Supreme Court - Sliplists, 550 U. S., Part 1

550 U. S., Part 1

Watters v. Wachovia Bank, N. A., 550 U. S. __ (2007)

R028; No. 05-1342; 04/17/07. Wachovia's mortgage lending business, whether conducted by the bank itself or through the bank's operating subsidiary, is subject to superintendence by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and not to the licensing, reporting, and visitorial regimes of the several States in which the subsidiary operates.

Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., 550 U. S. __ (2007)

R029; No. 05-705; 04/17/07. The Federal Communications Commission's conclusion-that a long-distance communications carrier's refusal to compensate a payphone operator when a caller uses that operator's payphone to obtain free access to the carrier is a "practice . . . that is unjust or unreasonable" under Communications Act of 1934 �1(b)-is lawful; �7, which authorizes any person "damaged" by a �1(b) violation to bring a federal-court lawsuit to recover damages, authorizes suit in this case.

Zuni Public School Dist. No. 89 v. Department of Education, 550 U. S. __ (2007)

R030; No. 05-1508; 04/17/07. In determining whether a State's public school funding program "equalizes expenditures" for purposes of the Federal Impact Aid Program, the Secretary of Education is permitted to identify school districts that should be "disregard[ed]" from the calculation by looking to the number of the district's pupils as well as to the size of the district's expenditures per pupil.

Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U. S. __ (2007)

R031; No. 05-380; 04/18/07. Respondent abortion doctors and advocacy groups have not demonstrated that the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, as a facial matter, is void for vagueness, or that it imposes an undue burden on a woman's right to abortion based on its overbreadth or lack of a health exception.

James v. United States, 550 U. S. __ (2007)

R032; No. 05-9264; 04/18/07. Attempted burglary, as defined by Florida law, is a "violent felony" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U. S. C. �4(e), which provides a 15-year mandatory minimum prison term for a defendant, convicted of possessing a firearm, who has three prior convictions "for a violent felony."

Abdul-Kabir v. Quarterman, 550 U. S. __ (2007)

R033; No. 05-11284; 04/25/07. Because there is a reasonable likelihood that the Texas trial court's instructions prevented jurors from giving meaningful consideration to constitutionally relevant mitigating evidence, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' merits adjudication "resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States," 28 U. S. C. �54(d)(1), and thereby warranted federal habeas relief.

Brewer v. Quarterman, 550 U. S. __ (2007)

R034; No. 05-11287; 04/25/07. Because the Texas capital sentencing statute, as interpreted by the State's Court of Criminal Appeals, impermissibly prevented Brewer's jury from giving meaningful consideration and effect to constitutionally relevant mitigating evidence, the appeals court's decision denying Brewer relief under Penry v. Lynaugh, 492 U. S. 302, was both "contrary to" and "involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States," 28 U. S. C. �54(d).

Smith v. Texas, 550 U. S. __ (2007)

R035; No. 05-11304; 04/25/07. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals made errors of federal law in analyzing Smith's challenge to the special issues used at his capital sentencing hearing, and those errors cannot be the predicate for requiring Smith to show egregious harm to obtain relief.

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