Sykes v. United States, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R057; No. 09-11311; 6/9/11. Felony vehicle flight, as proscribed by Indiana law, is a “violent felony” for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U. S. C. §924(e), which provides a 15-year mandatory minimum prison term for a defendant, convicted of firearms possession, who has three prior “violent felony” convictions.
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Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co., 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R058; No. 10-313; 6/9/11. This Court defers to the Federal Communications Commission’s reasonable interpretation of its Telecommunications Act of 1996 regulations: To satisfy its duty under 47 U. S. C. §251(c)(2), an incumbent local telephone service provider must make its existing “entrance facilities,” i.e., connective transmission cables, available to a competitor at cost-based rates if the facilities are to be used for interconnection of the two providers’ networks.
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DePierre v. United States, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R059; No. 09-1533; 6/9/11. “[C]ocaine base” as used in 21 U. S. C. §841(b)(1)(A)(iii)—which provides a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence for offenses involving “50 grams or more of a mixture or substance . . . which contains cocaine base”—means not just “crack cocaine,” but cocaine in its chemically basic form.
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Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R060; No. 10-290; 6/9/11. Section §282 of the Patent Act of 1952, which provides that “[a] patent shall be presumed valid” and that “[t]he burden of establishing invalidity of a patent or any claim thereof shall rest on the party asserting such invalidity,” requires an invalidity defense to be proved by clear and convincing evidence.
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Nevada Comm’n on Ethics v. Carrigan, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R061; No. 10-568; 6/13/11. Nevada’s Ethics in Government Law—which requires public officials who have a conflict of interest to recuse themselves from voting on a proposal or advocating its passage or failure—does not violate the First Amendment.
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Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R062; No. 09-525; 6/13/11. Petitioners Janus Capital Group, Inc., and its wholly owned subsidiary Janus Capital Management LLC—a mutual fund investment adviser—cannot be held liable in a private action under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule 10b–5 for false statements made in the prospectuses of its client Janus Investment Fund.
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United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R063; No. 10-382; 6/13/11. The fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege does not apply to the general trust relationship between the United States and the Indian tribes.
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Flores-Villar v. United States, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R064; No. 09-5801; 6/13/11. Judgment affirmed by equally divided Court.
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Bond v. United States, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R065; No. 09-1227; 6/16/11. Bond, who was charged with violating 18 U. S. C. §229—which forbids knowing possession or use of a chemical that “can cause death, temporary incapacitation or permanent harm to humans”—for injuring someone with chemicals during a domestic dispute, has standing to challenge the federal statute on grounds that the measure interferes with the powers reserved to States.
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Davis v. United States, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R066; No. 09-11328; 6/16/11. Searches conducted in objectively reasonable reliance on binding appellate precedent are not subject to the exclusionary rule.
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J. D. B. v. North Carolina, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R067; No. 09-11121; 6/16/11. A child’s age is relevant to the determination whether the child was in police custody for purposes of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436.
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Smith v. Bayer Corp., 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R068; No. 09-1205; 6/16/11. In enjoining a state court from considering Smith’s class certification request, the Federal District Court exceeded its authority under the “relitigation exception” to the federal Anti-Injunction Act, which generally prohibits federal courts from enjoining state court proceedings.
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Tapia v. United States, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R069; No. 10-5400; 6/16/11. Title 18 U. S. C. §3582(a) does not permit a sentencing court to impose or lengthen a prison term in order to foster a defendant’s rehabilitation.
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R070; No. 10-277; 6/20/11. In this Title VII employment discrimination case, the certification of a nationwide class of 1.5 million women was not consistent with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(a)’s commonality requirement, and respondents’ backpay claims—which were for individualized monetary relief—were improperly certified under Rule 23(b)(2).
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Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R071; No. 09-1476; 6/20/11. A government employer’s allegedly retaliatory actions against an employee do not give rise to liability under the First Amendment’s Petition Clause unless the employee’s petition related to a matter of public concern.
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American Elec. Power Co. v. Connecticut, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R072; No. 10-174; 6/20/11. The Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency action the Act authorizes displace any federal common-law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants.
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Turner v. Rogers, 564 U. S. 1 ___ (2011)
R073; No. 10-10. 6/20/11. The Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause does not automatically require the State to provide counsel at civil contempt proceedings to an indigent noncustodial parent who is subject to a child support order, even if that individual faces incarceration (for up to a year). In particular, that Clause does not require that counsel be provided where the opposing parent or other custodian (to whom support funds are owed) is not represented by counsel and the State provides alternative procedural safeguards equivalent to adequate notice of the importance of the ability to pay, a fair opportunity to present, and to dispute, relevant information, and express court findings as to the supporting parent’s ability to comply with the support order.
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