Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC, 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R015; No. 09-152; 2/22/11. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 pre-empts all design-defect claims against vaccine manufacturers brought by plaintiffs seeking compensation for injury or death caused by a vaccine's side effects.
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CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Dept. of Revenue, 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R016; No. 09-520; 2/22/11. CSX may invoke the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to challenge Alabama's sales and use taxes as discriminatory.
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Walker v. Martin, 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R017; No. 09-996; 2/23/11. California’s time limitation on applications for habeas corpus relief qualifies as an independent state ground adequate to bar habeas relief in federal court.
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Williamson v. Mazda Motor of America, Inc., 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R018; No. 08-1314; 2/23/11. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 does not pre-empt state tort suits claiming that manufacturers should have installed lap-and-shoulder belts, instead of lap belts, on rear inner seats of passenger vehicles.
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Michigan v. Bryant, 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R019; No. 09-150; 2/28/11. The victim’s identification and description of the shooter and the location of the shooting were not testimonial statements here, because they had a “primary purpose . . . to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency,” Davis v. Washington, 547 U. S. 813, 822; thus, their admission at Bryant’s trial did not violate the Confrontation Clause.
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FCC v. AT&T Inc., 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R020; No. 09-1279; 3/1/11. Corporations do not have “personal privacy” for the purposes of Exemption 7(C) of the Freedom of Information Act.
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Staub v. Proctor Hospital, 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R021; No. 09-400; 3/1/11. If a supervisor performs an act motivated by antimilitary animus that is intended by the supervisor to cause an adverse employment action, and if that act is a proximate cause of the ultimate employment action, then the employer is liable under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994.
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Henderson v. Shinseki, 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R022; No. 09-1036; 3/1/11. The deadline for filing a notice of appeal with the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims does not have jurisdictional consequences.
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Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R023; No. 09-751; 3/2/11. The First Amendment shields respondents (Westboro) from tort
liability for picketing near a soldier's funeral service to express Westboro's views
on the United States' tolerance of homosexuality, particularly in America's military,
and on clergy scandals in the Catholic Church.
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Pepper v. United States, 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R024; No. 09-6822; 3/2/11. When a defendant's sentence has been set aside on appeal,
a district court at resentencing may consider evidence of the defendant's postsentencing
rehabilitation, and such evidence may support a downward variance from the now-advisory Federal
Sentencing Guidelines range; because the Eighth Circuit had set aside Pepper's entire
sentence and remanded for de novo resentencing, the District Court was not bound by
the law of the case doctrine to apply the same 40 percent departure applied by the original
sentencing judge.
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Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R025; No. 09-9000; 3/7/11. A convicted state prisoner seeking DNA testing of crime-scene
evidence may assert that claim in a 42 U. S. C. §1983 civil rights action.
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Wall v. Kholi, 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R026; No. 09-868; 3/7/11. In determining whether a motion is "a properly filed
application for . . . collateral review," 28 U. S. C. §2244(d)(2),
that tolls the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996's 1-year filing period
for federal habeas claims, the phrase "collateral review" means judicial review of a
judgment in a proceeding that is not part of direct review; the motion to reduce sentence under
Rhode Island law that was filed here is an application for "collateral review" under
§2244(d)(2).
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Milner v. Department of Navy, 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011)
R027; No. 09-1163; 3/7/11. Explosives maps and data requested from respondent are
not materials exempt from release under Freedom of Information Act Exemption 2, which
encompasses only records relating to employee relations and human resources issues.
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Felkner v. Jackson, 562 U. S. 2 ___ (2011) (per curiam)
R028; No. 10-797; 3/21/11. Because the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of
1996 imposes a highly deferential standard for federal habeas review of state-court decisions,
there was no basis for the Ninth Circuit to reach a conclusion opposite the one reached by the
state trial court, which credited the prosecutor's race-neutral explanations for dismissing
two of three African-American jurors, and by the California Court of Appeal, which carefully
reviewed the record in upholding the trial court's findings.
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