Stok & Associates, P.A. v. Citibank, N.A.

A case the Court dismissed, which would have considered whether under the Federal Arbitration Act, a party is required to demonstrate prejudice after...

Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan

A case in which the Court held that the Nevada law requiring elected officials to disqualify themselves when they are asked to vote on matters that pr...

Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc.

A case in which the Court held that a Vermont statute banning the sale, transmission or use of prescription drug user data violated protected speech o...

Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co.

A case in which the Court held that securities fraud plaintiffs need not prove loss causation in order to obtain class certification.

McNeill v. United States

A case in which the Court held that a federal sentencing court must determine whether an offense under state law is a "serious drug offense" within th...

United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation

A case in which the Court held that the fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege does not apply to the general trust relationship between...

American Electric Power Co., Inc. v. Connecticut

A case in which the Court that held the Clean Air Act bars suits by governmental bodies and private parties seeking to curb emissions from utilities v...

Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership

A case in which the Court held that a challenge to a patent's validity must offer clear and convincing evidence.

Tapia v. United States

A case in which the Court held that a district court may not give a defendant a longer prison sentence based on speculation about if and when the defe...

PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing

A case in which the Court held that generic drug makers cannot be sued for not warning about potentially dangerous side effects on their drug labels,...

Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co.

A case in which the Court held that federal law requires local telephone companies to allow new competitors in their markets to link to their existing...

Fowler v. United States

A case in which the Court held that in order to prove a criminal violation of the federal witness tampering statute when a defendant allegedly kills a...

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes

A case in which the Court held that the small group who initiated a lawsuit could not represent all of Wal-Mart's female employees, and therefore coul...

Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett

A case in which the Court held that the Arizona campaign finance law linking public financing for candidates to the amount spent by their opponents vi...

CSX Transportation v. McBride

J.D.B. v. North Carolina

A case in which the Court ruled that courts should consider the age of a juvenile suspect in deciding whether he or she is in custody for Miranda purp...

Turner v. Rogers

A case in which the Court held that a defendant facing incarceration for civil contempt does not have a constitutional right to a court-appointed atto...

Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri

A case in which the Court held that state and local government employees may not sue their employers for retaliation under the First Amendment's Petit...

Fox v. Vice

A case in which the Court held that a court may award attorney's fees to civil rights defendants when the plaintiff's suit involves frivolous and non-...

Davis v. United States

A case in which the Court held that the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies to a search that was authorized by precedent at the time...

Tolentino v. New York

A case the Court dismissed, which would have considered whether an individual's motor vehicle records may be used as evidence if the police consulted...

Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd

A case in which the Court held that former Attorney General John Ashcroft was entitled to qualified immunity.

Bullcoming v. New Mexico

A case in which the Court held that a blood-alcohol test admitted without the actual testimony of the person who prepared the results violates a crimi...

Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States ex rel. Kirk

A case in which the Court held that a whistleblower may not use information obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests to allege violations...

Camreta v. Greene

A case which the Court vacated in part and remanded in favor of the defendant without addressing the Fourth Amendment question at issue.

Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.

A case in which the Court held that patents on inventions that arise from federally-funded research do not automatically go to university where the in...

DePierre v. United States

A case in which the Court held that the term "cocaine base" encompasses every form of cocaine that is classified chemically as a base.

Freeman v. United States

A case in which the Court held that a federal judge has the authority to reduce a criminal sentence after the U.S. Sentencing Commission amended the S...

Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A.

A case in which the Court ruled that induced infringement under the patent clause requires knowledge that the induced acts constitute patent infringem...

Bond v. United States

A case in which the Court held that a defendant, convicted under a federal statute, has a right to challenge his/her conviction based on the unconstit...

United States v. Tinklenberg

A case in which the Court held that the time between the filing of a pretrial motion and its disposition is excluded from the deadline for commencing...

Astra USA v. Santa Clara County

A case in which the Court held that health care providers cannot sue drug makers for overcharging public hospitals for prescription drugs.

FCC v. AT&T Inc.

A case in which the Court held that corporations do not have a right of personal privacy that would prevent the disclosure of public records handed ov...

Smith v. Bayer Corp.

A case in which the Court held that the federal court exceeded its authority under the relitigation exception to the Anti-Injunction Act when it preve...

Stern v. Marshall

A case in which the Court held that the Bankruptcy Court did not have the constitutional authority to enter judgement on the petitioner's counterclaim...

General Dynamics Corp. v. United States

A case in which the Court held that neither the government nor the contractor could pursue litigation because of the risk that state secrets might be...

Kentucky v. King

A case in which the Court held the exclusionary rule, which forbids the use of illegally seized evidence except in emergency situations, applies when...

Sykes v. United States

A case in which the Court held that a conviction for resisting arrest counts as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act.

Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown

A case in which the Court held that a consumer cannot sue a manufacturer in a U.S. court when the manufacturer's only connection with the U.S. is that...

J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro

A case in which the Court held that a consumer cannot sue a foreign manufacturer in state court over a product that the foreign company marketed and s...