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Circuit City Stores, Inc. Vs. Adams
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-21-2001
Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams - 532 U.S. 105 (2001) OCTOBER TERM, 2000 Syllabus CIRCUIT CITY STORES, INC. v. ADAMS CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 99-1379. Argued November 6, 2000-Decided March 21, 2001 A provision in respondent's application for work at petitioner electronics retailer required all employment disputes to be settled by arbitration. Mter he was hired, respondent filed a state-law employment discrimination action against petitioner, which then sued in federal court to enjoin the state-court action and to compel arbitration pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). The District Court entered the requested order. The Ninth Circuit reversed, interpreting 1 of the FAA-which excludes from that Act's coverage "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce" -to exempt all employment contracts from the FAA's reach. Held: The 1 exemptio...
Ferguson Vs. Charleston
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-21-2001
Ferguson v. Charleston - 532 U.S. 67 (2001) OCTOBER TERM, 2000 Syllabus FERGUSON ET AL. v. CITY OF CHARLESTON ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 99-936. Argued October 4, 2000-Decided March 21, 2001 In the fall of 1988, staff members at the Charleston public hospital operated by the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) became concerned about an apparent increase in the use of cocaine by patients who were receiving prenatal treatment. When the incidence of cocaine use among maternity patients remained unchanged despite referrals for counseling and treatment of patients who tested positive for that drug, MUSC staff offered to cooperate with the city in prosecuting mothers whose children tested positive for drugs at birth. Accordingly, a task force made up of MUSC representatives, police, and local officials developed a policy which set forth procedures for identifying and testing pregnant patients suspected of drug use; requ...
Egelhoff Vs. Egelhoff
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-21-2001
Egelhoff v. Egelhoff - 532 U.S. 141 (2001) OCTOBER TERM, 2000 Syllabus EGELHOFF v. EGELHOFF, A MINOR, BY AND THROUGH HER NATURAL PARENT, BREINER, ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF WASHINGTON No. 99-1529. Argued November 8, 2000-Decided March 21, 2001 While David A. Egelhoff was married to petitioner, he designated her as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy and pension plan provided by his employer and governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Shortly after petitioner and Mr. Egelhoff divorced, Mr. Egelhoff died intestate. Respondents, Mr. Egelhoff's children by a previous marriage, filed separate suits against petitioner in state court to recover the insurance proceeds and pension plan benefits. They relied on a Washington statute that provides that the designation of a spouse as the beneficiary of a nonprobate asset-defined to include a life insurance policy or employee benefit plan-is revoked automatically upon divorce. Responden...
Shafer Vs. South Carolina
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-20-2001
Shafer v. South Carolina - 532 U.S. 36 (2001) OCTOBER TERM, 2000 Syllabus SHAFER v. SOUTH CAROLINA CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH CAROLINA No. 00-5250. Argued January 9, 200l-Decided March 20, 2001 Under recent amendments to South Carolina law, capital jurors face two questions at the sentencing phase of the trial. They decide first whether the State has proved beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of any statutory aggravating circumstance. If the jury fails to agree unanimously on the presence of a statutory aggravator, it cannot make a sentencing recommendation. In that event, the trial judge is charged with sentencing the defendant to either life imprisonment or a mandatory minimum 30-year prison term. If, on the other hand, the jury unanimously finds a statutory aggravator, it then recommends one of two potential sentences-death or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. No other sentencing option is available to the jury. A South Carolina jury fou...
Traffix Devices, Inc Vs. Marketing Displays, Inc.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-20-2001
Traffix Devices, Inc v. Marketing Displays, Inc. - 532 U.S. 23 (2001) OCTOBER TERM, 2000 Syllabus TRAFFIX DEVICES, INC. v. MARKETING DISPLAYS, INC. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT No.99-1571. Argued November 29, 2000-Decided March 20, 2001 Respondent, Marketing Displays, Inc. (MDI), holds now-expired utility patents for a "dual-spring design" mechanism that keeps temporary road and other outdoor signs upright in adverse wind conditions. MDI claims that its sign stands were recognizable to buyers and users because the patented design was visible near the sign stand's base. Mter the patents expired and petitioner TrafFix Devices, Inc., began marketing sign stands with a dual-spring mechanism copied from MDI's design, MDI brought suit under the Trademark Act of 1946 for, inter alia, trade dress infringement. The District Court granted TrafFix's motion for summary judgment, holding that no reasonable trier of fact could determine that MDI h...
Buford Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-20-2001
Buford v. United States - 532 U.S. 59 (2001) OCTOBER TERM, 2000 Syllabus BUFORD v. UNITED STATES CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT No. 99-9073. Argued January 8, 200l-Decided March 20, 2001 The United States Sentencing Guidelines, as relevant here, define a career offender as one with at least two prior felony convictions for violent or drug-related crimes and provide that a sentencing judge must count as a single prior conviction all "related" convictions, advising that they are "related" when, inter alia, they were consolidated for sentencing. The Seventh Circuit has held that because two prior convictions might have been consolidated for sentencing, and hence related, even if a sentencing court did not enter a formal consolidation order, a court should decide whether such convictions were nonetheless functionally consolidated, meaning that they were factually or logically related and sentencing was joint. Petitioner Buford pleaded ...
Ohio Vs. Reiner
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-19-2001
Ohio v. Reiner - 532 U.S. 17 (2001) OCTOBER TERM, 2000 Syllabus OHIO v. REINER ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO No. 00-1028. Decided March 19, 2001 Respondent was tried for involuntary manslaughter in the death of his infant son Alex, who died from "shaken baby syndrome." His defense theory was that Alex was injured while in the care of the family's babysitter, Susan Batt. Batt informed the Ohio trial court before testifying that she intended to assert her Fifth Amendment privilege, and the court granted her transactional immunity. She then testified to the jury that she had refused to testify without a grant of immunity on the advice of counsel, although she had done nothing wrong. The jury convicted respondent, and he appealed. The appeals court reversed, and the State Supreme Court affirmed the reversal on the ground that Batt had no valid Fifth Amendment privilege because she asserted innocence and that the trial court's grant of immunity was...
Department of Interior Vs. Klamath Water Users Protective Assn.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-05-2001
Department of Interior v. Klamath Water Users Protective Assn. - 532 U.S. 1 (2001) CASES ADJUDGED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES AT OCTOBER TERM, 2000 Syllabus DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ET AL. v. KLAMATH WATER USERS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No.99-1871. Argued January 10, 200l-Decided March 5, 2001 The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) administers the Klamath Irrigation Project (Project), which uses water from the Klamath River Basin to irrigate parts of Oregon and California. Mter the Department began developing the Klamath Project Operation Plan (Plan) to provide water allocations among competing uses and users, the Department asked the Klamath and other Indian Tribes (Basin Tribes or Tribes) to consult with Reclamation on the matter. A memorandum of understanding between those parties called for assessment, in consultation with the Tribes, of the impacts of the...
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