Supreme Court - Sliplists, 530 U. S., Part 1

530 U. S., Part 1

United States v. Hubbell, 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R065; No. 99-166; 6/5/00. Respondent's indictment must be dismissed because the Government cannot prove that the evidence it used in obtaining the indictment and proposed to use at trial was derived from legitimate sources wholly independent of the testimonial aspect of respondent's immunized conduct in producing subpoenaed documents.

Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R066; No. 99-138; 6/5/00. Washington Supreme Court's judgment that State's nonparental visitation statute--which allows any person to petition for visitation and allows state courts to grant visitation when it is in the child's best interest--violated respondent's due process right to rear her children, affirmed.

Sims v. Apfel, 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R067; No. 98-9537; 6/5/00. Fifth Circuit's judgment that it lacked jurisdiction over claims of Social Security claimant who failed to exhaust administrative remedies reversed, and case remanded.

Castillo v. United States, 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R068; No. 99-658; 6/5/00. Title 18 U. S. C. sec. 924(c)(1) uses the word "machinegun" (and similar words) to state an element of a separate, aggravated crime, not a sentencing factor.

Hartford Underwriters Ins. Co. v. Union Planters Bank, N. A., 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R063; No. 99-409; 5/30/00. Title 11 U. S. C. sec. 506(c) does not provide an administrative claimant of a bankruptcy estate an independent right to seek payment of its claim from property encumbered by a secured creditor's lien.

Raleigh v. Illinois Dept. of Revenue, 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R064; No. 99-387; 5/30/00. When the substantive law creating a tax obligation puts the burden of proof on a taxpayer, the burden of proof on the tax claim in bankruptcy court remains where the substantive law put it.

Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc., 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R069; No. 99-536; 6/12/00. An employer is not entitled to judgment as a matter of law when its employee's case under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 consists of a prima facie case of discrimination and sufficient evidence for the trier of fact to disbelieve the employer's legitimate, nondiscriminatory explanation for its action.

Ramdass v. Angelone, 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R070; No. 99-7000; 6/12/00. Fourth Circuit's judgment--that petitioner was not entitled to a jury instruction on parole ineligibility at his capital sentencing trial where a conviction does not count for the purposes of Virginia's three-strikes law unless a final judgment has been entered--affirmed.

Pegram v. Herdrich, 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R071; No. 98-1949; 6/12/00. Mixed treatment and eligibility decisions by a health maintenance organization through its physicians are not fiduciary decisions within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Harris Trust and Sav. Bank v. Salomon Smith Barney Inc., 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R072; No. 99-579; 6/12/00. ERISA sec. 502(a)(3)'s authorization to a benefit plan "participant, beneficiary, or fiduciary" to bring a civil action for "appropriate equitable relief" extends to a suit against a nonfiduciary "party in interest" to a prohibited transaction barred by sec. 406(a).

Carter v. United States, 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R073; No. 99-5716; 6/12/00. Because 18 U. S. C. sec. 2113(b) requires three elements not required by sec. 2113(a), it is not a lesser included offense of sec. 2113(a), and petitioner is prohibited as a matter of law from obtaining a lesser included offense instruction on the offense described by sec. 2113(b) in his bank robbery trial.

Santa Fe Independent School Dist. v. Doe, 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R074; No. 99-62; 6/19/00. A Texas school district's policy permitting student-led, student-initiated prayer at high school football games violates the Establishment Clause.

Miller v. French, 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R075; No. 99-224; 6/19/00. Congress intended the automatic stay provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 to preclude courts from exercising their equitable powers to enjoin the stay, and the provision does not violate separation of powers principles.

Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council, 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R076; No. 99-474; 6/19/00. Where a Massachusetts law barring state entities from buying goods and services from companies doing business with Burma conflicts with a federal law imposing sanctions on Burma, the Massachusetts law is preempted, and its application unconstitutional, under the Supremacy Clause.

Arizona v. California, 530 U. S. ___ (2000)

R077; No. 8, Orig.; 6/19/00. The claims of the United States and the Quechan Tribe to increased water rights for the disputed boundary lands of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation are not foreclosed by Arizona v. California, 373 U. S. 546, or by a 1983 Court of Claims consent judgment.

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