In 2010, Congress enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in order to increase the number of Americans covered by health insurance and decrease the cost of health care. One key provision is the individual mandate, which requires most Americans...

Petitioner sought review of a judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, which affirmed a federal district court's dismissal of petitioner's action on a judgment rendered in a different federal district court. Petitioner...

Defendant, his wife, their two infant children, and a friend were riding in a car. Defendant was driving and his wife and one child were riding in the front seat. Defendant's friend and the other child were riding in the back seat. Defendant stopped...

Petitioner probation officers filed suit against their employer, respondent, the State of Maine, in federal court. Petitioners alleged that respondent violated the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), 29 U.S.C.S. §...

A California statute provides that, before additional nuclear power plants may be built, the state energy commission must determine on a case-by-case basis that there will be adequate capacity for storage of a plant's spent fuel rods at the time such...

The mother of plaintiff, a minor child, was involved in a car accident with defendant's employee. She brought suit for injuries and settled that action. Two years later she became pregnant and gave birth to plaintiff, who suffered from injuries relating...

Defendant contractor appealed from a judgment for plaintiff utility company in an action to collect damages under an indemnity clause of a contract. Defendant contracted to repair plaintiff's steam turbine, promising to indemnify plaintiff for all...

The company brought an action for the partition of real estate, alleging ownership in fee of an undivided one seventh and a life estate for the life of another in the remaining six sevenths and that each of the six owners owned an undivided one seventh...

Appellee township zoning hearing board upheld a zoning ordinance which required adult businesses to locate certain distances away from residential districts, schools, and churches, and which contained an amortization clause allowing existing businesses...

Petitioners sought review of a judgment that convicted them of a single count of general conspiracy in violation of 18 U.S.C.S. § 88 , asserting that they suffered substantial prejudice by being convicted with evidence that the United States admitted...