http://www.oyez.org/cases/2001/podcast-decisions U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Announcements, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en The Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1751/opinion Does Ohio's school voucher program violate the Establishment Clause? Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58905 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_309/opinion 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? Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58863 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_332/opinion Is the Student Activities Drug Testing Policy, which requires all students who participate in competitive extracurricular activities to submit to drug testing, consistent with the Fourth Amendment? Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58787 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_521/opinion 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? Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58791 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_518/opinion Did the Court of Appeals err in holding that the National Labor Relations Board may impose liability on an employer for filing a losing retaliatory lawsuit, even if the employer could show the suit was not objectively baseless? Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58901 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_10666/opinion 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? Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58789 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_488/opinion 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? Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58825 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_595/opinion 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? Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58783 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_419/opinion 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? Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58891 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_8452/opinion Is the execution of mentally retarded persons "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the Eighth Amendment? Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58835 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1021/opinion 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? Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58921 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_714/opinion 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? Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58809 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_394/opinion 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? Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58853 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_679/opinion May a student sue a private university for damages to enforce provisions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974? Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58805 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_682/opinion 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? Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58813 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1737/opinion 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? Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58915 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_631/opinion Must police officers, while searching buses at random to ask questions and to request passengers' consent to searches, advise passengers of their right not to cooperate? Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58895 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_301/opinion Does the word "pending," in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, cover the time between a lower state court's decision and the filing of a notice of appeal to a higher state court? If so, does it apply similarly to California's unique state collateral review system? Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58917 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_463/opinion Does the law, under which the Federal Insurance Contribution Act taxes are paid, authorize the IRS to assess a restaurant for FICA taxes based upon its aggregate estimate of all the tips that the restaurant's customers paid its employees? Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58911 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1187/opinion Does the Kansas Sexual Abuse Treatment Program violate inmates' Fifth Amendment privilege against compelled self-incrimination? Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58827 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1614/opinion May a plaintiff, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sue on employment discrimination claims that fall outside the statute's 300-day limit? May a plaintiff sue on claims that fall outside the period so long as the claims contribute to claims that took place within the period? Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58899 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_455/opinion Does the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987, which restricted the right of property owners to prepay at any time mortgages under the Housing Act of 1949, constitute a present breach of contract? Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58871 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_417/opinion Does a nonnamed member of a class certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(1) have the power to appeal the approval of a settlement over objections he stated at the fairness hearing? Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58795 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_651/opinion 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? Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58867 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1406/opinion 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? Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58847 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_147/opinion Is the alleged fraudulent conduct of a securities broker, who sells his customer's securities and using the proceeds for his own benefit without the customer's knowledge or consent, in connection with the purchase or sale of any security within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and SEC Rule 10b-5? Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58781 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_408/opinion 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? Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58861 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_46/opinion 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? Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58849 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_131/opinion Do lodestar fee awards for attorneys who successfully represent Social Security benefits claimants in court, under 42 USC section 406(b), displace contingent-fee agreements within the statutory ceiling? Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58873 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_400/opinion Does defense counsel render ineffective assistance during the sentencing phase of a murder trial by failing to present mitigating evidence and waiving final argument? Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58923 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1543/opinion Does a patentee, by narrowing a claim to obtain a patent, surrender all equivalents to the amended claim element? Tue, 08 Jan 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58889 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_878/opinion 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? Wed, 05 Dec 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58879 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1214/opinion 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? Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58797 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_687/opinion Does the omission from a federal indictment of a fact that enhances the statutory maximum sentence justify a Court of Appeals' vacating the enhanced sentence, even though the defendant did not object in the trial court? Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58833 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1531/opinion Do federal district courts have jurisdiction over a telecommunication carrier's claim that the order of a state utility commission requiring reciprocal compensation for telephone calls to Internet Service Providers violates the Telecommunications Act of 1996? Wed, 05 Dec 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58855 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_799/opinion May a city rely on a study it conducted to demonstrate whether an ordinance serves a substantial government interest? Tue, 04 Dec 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58913 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_298/opinion 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? Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58779 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_511/opinion Does the Telecommunications Act of 1996 authorize the Federal Communications Commission to require state utility commissions to set the rates charged by the incumbents for leased elements on a forward-looking basis untied to the incumbents' investment? Does the Act require incumbents to combine such elements at the entrants' request when they lease them to the entrants? Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58907 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1293/opinion Does the Child Online Protection Act's use of "community standards" to identify "material that is harmful to minors" violate the First Amendment? Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58839 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_344/opinion Do the prohibitions in the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 with regard to soliciting prescriptions for, and advertising, compounded drugs violate the First Amendment? Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58793 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1250/opinion 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? Tue, 04 Dec 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58829 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1167/opinion 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? Mon, 07 Jan 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58815 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1831/opinion Does a tenant by the entirety possess property or rights to property to which a federal lien may attach? Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58817 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_795/opinion 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? Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58881 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_584/opinion May disparate impact claims be brought under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967? Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58841 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_9285/opinion Must a defendant show that a conflict of interest adversely affected his representation in order to demonstrate a Sixth Amendment violation when the trial court fails to inquire into a potential conflict of interest about which it knew or reasonably should have known? Mon, 05 Nov 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58877 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1595/opinion 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? Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58893 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1937/opinion Does the term "inability," in the Social Security Act, include a 12 month requirement, such that the inability must last, or must be expected to last, for at least 12 months? Is the term "expected to last" applicable only when the "inability" has not yet lasted 12 months? Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58875 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1770/opinion 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? Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58837 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1072/opinion Is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's regulation, which permits the verification of a timely filed discrimination charge after the limitations period, valid? Tue, 08 Jan 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58799 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_6029/opinion Does Labor Department regulation 29 CFR section 825.700(a) require employers to grant an employee additional leave after granting more than 12 weeks of leave, if the employer failed to notify the employee that the original leave counted against the employee's Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 entitlement? Mon, 07 Jan 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58801 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1567/opinion Is the Bankruptcy Code's "three-year lookback period," under which a discharge does not extinguish certain tax liabilities for which a return was due within three years before the filing of an individual debtor's petition, tolled during the pendency of a prior bankruptcy petition? Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58803 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_568/opinion 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? Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58769 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_973/opinion 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? Tue, 06 Nov 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58919 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1514/opinion Does the federal supplemental jurisdiction statute's tolling provision apply to claims filed in federal court against nonconsenting States? Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58811 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1853/opinion Must a complaint in an employment discrimination lawsuit contain specific facts establishing a prima facie case of discrimination? Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58851 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_853/opinion 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? Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:00:00 +0000 58887 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_952/opinion 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? Mon, 03 Dec 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58821 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1307/opinion Does the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992 permit the Commissioner of Social Security to assign retired miners to the successors in interest of out-of-business signatory operators? Wed, 07 Nov 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58903 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1073/opinion Does the practice of peer grading violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974? Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58869 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_957/opinion Did the Kansas Supreme Court interpret Kansas v. Hendricks in an overly restrictive manner by ruling that it requires a finding that a sexual offender, who has only an emotional or personality disorder, rather than a volitional impairment, has an inability to control dangerous behavior? Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58831 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_6933/opinion Is a defendant's imperfect compliance with Missouri court rules an adequate state ground to preclude the federal habeas corpus review of his claim that a Missouri trial judge's refusal to grant an overnight continuance violated due process? Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58897 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_832/opinion 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? Tue, 02 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58883 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1249/opinion Must a municipal park ordinance requiring individuals to obtain a permit before conducting large-scale events must, consistent with the First Amendment, contain certain procedural safeguards? Mon, 03 Dec 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58777 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1519/opinion Did a border agent have reasonable suspicion to believe that Ralph Arvizu was engaged in illegal activity based on a number of factors? Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58865 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_99_1823/opinion 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? Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58845 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_927/opinion Does the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have jurisdiction under the Occupational Safety and Health Act to issue citations to uninspected vessels, which are subject to minimal Coast Guard regulation? Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58771 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_9280/opinion 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? Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58807 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_6567/opinion Does the FBI's notice of intended forfeiture by sending certified letters to inmates while incarcerated satisfy due process? Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58785 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1089/opinion Did the Court of Appeals use the proper standard in determining whether an employee was disabled under the ADA due to carpel tunnel syndrome by showing that her manual disability involved a class of manual activities affecting the ability to perform tasks at work? Wed, 07 Nov 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58885 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_99_1786/opinion Does the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 authorize a suit to enforce a reimbursement provision by a health plan to recover from a beneficiary any proceeds paid by a third party? Mon, 01 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58843 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1260/opinion Does a search pursuant to a common California probation condition, supported by reasonable suspicion, satisfy the Fourth Amendment? Tue, 06 Nov 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58773 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_99_1996/opinion May utility patents be issued for plants under 35 USC section 101? Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58909 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_730/opinion 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? Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58823 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_860/opinion Should the implied private action for damages against federal officers alleged to have violated a citizen's constitutional rights, first recognized in Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388, be extended to allow recovery against a private corporation operating a halfway house under contract with the Bureau of Prisons? Mon, 01 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58859 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_507/opinion 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? Tue, 02 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58775 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1045/opinion Does the Fair Credit Reporting Act's two-year statute of limitations governing actions to enforce any liability created by the act commence to run only upon a party's discovery of alleged violations of the act? Tue, 09 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58857 at http://www.oyez.org http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_758/opinion Must the Merit Systems Protection Board adopt the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruling that, when assessing a penalty's reasonableness, the Board may not consider prior disciplinary actions that are pending in collectively bargained grievance proceedings? Tue, 09 Oct 2001 13:00:00 +0000 58819 at http://www.oyez.org