Supreme Court - Sliplists, 548 U. S., Part 1

548 U. S., Part 1

Dixon v. United States, 548 U. S. ___ (2006)

R073; No. 05-7053; 6/22/06. Where petitioner claimed that she acted under duress when she illegally purchased firearms, the jury instructions at her trial did not run afoul of the Due Process Clause by placing the burden on her to establish duress by a preponderance of the evidence; modern common law does not require the Government to bear the burden of disproving her duress defense beyond a reasonable doubt.

Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales, 548 U. S. ___ (2006)

R074; No. 04-1376; 6/22/06. The new version of an immigration law provision, which permits reinstatement of an order removing an alien present unlawfully if he leaves and unlawfully reenters, applies to those who reentered the United States before the effective date of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 and does not retroactively affect petitioner, who is a continuing violator of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Burlington, N. & S. F. R. Co. v. White, 548 U. S. ___ (2006)

R075; No. 05-259; 6/22/06. The anti-retaliation provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not confine the actions and harms it forbids to those that are related to employment or occur at the workplace, but it does cover only those employer actions that would have been materially adverse to a reasonable employee or applicant. Under that standard, there was a sufficient evidentiary basis to support the jury's verdict on respondent's retaliation claim.

Woodford v. Ngo, 548 U. S. ___ (2006)

R076; No. 05-416; 6/22/06. The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 requirement that prisoners exhaust any available administrative remedies before challenging prison conditions in federal court requires proper exhaustion of administrative remedies.

Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Metabolite Laboratories, Inc., 548 U. S. ___ (2006) (per curiam)

R077; No. 04-607; 6/22/06. Certiorari dismissed as improvidently granted.

United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez, 548 U. S. ___ (2006)

R078; No. 05-352; 6/26/06. A trial court's erroneous deprivation of a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to his counsel of choice entitles him to reversal of his conviction; the violation is not subject to harmless-error analysis.

Kansas v. Marsh, 548 U. S. ___ (2006)

R079; No. 04-1170; 6/26/06. Kansas' capital sentencing system, which directs imposition of the death penalty when the sentencing jury determines that aggravating and mitigating circumstances are in equipoise, is constitutional.

Washington v. Recuenco, 548 U. S. ___ (2006)

R080; No. 05-83; 6/26/06. Failure to submit a sentencing factor to the jury, like failure to submit an element of an offense to the jury, is not "structural error" requiring invalidation of a conviction.

Randall v. Sorrell, 548 U. S. ___ (2006)

R081; No. 04-1528; 6/26/06. The Second Circuit's decision that all of Vermont Act 64's campaign contribution limits are constitutional, and that its campaign expenditure limits may be constitutional if they are narrowly tailored to the compelling state interests supporting the Act, is reversed, and the cases are remanded.

Arlington Central School Dist. Bd. of Ed. v. Murphy, 548 U. S. ___ (2006)

R082; No. 05-18; 6/26/06. The provision of the Individuals with Disabilities Act that permits a court to "award reasonable attorneys' fees as part of the costs" to prevailing parents, 20 U. S. C. §1415(i)(3)(B), does not authorize the recovery of expert fees.

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