Sebelius v. Auburn Regional Medical Center
Because the 180-day period within which a healthcare provider must appeal a fiscal intermediary’s initial decision on the amount for which the provider is to be reimbursed for inpatient services rendered to Medicare beneficiaries under 42 U. S. C. §1395oo(a)(3) is not “jurisdictional” it was permissible for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to allow a regulation extending the time for a provider’s appeal to three years and the presumption in favor of equitable tolling is not applicable.
Area(s) of Law:- Administrative Law
Lozman v. Riviera Beach
The test for whether a floating structure is a vessel is “[whether] a reasonable observer, looking to the home’s physical characteristics and activities, would consider it designed to a practical degree for carrying people or things over water.”
Area(s) of Law:- Admiralty
Already, LLC v Nike, Inc.
Broad language to "unconditionally and irrevocably" prohibit suit, claim or demand meets the burden of the voluntary cessation test and therefore ends any actual case or controversy necessary for Article III standing.
Area(s) of Law:- Standing
Smith v. United States
A defendant—not the government—has the burden of proving withdrawal from a conspiracy.
Area(s) of Law:- Criminal Law
Los Angeles County Flood Control Dist. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
The flow of polluted river water through concrete channels and back into the same river does not constitute a "discharge of pollutants" under the Clean Water Act.
Area(s) of Law:- Environmental Law
Ryan v. Gonzales & Tibbals v. Carter v. Solis
State prisoners have no right to a stay of their record-based habeas proceedings when they are adjudged incompetent.
Area(s) of Law:- Habeas Corpus