Supreme Court - Sliplists, 557 U. S., Part 2

557 U. S., Part 2

Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U. S. ___ (2009)

R078; No. 07-591; 6/25/09. The admission of laboratory certificates showing the results of forensic tests on a substance identified as cocaine, without testimony by the laboratory analysts who signed the certificates, violated petitioner’s Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him.

Safford Unified School Dist. #1 v. Redding, 557 U. S. ___ (2009)

R079; No. 08-479; 6/25/09. Because there were no reasons to believe that the drugs that Savana Redding was suspected of having presented a danger or were concealed in her underwear, the search of her underwear violated the Fourth Amendment; but because there is reason to question the clarity with which Savana’s Fourth Amendment right was established, the officials who ordered and carried out the search are entitled to qualified immunity from liability.

Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend, 557 U. S. ___ (2009)

R080; No. 08-214; 6/25/09. Because punitive damages have long been an accepted remedy under general maritime law, and because neither Miles v. Apex Marine Corp., 498 U. S. 19, nor the Jones Act altered this understanding, punitive damages for the willful and wanton disregard of the maintenance and cure obligation remain available as a matter of general maritime law.

Horne v. Flores, 557 U. S. ___ (2009)

R081; No. 08-289; 6/25/09. The lower courts did not engage in the proper analysis of petitioners’ Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(5) motion for relief from a judgment, entered in 2000, that Arizona had violated the federal Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 by inadequately funding the Nogales Unified School District’s program for English Language-Learner students.

Cuomo v. Clearing House Assn., L. L. C., 557 U. S. ___ (2009)

R082; No. 08-453; 6/29/09. A regulation promulgated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency purporting to pre-empt state law enforcement is not a reasonable interpretation of the National Bank Act.

Ricci v. DeStefano, 557 U. S. ___ (2009)

R083; No. 07-1428; 6/29/09. Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, before an employer can engage in intentional discrimination for the asserted purpose of avoiding or remedying an unintentional, disparate impact on particular employees, the employer must have a strong basis in evidence to believe it will be subject to disparate-impact liability if it fails to take the race-conscious, discriminatory action; New Haven’s City’s race-based rejection of firefighter promotion test results cannot satisfy the strong-basis-in-evidence standard.

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