Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Civil Procedure : From 10/01/05 To 07/01/06
Number of summaries found: 23
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| 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: | Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Securities Law |
| Title: | Kircher v. Putnam Funds Trust |
| Date: | 06/15/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–409 |
| Summary: | The Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 does not exempt remand orders from 28 U.S.C. section 1447(d) and its general rule of non-appealability. |
| 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: | Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Evidence, Government Law, Tax Law |
| Title: | Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp. |
| Date: | 06/05/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–433 |
| Summary: | A judgment reversing dismissal of respondent's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) claims against a competing company is reversed in part where a 18 U.S.C. section 1962(c) claim did not satisfy the requirement of proximate causation with regards to a claim that respondent lost sales due to petitioners' decreased prices, which allegedly resulted from their tax fraud. |
| 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: | Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Manufacturing, Tax Law |
| Title: | DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno |
| Date: | 05/15/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1704 |
| Summary: | In a suit brought by taxpayers alleging that their local and state tax burdens were increased by certain taxbreaks for a car manufacturer, a judgment finding that a state tax credit violated the Commerce Clause is vacated where plaintiffs had no standing to challenge the state franchise tax credit. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies |
| Title: | eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C. |
| Date: | 05/15/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–130 |
| Summary: | The traditional four-factor test applied by courts of equity when considering whether to award permanent injunctive relief to a prevailing plaintiff applies to disputes arising under the Patent Act. A judgment reversing the denial of a motion for permanent injunctive relief in a patent infringement case against eBay is vacated where neither court below correctly applied the traditional four-factor framework that governs an award of injunctive relief. |
| 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. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Injury And Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates |
| Title: | Marshall v. Marshall |
| Date: | 05/01/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1544 |
| Summary: | A determination by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that the probate exception applied so as to bar petitioner-Anna Nicole Smith's tortious interference claim is reversed where the Ninth Circuit had no warrant from Congress, or from decisions of the Supreme Court, for its sweeping extension of the probate exception. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law |
| Title: | Jones v. Flowers |
| Date: | 04/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1477 |
| Summary: | For purposes of due process, when mailed notice of a tax sale is returned unclaimed, a state must take additional reasonable steps to attempt to provide notice to the property owner before selling his/her property, if it is practicable to do so. |