allegedly from his exposure to asbestos in locomotives and...

Douglas v. Independent Living Center of Southern California, Inc.

Government Benefits, Health Law, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
In consolidated cases challenging statutory Medicaid rate reductions by the state of California that were approved by the Centers for Medicare and...

PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana

Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities, Water Law
In a suit by power companies claiming that the state of Montana was barred from seeking compensation for their use of riverbeds, in which Montana...

Messerschmidt v. Millender

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a suit under 42 USC section 1983 alleging that the plaintiffs were subjected to an unreasonable search in violation of the Fourth Amendment because...

Marmet Health Care Center, Inc. v. Brown

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Health Law
In litigation involving three negligence suits against nursing homes in West Virginia, the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia...

Wetzel v. Lambert

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Evidence
On petition for habeas corpus claiming, inter alia, that the state's failure to disclose a "police activity sheet" violated his rights under Brady v....

Howes v. Fields

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Evidence
On petition for habeas corpus challenging the admissibility of a confession given while the prisoner was questioned by corrections officers within a...

Kawashima v. Holder

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, Tax Law
In removal proceedings against resident aliens who were convicted of willfully making and subscribing a false tax return under 26 USC section 7206(1)...