• 30 Sep 2019

    Jackson v. Virginia

    The judgment of the appellate court reversing the district court's order granting habeas corpus relief to the inmate was affirmed.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Int'l Shoe Co. v. Wash.

    Judgment affirming the denial of appellant corporation's motion to dismiss an order and notice of assessment of delinquent contributions entered by appellee state was affirmed. The conduct of appellant corporation's salesmen in soliciting business in the forum state was sufficient minimum contact with the state to subject appellant to suit for a liability to the state unemployment compensation fund that arose...
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Illinois v. Gates

    The Court reversed the judgment that suppressed evidence against respondents, a husband and wife, because the suppression was based on an erroneous application of an overly rigid and technical standard for determining whether a confidential informant's tip established probable cause; under the proper, commonsense approach, the corroboration by police of the facts of the tip established probable cause to believe that...
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Hickman v. Taylor

    The Court affirmed the judgment although it found that the rule of civil procedure was inapplicable to the case. Petitioner had not shown the necessity or justification needed to secure the written statements, private memoranda, and personal recollections that were prepared or formed by respondents' counsel in the course of the counsel's legal duties.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Hensley v. Eckerhart

    The Supreme Court vacated the award of respondents' attorney fees and remanded the case for a determination of which fees were reasonable.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Guz v. Bechtel National, Inc.

    Judgment reversed; plaintiff's contract action was improperly reinstated, as there was no evidence that his at-will status was altered by an implied contract. Plaintiff's implied covenant cause of action claim was properly dismissed. Plaintiff failed to show that defendant's proffered reasons for its actions were a pretext for prohibited age discrimination. Plaintiff's claim that defendant breached its...
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Graham v. Connor

    The court vacated and remanded the judgment of the appellate court.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown

    The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the state court. 9-0 Decision.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Giglio v. United States

    The Court reversed the appellate court's judgment and the trial court's conviction of defendant and remanded the case for a new trial.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Franks v. Delaware

    The court reversed the state supreme court's holding that a criminal defendant never had the right to challenge the veracity of a sworn statement used by police to procure a search warrant. The court held that the Fourth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the derivative exclusionary rule allowed petitioner, under the facts of his case, to attack the veracity of the warrant's affidavit after the warrant had...
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Foman v. Davis

    The Court reversed the judgment and remanded the cause was remanded for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion, which was that the appellate court should have treated the appeal from the denial of the motions as an effective, although inept, attempt to appeal from the judgment sought to be vacated.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Farmer v. Brennan

    Accordingly, the judgment of the court of appeals was vacated and the case was remanded for further proceedings.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Faragher v. City of Boca Raton

    The lower court's reversal of a judgment entered in favor of petitioner in an action against respondent under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for a sexually hostile work environment created by her supervisors, was reversed and remanded for reinstatement of the original judgment after the court held that employers may be held liable for actionable discrimination, subject to a defense based on reasonableness...
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. NRDC, Inc.

    The Court reversed the judgment because the EPA's interpretation of the statute was a permissible construction and entitled to deference, where the legislative history of the statute was silent as to the instant issue.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Ry. v. White

    The Court affirmed the judgment of the appellate court.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Birchfield v. North Dakota

    One North Dakota judgment reversed, another vacated; Minnesota judgment affirmed. 5-3 Decision; 2 Concurrences; 2 Dissents.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Arizona v. Gant

    The Court affirmed the judgment of the state supreme court. 5-4 decision; 1 concurrence; 2 dissents.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    AMTRAK v. Morgan

    The judgment was affirmed in that many of the acts upon which the employee's hostile environment claim depended were allowed to be considered despite having had occurred outside the 300 day filing period. The judgement was reversed as to that part which held that so long as one act falls within the period, discriminatory and retaliatory acts that are plausibly or sufficiently related to that act may also be considered...
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Alvarez v. Prospect Hosp.

    The order of the appellate division was reversed with costs, the doctor's motion for summary judgment was granted, and the certified question was answered in the negative.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Aguilar v. Atlantic Richfield Co.

    The appellate court's judgment was affirmed.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Zuckerman v. New York

    The court reversed the order.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Williams v. Superior Court

    Judgment of court of appeal reversed; case remanded.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes

    The court of appeals' judgment was reversed. 5-4 decision; 1 concurrence in part, as to Rule 23(b)(2) issue, and dissent in part, as to Rule 23(a)(2) issue.
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Upjohn Co. v. United States

    The judgment was reversed because petitioner's low- and mid-level employees' information was protected by the attorney-client privilege where it was necessary to defend against potential litigation, and the work-product doctrine applied to tax summonses. The court remanded the case for a determination as to whether the work-product doctrine applied, and to allow respondent to show a necessity for the disclosure...
    • 30 Sep 2019

    Terry v. Ohio

    The court affirmed a judgment that affirmed petitioner's conviction for carrying a concealed weapon because the "stop and frisk" tactics used by the police in the search of petitioner's person and the seizure of the weapon produced from the search were reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, as the arresting officer reasonably concluded that petitioner was armed and was about to engage in criminal activity...