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Us Airways, Inc. Vs. Barnett
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-29-2002
US Airways, Inc. v. Barnett - 535 U.S. 391 (2002) OCTOBER TERM, 2001 Syllabus US AIRWAYS, INC. v. BARNETT CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 00-1250. Argued December 4, 200l-Decided April 29, 2002 Mter respondent Barnett injured his back while a cargo handler for petitioner US Airways, Inc., he transferred to a less physically demanding mailroom position. His new position later became open to senioritybased employee bidding under US Airways' seniority system, and employees senior to him planned to bid on the job. US Airways refused his request to accommodate his disability by allowing him to remain in the mailroom, and he lost his job. He then filed suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA or Act), which prohibits an employer from discriminating against "an individual with a disability" who with "reasonable accommodation" can perform a job's essential functions, 42 U. S. C. 12112(a) and (b), unless the employer "can d...
Thompson Vs. Western States Medical Center
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-29-2002
Thompson v. Western States Medical Center - 535 U.S. 357 (2002) OCTOBER TERM, 2001 Syllabus THOMPSON, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, ET AL. v. WESTERN STATES MEDICAL CENTER ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 01-344. Argued February 26, 2002-Decided April 29, 2002 Drug compounding is a process by which a pharmacist or doctor combines, mixes, or alters ingredients to create a medication tailored to an individual patient's needs. The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (FDAMA) exempts "compounded drugs" from the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) standard drug approval requirements under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), so long as the providers of the compounded drugs abide by several restrictions, including that the prescription be "unsolicited," 21 U. S. C. 353a(a), and that the providers "not advertise or promote the compounding of any particular drug, class of drug, or type of drug,"...
Barnes Vs. Gorman
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-23-2002
Barnes v. Gorman - 536 U.S. 181 (2002) OCTOBER TERM, 2001 Syllabus BARNES, IN HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI, ET AL. v. GORMAN CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT No. 01-682. Argued April 23, 2002-Decided June 17,2002 Respondent, a paraplegic, suffered serious injuries that left him unable to work full time when, after arrest, he was transported to a Kansas City police station in a van that was not equipped to accommodate the disabled. He sued petitioner police officials and officers for discriminating against him on the basis of his disability, in violation of 202 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, by failing to maintain appropriate policies for the arrest and transportation of persons with spinal cord injuries. A jury awarded him compensatory and punitive damages, but the District Court vacated as to punitive damages...
Tahoe-sierra Preservation Council, Inc. Vs. Tahoe Regional Planning Ag ...
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-23-2002
Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency - 535 U.S. 302 (2002) OCTOBER TERM, 2001 Syllabus TAHOE-SIERRA PRESERVATION COUNCIL, INC., ET AL. v. TAHOE REGIONAL PLANNING AGENCY ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 00-1167. Argued January 7, 2002-Decided April 23, 2002 Respondent Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) imposed two moratoria, totaling 32 months, on development in the Lake Tahoe Basin while formulating a comprehensive land-use plan for the area. Petitioners, real estate owners affected by the moratoria and an association representing such owners, filed parallel suits, later consolidated, claiming that TRPA's actions constituted a taking of their property without just compensation. The District Court found that TRPA had not effected a "partial taking" under the analysis set out in Penn Central Transp. Co. v. New York City, 438 U. S. 104 ; however, it concluded that the moratoria did const...
United States Vs. Fior D'italia, Inc.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-22-2002
United States v. Fior D'Italia, Inc. - 536 U.S. 238 (2002) OCTOBER TERM, 2001 Syllabus UNITED STATES v. FIOR D'ITALIA, INC. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 01-463. Argued April 22, 2002-Decided June 17,2002 Employers must pay Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) taxes, calculated as a percentage of the wages, including tips, that their employees receive. 26 U. S. C. 3101, 3111, 3121(q). An employee reports the tip amount to the employer, who sends copies of the reports to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 26 CFR 31.6011(a)-1(a). In 1991 and 1992, respondent Fior D'ltalia restaurant paid FICA taxes based on the tip amount its employees reported, but the reports also showed that the tips listed on customers' credit card slips far exceeded the reported amount. The IRS made a compliance check and assessed additional FICA taxes using an "aggregate estimation" method, under which it examined the credit card slips; found the averag...
Jpmorgan Chase Bank Vs. Traffic Stream (Bvi) Infrastructure Ltd.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-17-2002
JPMorgan Chase Bank v. Traffic Stream (BVI) Infrastructure Ltd. - 536 U.S. 88 (2002) OCTOBER TERM, 2001 Syllabus JPMORGAN CHASE BANK v. TRAFFIC STREAM (BVI) INFRASTRUCTURE LTD. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT No. 01-651. Argued April 17, 2002-Decided June 10,2002 Respondent Traffic Stream (BVI) Infrastructure Ltd. is a corporation organized under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom. In 1998, petitioner, then known as Chase Manhattan Bank, agreed to finance some Traffic Stream ventures, with the contract to be governed by New York law and with Traffic Stream agreeing to submit to the jurisdiction of federal courts in Manhattan. Chase subsequently sued Traffic Stream for defaulting on its obligations. The District Court for the Southern District of New York found subject-matter jurisdiction under the alienage diversity statute, 28 U. S. C. 1332(a)(2)-which gives district courts jurisdi...
United States Vs. Craft
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-17-2002
United States v. Craft - 535 U.S. 274 (2002) OCTOBER TERM, 2001 Syllabus UNITED STATES v. CRAFT CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT No.00-1831. Argued January 14, 2002-Decided April 17, 2002 When respondent's husband failed to pay federal income tax liabilities assessed against him, a federal tax lien attached to "all [of his] property and rights to property." 26 U. S. C. 6321. Mter the notice of the lien was filed, respondent and her husband jointly executed a quitclaim deed purporting to transfer to her his interest in a piece of real property in Michigan that they owned as tenants by the entirety. Subsequently, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agreed to release the lien and allow respondent to sell the property with half the net proceeds to be held in escrow pending determination of the Government's interest in the property. She brought this action to quiet title to the escrowed proceeds. The Government claimed, among other things, that...
United States Vs. Drayton
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-16-2002
United States v. Drayton - 536 U.S. 194 (2002) OCTOBER TERM, 2001 Syllabus UNITED STATES v. DRAYTON ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT No. 01-631. Argued April 16, 2002-Decided June 17,2002 The driver of the bus on which respondents were traveling allowed three police officers to board the bus as part of a routine drug and weapons interdiction effort. One officer knelt on the driver's seat, facing the rear of the bus, while another officer stayed in the rear, facing forward. Officer Lang worked his way from back to front, speaking with individual passengers as he went. To avoid blocking the aisle, Lang stood next to or just behind each passenger with whom he spoke. He testified that passengers who declined to cooperate or who chose to exit the bus at any time would have been allowed to do so without argument; that most people are willing to cooperate; that passengers often leave the bus for a cigarette or a snack while officers are...
Ashcroft Vs. Free Speech Coalition
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-16-2002
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition - 535 U.S. 234 (2002) OCTOBER TERM, 2001 Syllabus ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ET AL. v. FREE SPEECH COALITION ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 00-795. Argued October 30, 200l-Decided April 16, 2002 The Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 (CPPA) expands the federal prohibition on child pornography to include not only pornographic images made using actual children, 18 U. S. C. 2256(8)(A), but also "any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture," that "is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct," 2256(8)(B), and any sexually explicit image that is "advertised, promoted, presented, described, or distributed in such a manner that conveys the impression" it depicts "a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct," 2256(8)(D). Thus, 2256(8)(B) bans a range of sexually explicit images, sometime...
Franconia Associates Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-15-2002
Franconia Associates v. United States - 536 U.S. 129 (2002) OCTOBER TERM, 2001 Syllabus FRANCONIA ASSOCIATES ET AL. v. UNITED STATES CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT No. 01-455. Argued April 15, 2002-Decided June 10,2002* Under 515 and 521 of the Housing Act of 1949, the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) makes direct loans to private, nonprofit entities to develop and/or construct rural housing for the elderly and low- or middle-income individuals and families. Petitioners are property owners who entered into such loans before December 21, 1979. The promissory notes petitioners executed authorized "[p]repaymen[t] of scheduled installments, or any portion thereof, ... at any time at the option of Borrower." On February 5, 1988, concerned about the dwindling supply of low- and middle-income rural housing in the face of increasing prepayments of mortgages by 515 borrowers, Congress enacted the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Ac...
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