Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Civil Procedure : From 10/01/02 To 07/01/03
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law |
| Title: | BENEFICIAL NAT'L BANK v. ANDERSON |
| Date: | 06/02/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-306 |
| Summary: | An action filed in state court, to recover damages from a national bank for allegedly charging excessive interest in violation of both the "common law usury doctrine" and an Alabama usury statute, arose only under federal law and could therefore be removed under 28 U.S.C. section 1441. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Government Contracts |
| Title: | NAT'L PARK HOSPITALITY ASS'N v. DEP'T OF THE INTERIOR |
| Date: | 05/27/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-196 |
| Summary: | A National Park Service regulation, purporting to render the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 inapplicable to contracts entered into by concessioners doing business in national parks, is a general policy statement. A challenge to that regulation is not yet ripe for judicial resolution, for lack of a "hardship" showing. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | BREUER v. JIM'S CONCRETE OF BREVARD, INC. |
| Date: | 05/19/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-337 |
| Summary: | A Fair Labor Standards Act provision stating that suit "may be maintained. . .in any Federal or State court of competent jurisdiction," 29 U.S.C. section 216(b), does not bar removal of a suit from state to federal court. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Judges And The Judiciary |
| Title: | ROELL v. WITHROW |
| Date: | 04/29/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-69 |
| Summary: | Under the expanded power of magistrate judges authorized by the Federal Magistrate Act of 1979, consent to a magistrate judge's designation can be inferred from a party's conduct during litigation, such as through a general appearance before a magistrate after having been told of the right to appear before a district judge. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Tax Law |
| Title: | FRANCHISE TAX BD. OF CALIFORNIA v. HYATT |
| Date: | 04/23/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-42 |
| Summary: | The Full Faith and Credit Clause (U.S. Const. Art. IV, section 1) does not require Nevada to give full faith and credit to California's statutes providing its tax collection agency with immunity from suit. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Food & Beverages, International Law, Securities Law |
| Title: | DOLE FOOD CO. v. PATRICKSON |
| Date: | 04/22/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-593 |
| Summary: | A corporation is an instrumentality of a foreign state under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 only if the foreign state itself owns a majority of the corporation's shares. Instrumentality status is determined at the time of the filing of a complaint. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law |
| Title: | JINKS v. RICHLAND COUNTY |
| Date: | 04/22/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-258 |
| Summary: | 28 U.S.C. section 1367(d), requiring that a state statute of limitations be tolled for the period during which a cause of action had previously been pending in federal court, does not exceed Congress's enumerated powers and is constitutional as applied to claims brought against a state's political subdivisions. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury And Tort Law |
| Title: | ARCHER v. WARNER |
| Date: | 03/31/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1418 |
| Summary: | A debt for money promised in a settlement agreement accompanied by the release of underlying tort claims can amount to a debt for money obtained by fraud, within the terms of the Bankruptcy Code's non-dischargeability statute, 11 U.S.C. section 523(a)(2)(A). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Health Law |
| Title: | COOK COUNTY v. US EX REL CHANDLER |
| Date: | 03/10/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1572 |
| Summary: | Local governments are "persons" amenable to qui tam actions under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. section 3729. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | US v. WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE |
| Date: | 03/04/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1067 |
| Summary: | The Court of Federal Claims had Indian Tucker Act jurisdiction over a tribe's suit against the U.S. for breach of fiduciary duty to manage land and improvements held in trust for the tribe, but occupied by the government. |