Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R031; No. 10-1001; 3/20/12. Where, under state law, ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claims may only be raised in an initial-review collateral proceeding, not on direct review, a procedural default will not bar a federal habeas court from hearing those claims if, in the initial-review collateral proceeding, there was no counsel or counsel in that proceeding was ineffective.
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Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Md., 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R032; No. 10-1016; 3/20/12. The Fourth Circuit’s judgment that the self-care provision of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U. S. C. §§2612(a)(1)(D), did not abrogate the States’ immunity from suits alleging violations of that provision is affirmed.
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Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. , 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R033; No. 10-1150; 3/20/12. Respondent’s process for identifying correlations between metabolite levels and likely harm or ineffectiveness of drugs used to treat autoimmune disorders is not patent eligible.
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Roberts v. Sea-Land Services, Inc., 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R034; No. 10-1399; 3/20/12. For purposes of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation benefits cap—which is twice the national average weekly wage for the fiscal year in which compensation is newly awarded, 33 U. S. C. §906(c)—an employee is “newly awarded compensation” when he first becomes disabled and thereby becomes statutorily entitled to benefits, no matter whether, or when, a compensation order issues on his behalf.
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Sackett v. EPA, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R035; No. 10-1062; 3/21/12. The Sacketts may bring a civil action under the Administrative Procedure Act to challenge an Environmental Protection Agency compliance order asserting that their residential lot is subject to the Clean Water Act and that they have violated the provisions of the Act.
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Missouri v. Frye, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R036; No. 10-444; 3/21/12. The Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel extends to the consideration of plea offers that lapse or are rejected; defense counsel has the duty to communicate formal plea offers with favorable terms and conditions; defendants must demonstrate a reasonable probability that they would have accepted a lapsed or rejected offer and that the plea would have been entered even if the prosecution had discretion to cancel it or the trial court had discretion to refuse to accept it; here, the Missouri appellate court should determine in the first instance whether the plea would have been adhered to by the prosecution and accepted by the trial court.
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Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R037; No. 10-209; 3/21/12. Where counsel’s ineffective advice led to a plea offer’s rejection, and where the prejudice alleged is having to stand trial, a defendant must show that but for that advice, there is a reasonable probability that the offer would have been presented to the court, that the court would have accepted its terms, and that the conviction, sentence, or both would have been less severe than under the actual judgment and sentence imposed; any remedy must neutralize the taint of a constitutional violation, but must not grant a windfall to the defendant or needlessly squander the resources the State properly invested in the prosecution.
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Zivotofsky v. Clinton, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R038; No. 10-699; 3/26/12. The political question doctrine does not bar judicial review of the constitutionality of
§214(d) of the Foreign Relations Act, Fiscal Year 2003, which directs the Secretary of State, upon request by or for a United States citizen born in Jerusalem, to record the place of birth as Israel for purposes of registration of birth, certification of nationality, or issuance of a passport.
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Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC v. Simmonds, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R039; No. 10-1261; 3/26/12. Even assuming that the 2-year period to file suit against a corporate insider under
§16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 can be extended, the Ninth Circuit erred in determining that the period is tolled until the insider files a disclosure statement required by §16(a).
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Setser v. United States, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R040; No. 10-7387; 3/28/12. Where Setser was sentenced on federal drug charges while he had state charges pending, the Federal District Court had discretion to order that the federal sentence run consecutively to one of Setser’s anticipated state sentences and concurrently with the other; the state court’s subsequent decision to make Setser’s state sentences run concurrently did not establish that the Federal District Court imposed an unreasonable sentence.
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Vartelas v. Holder, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R041; No. 10-1211; 3/28/12. The impact of Vartelas’ brief travel abroad on his permanent resident status is determined not by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, but by the legal regime in force at the time of Vartelas’ 1994 felony conviction.
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FAA v. Cooper, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R042; No. 10-1024; 3/28/12. The Privacy Act of 1974, which contains a detailed set of requirements for the management of records held by Executive Branch agencies, does not unequivocally authorize damages for mental or emotional distress and therefore does not waive the Government’s sovereign immunity from liability for such harms.
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Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R043; No. 10-945; 4/2/12. Here, the county jails’ search policy for newly admitted arrestees—which required the arrestees to undergo a close visual inspection while undressed—struck a reasonable balance between inmate privacy and the institutions’ needs; thus, the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments do not require adoption of an exception for persons who have been arrested for minor offenses and have given corrections officers no reason to suspect that they are concealing weapons, drugs, or other contraband.
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Rehberg v. Paulk, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R044; No. 10-788; 4/2/12. A witness in a grand jury proceeding is entitled to the same absolute immunity from suit under 42 U. S. C. §1983 as a witness who testifies at trial.
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Vasquez v. United States, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R045; No. 11-199; 4/2/12. Certiorari dismissed as improvidently granted.
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Filarsky v. Delia, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R046; No. 10-1018; 4/17/12. A private individual temporarily retained by the government to carry out its work—here, a private attorney engaged by a city—is entitled to seek qualified immunity from suit under 42 U. S. C. §1983.
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Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. v. Novo Nordisk A/S, 566 U. S. 1 ___ (2012)
R047; No. 10-844; 4/17/12. The manufacturer of a generic drug “may assert a counterclaim” in a patent infringement suit, pursuant to 21 U. S. C. §355(j)(5)(C)(ii)(I), in order to force correction of a “use code”—a description of a patent’s scope that brand manufacturers are required to submit to the Federal Drug Administration—on the ground that such code inaccurately describes the brand’s patent as covering a particular method of using the drug.
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