The Oyez Project: 2001 Term Decisions

Adams v. Florida Power Corp. (No. 01-584) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 01 Apr 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Mineta (No. 00-730) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:00:00 -0500

Does the First Amendment permit the Minnesota Supreme Court to prohibit candidates for judicial election in that State from announcing their views on disputed legal and political issues?

Alabama v. Shelton (No. 00-1214) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 20 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Did a border agent have reasonable suspicion to believe that Ralph Arvizu was engaged in illegal activity based on a number of factors?

Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union (No. 00-1293) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 13 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, as amended, allow local public housing agencies to evict tenants for drug-related activity of non-tenant relatives or guests regardless of whether tenants knew, or should have known, about the activity?

Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (No. 00-795) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Is a corporation organized under the laws of the British Virgin Islands a "citizen or subject of a foreign state" for the purposes of alienage diversity jurisdiction?

Atkins v. Virginia (No. 00-8452) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does an agreement between an employer and an employee to arbitrate employment-related disputes bar the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from pursuing victim-specific judicial relief in an enforcement action alleging that the employer has violated Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990?

Barnes v. Gorman (No. 01-682) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Barnhart v. Sigmon Coal Co. (No. 00-1307) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Must a complaint in an employment discrimination lawsuit contain specific facts establishing a prima facie case of discrimination?

Barnhart v. Walton (No. 00-1937) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Court of Appeals holding of qualified immunity where prison guards' conduct violated the Eighth Amendment comport with United States v. Lanier, 520 U.S. 259?

BE & K Construction Co. v. NLRB (No. 01-518) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Bell v. Cone (No. 01-400) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 28 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Board of Education v. Earls (No. 01-332) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Carey v. Saffold (No. 01-301) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Chao v. Mallard Bay Drilling, Inc. (No. 00-927) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 09 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Echazabal (No. 00-1406) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Indian Regulatory Gaming Act exempt tribes from paying the gambling-related taxes, which State need not pay, imposed by chapter 35 of the Internal Revenue Code?

Chickasaw Nation v. United States (No. 00-507) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:00:00 -0500

Did the Court of Appeals err in interpreting Arizona law concerning its postconviction-relief rule?

Christopher v. Harbury (No. 01-394) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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City of Columbus v. Ours Garage and Wrecker Service (No. 01-419) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, Inc. (No. 00-799) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 13 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

May punitive damages be awarded in a private cause of action brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?

Correctional Services Corp. v. Malesko (No. 00-860) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:00:00 -0500

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Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Rucker (No. 00-1770) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does a criminal defendant who lets a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 11 error pass without objection in the trial court bear the burden of showing plain error under Rule 52? May a court reviewing Rule 11 error examine the entire record begun at the defendant's first appearance in the matter leading to his eventual plea when considering the effect of any error on the defendant's substantial rights?

Devlin v. Scardelletti (No. 01-417) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Dusenbery v. United States (No. 00-6567) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does a State's sovereign immunity preclude the Federal Maritime Commission from adjudicating a private party's complaint that a state-run port has violated the Shipping Act of 1984?

Edelman v. Lynchburg College (No. 00-1072) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does a moratorium on development imposed during the process of devising a comprehensive land-use plan constitutes a per se taking of property requiring compensation under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause?

EEOC v. Waffle House (No. 99-1823) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Federal Maritime Commission v. South Carolina Ports Authority (No. 01-46) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 28 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co. (No. 00-1543) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 28 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 abridge freedom of speech where it where it proscribes a significant universe of speech that is neither obscene under Miller v. California nor child pornography under New York v. Ferber?

Franconia Associates v. United States (No. 01-455) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Gisbrecht v. Barnhart (No. 01-131) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 28 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Gonzaga University v. Doe (No. 01-679) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Great-West Life and Annuity Ins. v. Knudson (No. 99-1786) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Harris v. United States (No. 00-10666) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the practice of peer grading violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974?

Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB (No. 00-1595) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 require that all prisoners seeking redress for prison circumstances or occurrences exhaust any applicable administrative remedies before filing suit?

Holmes Group, Inc. v. Vornado Air Circulation System (No. 01-408) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Hope v. Pelzer (No. 01-309) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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J.E.M. Supply v. Pioneer Hi-Bred International (No. 99-1996) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:00:00 -0500

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JPMorgan Chase Bank v. Traffic Stream (BVI) Infrastructure Ltd. (No. 01-651) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Kansas v. Crane (No. 00-957) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Kelly v. South Carolina (No. 00-9280) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 09 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Lapides v. Board of Regents of University System of Georgia (No. 01-298) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 13 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Lee v. Kemna (No. 00-6933) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does Arizona's capital sentencing scheme violate the Sixth Amendment's jury trial guarantee by entrusting to a judge the finding of facts sufficient to impose the death penalty?

Mathias v. WorldCom Technologies, Inc. (No. 00-878) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 20 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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McKune v. Lile (No. 00-1187) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 permit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's regulation that allows the defense that a worker's disability on the job would pose a direct threat to his health?

Mickens v. Taylor (No. 00-9285) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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National Cable and Telecom. Assoc. v. Gulf Power (No. 00-832) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Census Bureau's use of "hot-deck imputation," in the 2000 census, violate the statutory provision forbidding use of the statistical method known as sampling? Is this methodology inconsistent with the Constitution's statement that an "actual Enumeration be made?

National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan (No. 00-1614) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Is a state commission's action relating to the enforcement of an interconnection agreement under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 reviewable in federal court? Does a state commission waive its Eleventh Amendment immunity by voluntarily participating in the regulatory scheme established by the Act? Does the doctrine of Ex parte Young permit suit for relief against state public utility commissioners in their official capacities for alleged ongoing violations of the Act?

New York v. FERC (No. 00-568) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 04 Mar 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have appellate jurisdiction over a case in which the complaint does not allege a claim arising under federal patent law, but the answer contains a patent-law counterclaim?

Owasso Independent School Dist. No. I011 v. Falvo (No. 00-1073) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Sixth Amendment right to appointed counsel, as defined in Argersinger v. Hamlin, 407 U.S. 25, and Scott v. Illinois, 440 U.S. 367, apply to a defendant who was sentenced to a suspended sentence?

Porter v. Nussle (No. 00-853) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Ragsdale v. Wolverine World Wide (No. 00-6029) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:00:00 -0500

May the state power reserved in 49 USC section 14501(c)(2)(A) be delegated to municipalities, permitting them to exercise safety regulatory authority over local tow-truck operations?

Raygor v. Regents of the University of Minnesota (No. 00-1514) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:00:00 -0500

May the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission require a public utility to transmit competitors' electricity over its lines on the same terms that the utility applies to its own energy transmissions, if the utility unbundles, or separates, the cost of transmission from the cost of electrical energy when billing its retail customers? Must FERC impose that requirement on utilities that continue to offer only bundled retail sales?

Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (No. 01-521) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Ring v. Arizona (No. 01-488) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Rush Prudential HMO, Inc. v. Moran (No. 00-1021) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Is the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Act, as applied to health benefits provided by a health maintenance organization under contract with an employee welfare benefit plan, preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974?

SEC v. Zandford (No. 01-147) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A. (No. 00-1853) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does a State's act of removing a lawsuit from state court to federal court waive the State's Eleventh Amendment immunity from suit in federal court by citizens of other States?

Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (No. 00-1167) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Child Online Protection Act's use of "community standards" to identify "material that is harmful to minors" violate the First Amendment?

Thomas v. Chicago Park District (No. 00-1249) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does a patentee, by narrowing a claim to obtain a patent, surrender all equivalents to the amended claim element?

Thompson v. Western States Medical Center (No. 01-344) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Toyota Motor Mfg v. Williams (No. 00-1089) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 require an employer to reassign a disabled employee to a position as a reasonable accommodation even though another employee is entitled to hold the position under the employer's seniority system?

TRW v. Andrews (No. 00-1045) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:00:00 -0500

Is McMillan v. Pennsylvania, 477 U.S. 79, valid after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466?

United States v. Arvizu (No. 00-1519) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the FBI's notice of intended forfeiture by sending certified letters to inmates while incarcerated satisfy due process?

United States v. Cotton (No. 01-687) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 20 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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United States v. Craft (No. 00-1831) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Did the Court of Appeals err by failing to perform an analysis of whether Mills v. Maryland, 486 U.S. 367, applied retroactively to cases on federal habeas corpus review under Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288?

United States v. Drayton (No. 01-631) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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United States v. Fior D'Italia, Inc. (No. 01-463) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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United States v. Knights (No. 00-1260) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:00:00 -0500

Does a municipal ordinance that requires a permit prior to engaging in the door-to-door advocacy of a political cause and to display upon demand the permit, which contains one's name, violate the First Amendment protection accorded to anonymous pamphleteering or discourse?

United States v. Ruiz (No. 01-595) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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United States v. Vonn (No. 00-973) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 04 Mar 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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US Airways v. Barnett (No. 00-1250) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the National Labor Relations Board have the discretion to award backpay to an undocumented alien employee who was not legally authorized to work in the United States?

USPS v. Gregory (No. 00-758) - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:00:00 -0500

Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require federal prosecutors, before entering into a binding plea agreement with a criminal defendant, to disclose impeachment information relating to any informants or other witnesses?

Utah v. Evans (No. 01-714) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Verizon Communications v. FCC (No. 00-511) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 13 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the charge that an official deception denied a plaintiff access to the courts by leaving her without information or reason to seek information, with which she could have brought a lawsuit, state an actionable claim?

Verizon Maryland Inc. v. Public Service Commission of Maryland (No. 00-1531) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 20 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Did the Court of Appeals misapply the strict scrutiny standard in determining if Congress had a compelling interest to enact legislation designed to remedy the effects of racial discrimination? Is the U.S. Department of Transportation's current Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program narrowly tailored to serve a compelling governmental interest?

Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York v. Village of Stratton (No. 00-1737) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Did the state trial court err in holding Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 inapposite in the death sentence proceeding of William Kelly?

Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services v. Blumer (No. 00-952) - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:00:00 -0500

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Young v. United States (No. 00-1567) - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 04 Mar 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Pole Attachments Act cover attachments that provide both cable television and high-speed Internet service? Does the Act cover attachments by wireless telecommunications providers?

Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (No. 00-1751) - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Is the income-first method of determining whether a community spouse is entitled to a higher community spouse resource allowance consistent with the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988?