(9 summaries)
Daniel Dineen
United States Supreme Court
| Title | Excerpt | Filling Date |
|---|---|---|
| Levin v. United States | Tort Law: The Gonzalez Act abrogates the Federal Tort Claim Act's sovereign immunity exception for intentional tort claims against medical doctors, therefore intentional tort claims against armed forces medical personnel acting within the scope of their employment are permissible. | (03-04-2013) |
| Evans v. Michigan | Constitutional Law: The Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial after an acquittal regardless of whether the acquittal was erroneous. | (02-20-2013) |
| United States v Home Concrete & Supply LLC. | Administrative Law: 26 U.S.C. §6501(e)(1))(A), which extends the period for detecting mistakes in tax returns from 3 years to 6 years only applies to complete omissions. It does not apply to basic understatements which lead to a smaller taxable gross income. | (04-25-2012) |
United States Supreme Court Certiorari Granted
| Title | Excerpt | Filling Date |
|---|---|---|
| Town of Greece v. Galloway | Constitutional Law: Whether a legislative prayer practice violates the Establishment Clause. | (05-20-2013) |
| Sprint Communications Co. v Jacobs | Civil Procedure: Whether the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit erred in applying the abstention doctrine to a review a "coercive" or "remedial" state proceeding. | (04-15-2013) |
| Agency for Int’l Dev. v. Alliance for Open Society Int’l, Inc. | First Amendment: Whether §7631(f) of the United States Leadership against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003 (“Leadership Act”), which requires that agencies that receive federal funding to administer foreign HIV and AIDS programs must have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex-trafficking, and endorse the government’s stance on prostitution, violates the First Amendment. | (01-11-2013) |
| Horne v. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture | Constitutional Law: Whether a party may bring a Fifth Amendment Just Compensation Clause challenge in district court prior to exhausting the statutorily prescribed process for obtaining just compensation through the Court of Federal Claims. | (11-20-2012) |
| Levin v. United States | Tort Law: Whether the United States and individual military personnel acting within the scope of their employment can be sued for the common law tort of battery. | (09-25-2012) |
| Evans v. Michigan | Constitutional Law: Whether an erroneously granted directed verdict, based on the prosecution’s failure to prove a non-existent element of the crime is an acquittal subject to the double-jeopardy provisions of the United States and state constitutions. | (06-11-2012) |