Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Administrative Law : From 10/01/05 To 07/01/06
Number of summaries found: 14
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Media Law |
| Title: | Beard v. Banks |
| Date: | 06/28/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1739 |
| Summary: | A circuit court judgment holding that a prison policy, forbidding certain inmates any access to newspapers, magazines, and photographs violated the First Amendment, could not be supported as a matter of law is reversed and the case is remanded. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law |
| Title: | Arlington Cent. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Murphy |
| Date: | 06/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–18 |
| Summary: | An Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provision that permits a court to "award reasonable attorneys' fees as part of the costs" to prevailing parents, does not authorize prevailing parents to recover expert fees. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Immigration Law |
| Title: | Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales |
| Date: | 06/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1376 |
| Summary: | In the context of reinstatement of orders of removal on illegal entrants, Immigration and Nationality Act section 241(a)(5) applies to those who reentered the U.S. before the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act's (IIRIRA) effective date and does not retroactively affect any right of, or impose any burden on, the violator of the INA before the Court. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | Woodford v. Ngo |
| Date: | 06/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–416 |
| Summary: | The Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) exhaustion requirement requires proper exhaustion of administrative remedies. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Construction, Criminal Law & Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | Rapanos v. US |
| Date: | 06/19/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1034 |
| Summary: | In cases involving certain state wetlands lying near ditches or man-made drains that eventually empty into traditional navigable waters, judgments against petitioners-landowners are vacated and remanded for further proceedings as to whether the specific wetlands at issue possessed a significant nexus with navigable waters for purposes of regulation under the Clean Water Act (CWA). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Government Law, Injury And Tort Law, Insurance Law |
| Title: | Empire Healthchoice Assurance, Inc. v. McVeigh |
| Date: | 06/15/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–200 |
| Summary: | Dismissal, for want of subject-matter jurisdiction, of petitioner-carrier's suit seeking recovery from the proceeds of state-court litigation for a beneficiary's medical care is affirmed since 28 U.S.C. section 1331, authorizing jurisdiction over "civil actions arising under the...laws...of the United States," did not encompass the carrier's action. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Aerospace & Defense, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Whitman v. Dep't of Transp. |
| Date: | 06/05/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1131 |
| Summary: | A judgment holding that there was no jurisdiction to consider claims brought by an employee alleging that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) tested him for drug and alcohol in a nonrandom manner in violation of his constitutional rights and the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) is vacated and remanded for further consideration of issues of jurisdiction and preclusion. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | Garcetti v. Ceballos |
| Date: | 05/30/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–473 |
| Summary: | When public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, they are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the Constitution does not insulate their communications from employer discipline. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Water Law |
| Title: | S.D. Warren Co. v. Maine Bd. of Envtl. Prot. |
| Date: | 05/15/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1527 |
| Summary: | Operating a dam to produce hydroelectricity raises a potential for a discharge into the navigable waters of the United States. Thus, hydroelectric dams require state certification that water protection laws will not be violated for purposes of federal licensing under section 401 of the Clean Water Act. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Injury And Tort Law |
| Title: | Arkansas Dep't of Health & Human Servs. v. Ahlborn |
| Date: | 05/01/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1506 |
| Summary: | Federal Medicaid law does not authorize a state's department of health services to assert a lien on a settlement in an amount exceeding the portion of the tort claimant's settlement constituting reimbursement for medical payments made, and a federal anti-lien provision affirmatively prohibits it from doing so. State third-party liability provisions are unenforceable insofar as they compel a different conclusion. |