Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Administrative Law : From 10/01/06 To 07/01/07
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | Wilkie v. Robbins |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-219 |
| Summary: | In an action brought by the owner and operator of a commercial guest resort against officials of the Bureau of Land Management alleging harassment and intimidation aimed at extracting an easement across plaintiff's private property, denial of qualified immunity for defendants is reversed where the landowner has neither: 1) a private action for damages of the sort recognized in Bivens; nor 2) a claim against the officials in their individual capacities under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Water Law |
| Title: | Nat'l Ass'n of Homebuilders v. Defenders of Wildlife |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-340, 06–549 |
| Summary: | Section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act does not effectively operate as a tenth criterion on which the EPA's transfer of certain permitting powers to state authorities under section 402(b) of the Clean Water Act must be conditioned. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Sports Law |
| Title: | Tennessee Secondary Sch. Athletic Ass'n v. Brentwood Academy. |
| Date: | 06/21/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-427 |
| Summary: | The enforcement of a rule prohibiting high school coaches from recruiting middle school athletes does not violate the First Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | Long Island Care at Home, Ltd. v. Coke |
| Date: | 06/11/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-593 |
| Summary: | In the context of the Fair Labor Standards Act's statutory exemption of certain "companionship" workers from the statute's minimum wage and maximum hours rules, a Department of Labor regulation that interprets such exemption to include "companionship" workers "employed by an ... agency other than the family or household using their services" is valid and binding. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Education Law, Health Law |
| Title: | Winkelman v. Parma City Sch. Dist. |
| Date: | 05/21/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-983 |
| Summary: | The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) grants parents independent, enforceable rights, which are not limited to procedural and reimbursement-related matters, but encompass the entitlement to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) for their child. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Banking Law, Tax Law |
| Title: | EC Term of Years Trust v. US |
| Date: | 04/30/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1541 |
| Summary: | In a refund action brought by a trust under 28 U.S.C. section 1346(a)(1), arising from allegedly wrongful levies by the IRS on a bank account in which the trust had deposited funds, dismissal of the action is affirmed where the trust: 1) missed 26 U.S.C. section 7426(a)(1)'s deadline for challenging a levy; and 2) may not bring the challenge as a tax refund claim under section 1346(a)(1). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law |
| Title: | Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc. |
| Date: | 04/17/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-705 |
| Summary: | In the context of rules that require long-distance and other communications carriers to compensate a payphone operator when a caller uses a payphone to obtain free access to the carrier's lines, the FCC's application of 47 U.S.C. section 201(b) to a long distance carrier's refusal to pay compensation is a reasonable interpretation of the statute, and is, thus, lawful. 47 U.S.C. section 207 authorizes a payphone operator to bring a federal-court lawsuit against a recalcitrant carrier that refuses to pay the compensation ordered by the FCC. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Education Law, Government Law |
| Title: | Zuni Pub. Sch. Dist. v. Dep't of Educ. |
| Date: | 04/17/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1508 |
| Summary: | The federal Impact Aid Act sets forth a method that the Secretary of Education is to use when determining whether a state's public school funding program "equalizes expenditures" throughout the state, for purposes of allowing offsets of federal impact aid to individual school districts. In a dispute over the proper equalization formula, lower courts' rejection of school districts' challenges to the Secretary of Education's applicable regulations is affirmed as certain statutory language in the Act permits the Secretary to identify the school districts that should be "disregard[ed]" by looking to the number of the district's pupils, as well as to the size of the district's expenditures per pupil. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Transportation |
| Title: | Massachusetts v. Envtl. Prot. Agency |
| Date: | 04/02/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1120 |
| Summary: | In an action brought by states, groups, and organizations alleging the EPA abdicated its responsibility under the Clean Air Act to regulate certain greenhouse gas emissions, a judgment finding that the EPA properly denied a petition for rule making is reversed where: 1) petitioners had standing to challenge the EPA's ruling; 2) the denial of a petition for rulemaking is reviewed to determine whether it was "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law;" 3) the EPA has the statutory authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles; and 4) the EPA rejected the rulemaking petition on impermissible grounds, and on remand the EPA must ground its reasons for action or inaction in the statute. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Environmental Law |
| Title: | Envtl. Defense v. Duke Energy Corp. |
| Date: | 04/02/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-848 |
| Summary: | In an enforcement action involving two air pollution control schemes to the Clean Air Act, summary judgment for respondent, coal-based power plant operator, is vacated as: 1) the Court of Appeals's reading of the 1980 Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) regulations, intended to align them with New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), was inconsistent with their terms and effectively invalidated them; and 2) any such result must be shown to comport with the Clean Air Act's restrictions on judicial review of EPA regulations for validity. |