UNITED STATES v. SANCHEZ-GOMEZ ET AL.(2018)
No. 17-312 Argued: March 26, 2018Decided: May 14, 2018 The judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California adopted a districtwide policy permitting the…
No. 17-312 Argued: March 26, 2018Decided: May 14, 2018 The judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California adopted a districtwide policy permitting the…
No. 17-387 Argued: March 21, 2018Decided: May 21, 2018 The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe purchased a roughly 40-acre plot of land and then commissioned a boundary survey. The survey…
No. 16-534 Argued: December 4, 2017Decided: February 21, 2018 The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA) grants foreign states and their agencies and instrumentalities immunity from suit in…
No. 17-1676 Argued: Decided: November 19, 2018 The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. JUSTICE GORSUCH, with whom JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR joins, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. More and more,…
No. 16-712 Argued: November 27, 2017Decided: April 24, 2018 Inter partes review authorizes the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to reconsider and cancel an already-issued patent claim…
No. 17-269 Argued: Decided: June 11, 2018 PER CURIAM. The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court. JUSTICE KENNEDY took no part in the decision of this case.
No. 16-1011 Argued: April 16, 2018Decided: June 22, 2018 Petitioner WesternGeco LLC owns patents for a system used to survey the ocean floor. Respondent ION Geophysical Corp. began selling…
No. 16-1067 Argued: December 6, 2017Decided: February 21, 2018 Petitioner Charles Murphy was awarded a judgment in his federal civil rights suit against two of his prison guards, including…
No. 17-71 Argued: October 1, 2018Decided: November 27, 2018 The Fish and Wildlife Service administers the Endangered Species Act of 1973 on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior.…
No. 16-784 Argued: November 6, 2017Decided: February 27, 2018 The Bankruptcy Code allows trustees to set aside and recover certain transfers for the benefit of the bankruptcy estate, including,…
No. 16-6855 Argued: October 30, 2017Decided: April 17, 2018 Petitioner Marion Wilson was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. He sought habeas relief in Georgia Superior Court, claiming…
No. 16-1276 Argued: November 28, 2017Decided: February 21, 2018 Endeavoring to root out corporate fraud, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley) and the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street…
No. 17-530 Argued: April 16, 2018Decided: June 21, 2018 As the Great Depression took its toll, struggling railroad pension funds reached the brink of insolvency. During that time before…
No. 16-460 Argued: November 1, 2017Decided: January 22, 2018 Federal district courts may exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state claims not otherwise within their adjudicatory authority if those claims are…
No. 16-341 Argued: March 27, 2017Decided: May 22, 2017 The patent venue statute, 28 U. S. C. §1400(b), provides that "[a]ny civil action for patent infringement may be brought in the…
No. 16-602 Argued: Decided: February 21, 2017 The motion of Certain Medical Professionals and Medical Ethicists for leave to file a brief as amici curiae is granted. The petition for a writ…
No. 15-1189 Argued: March 21, 2017Decided: May 30, 2017 A United States patent entitles the patent holder to "exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling [its]…
No. 16-605 Argued: April 17, 2017Decided: June 5, 2017 Land developer Steven Sherman paid $2.7 million to purchase land in the town of Chester (Town) for a housing subdivision.…
No. 15-1031 Argued: March 20, 2017Decided: May 15, 2017 The Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act authorizes States to treat veterans' "disposable retired pay" as community property divisible upon…
No. 15-577 Argued: April 19, 2017Decided: June 26, 2017 The Trinity Lutheran Church Child Learning Center is a Missouri preschool and daycare center. Originally established as a nonprofit organization,…