Supreme Court - Sliplists, 545 U. S., Part 1

545 U. S., Part 1

Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U. S. 1 (2005)

R054; No. 03-1454; 6/6/05. Congress' Commerce Clause power includes the power to prohibit the local cultivation and use of marijuana in compliance with California's Compassionate Use Act, which authorizes the limited use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Alaska v. United States,, 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R055; No. 128 Orig; 6/6/05. The Court overrules Alaska's exceptions to the Special Masters recommendations that the United States, not Alaska, has title to pockets and enclaves of submerged lands underlying waters in the Alexander Archipelago and title to submerged lands underlying the waters of Glacier Bay.

Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd., 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R056; No. 03-1388; 6/6/05. The Fifth Circuit's decision holding Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 inapplicable to foreign-flag cruise ships in U. S. waters is reversed, and the case is remanded.

Johnson v. California, 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R057; No. 04-6964; 6/13/05. California's "more likely than not" standard is an inappropriate yardstick by which to measure the sufficiency of a prima facie case of purposeful discrimination in jury selection under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U. S. 79

Bradshaw v. Stumpf, 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R058; No. 04-637; 6/13/05. The Sixth Circuit erred in granting respondent habeas relief on the grounds that his guilty plea was not knowing, voluntary, and intelligent and that it was void because the State, in a later trial of respondent's accomplice, pursued a theory of the case inconsistent with the one advanced in respondent's case; but the case is remanded for that court to resolve in the first instance the merits of the inconsistency claim as it relates to respondent's death sentence.

Merck KGaA v. Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd., 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R059; No. 03-1237; 6/13/05. Title 35 U. S. C. §271(e)(1) exempts from patent infringement the use of a patented compound in preclinical studies at least as long as there is a reasonable basis to believe that the compound tested could be the subject of a Food and Drug Administration submission and the experiments will produce the types of information relevant to an investigational new drug application or a new drug application made to the FDA.

Wilkinson v. Austin, 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R060; No. 04-495; 6/13/05. The procedures by which Ohio classifies prisoners for placement at its "Supermax" prison provide inmates with sufficient protection to comply with the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause.

Miller-El v. Dretke, 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R061; No. 03-9659; 6/13/05. Petitioner is entitled to prevail on his claim that prosecutors' peremptory strikes of potential jurors in his capital murder trial were based on race in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, see Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U. S. 79, and is thus entitled to federal habeas relief.

Grable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. v. Darue Engineering & Mfg., 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R062; No. 04-603; 6/13/05. The national interest in providing a federal forum for federal tax litigation is sufficiently substantial to support the exercise of federal-question jurisdiction over petitioner's state quiet title action on removal to federal court.

San Remo Hotel, L. P. v. City and County of San Francisco, 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R063; No. 04-340; 6/20/05. This Court will not create an exception to the full faith and credit statute, 28 U. S. C. §1738, in order to provide a federal forum for litigants seeking to advance Fifth Amendment takings claims.

Dodd v. United States, 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R064; No. 04-5286; 6/20/05. Title 28 U. S. C. §2255, 6(3)'s 1-year limitation period begins to run on the date on which this Court "initially recognized" the right asserted in an applicant's motion for habeas relief, not the date on which that right was made retroactive.

Rompilla v. Beard, 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R065; No. 04-5462; 6/20/05. Even when a capital defendant and his family members have suggested that no mitigating evidence is available, his lawyer is bound to make reasonable efforts to obtain and review material that counsel knows the prosecution will probably rely on as evidence of aggravation at the trial's sentencing phase.

Graham County Soil & Water Conservation Dist. v. United States ex rel. Wilson, 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R066; No. 04-169; 6/20/05. Because the False Claims Act's statute of limitations, 31 U. S. C. §3731(b)(1), does not govern §3730(h) retaliation actions, the most closely analogous state statute of limitations applies.

American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. Michigan Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R067; No. 03-1230; 6/20/05. Michigan's flat annual fee on trucks engaged in intrastate commercial hauling does not violate the dormant Commerce Clause.

Mid-Con Freight Systems, Inc. v. Michigan Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 545 U. S. ___ (2005)

R068; No. 03-1234; 6/20/05. Title 49 U. S. C. §14504 does not pre-empt an annual $100 fee Michigan imposes on each Michigan license-plated truck operating entirely in interstate commerce.

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