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Congress in 2006 enacted the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) as part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection

  The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in a habeas corpus proceeding challenging a Michigan conviction

  Petitioner Mohamed Ali Samantar was the First Vice President and Minister of Defense of Somalia, and later the Prime

  Petitioner  Dolan pleaded guilty to a federal charge of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. He then entered into a

  The question to be decided was whether under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U. S. C. §§1–16, a

The Supreme Court in  District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), had held that the Second Amendment protected the right to keep and bear arms

Respondent  Joseph Corcoran had shot and killed four men. An Indiana jury found him guilty of four counts of murder, found

The case concerned over the interpretation of the “except” clause prefacing 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(1)(A). Abbott was charged with violating 18

The California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, Cal.Penal Code Ann. §11164 et seq. (West Rev. Supp. 2010), required law enforcement and

  In a per curiam order, the judgment of the ninth circuit was affirmed by an equally divided Supreme Court.

  The question presented in the case was whether doctors who serve as medical residents can properly be viewed as “students”

  Respondent Damon Cooke was convicted of attempted first-degree murder, and a California court sentenced him to an indeterminate term

  The issue in the present case was whether the First Amendment shields the church members from tort liability for

Respondents were twenty-eight Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) employees in Pasadena, California. JPL is a NASA facility staffed exclusively by contract

A California jury convicted respondent Steven Frank Jackson of numerous sexual offenses stemming from his attack on a 72-year-old woman

  Matrixx, through a wholly owned subsidiary, develop, manufacture, and market over-the-counter pharmaceutical products. Its core brand of products is

  Respondents challenged §43–1089, a provision of the Arizona Tax Code. Section 43–1089 allowed Arizona taxpayers to obtain dollar-for-dollar tax

  The issue before the Supreme Court was whether Ex parte Young, 209 U. S. 123 (1908), allowed a federal court

  The Tohono O’odham Nation (an Indian Tribe with federal recognition) brought two actions based on the same alleged violations

  The issue in the present case was whether the FAA prohibits States from conditioning the enforceability of certain arbitration

  The case involved  a review of a federal habeas petition under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996

  The issue in the case was whether a party who “actively induces infringement of a patent” under 35 U.

  Since 1790, the patent law has operated on the premise that rights in an invention belong to the inventor.

The issue in the case was whether §282 of the Patent Act of 1952 require an invalidity defense to be

  The issue in the case was whether the Sentencing Reform Act precluded federal courts from imposing or lengthening a

  The District Court and the Court of Appeals approved the certification of a class comprising about one and a

  The question was whether the plaintiffs (few States, the city of New York, and three private land trusts) could

  Petitioner Humberto Leal Garcia (Leal) was a Mexican national who had lived in the United States since before the

  The case concerned the death of 7-week-old Etzel Glass. On November 29, 1996, Etzel’s mother, Tomeka, put Etzel to

  Respondents were individuals and entities who bought limited partnership interests in one of three limited partnerships, all known as

  Archie Dixon and Tim Hoffner murdered Chris Hammer in order to steal his car. Dixon then used Hammer’s birth

  Petitioner Joel Judulang is a native of the Philippines who entered the United States in 1974 at the age

  Irving Cross was tried for kidnapping and sexually as­saulting A. S. at knifepoint. Cross claimed that A. S. had

  The immigration laws have long given the Attorney General discretion to permit certain otherwise-removable aliens to remain in the

Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Date of judgment: March 20, 2012 The patents

National Federation of Independent Business Et Al. vs Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Et Al (Obama Healthcare Law)

Patentability of BRCA genes   The case involved patents filed by Myriad. Myriad discovered the precise location and sequence of

Supreme Court on same sex marriage   In 2008, the California Supreme Court held that limiting the official designation of

Challenge to Obama Health Care Law   The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 124 Stat. 119, grew out of

  Prisoners sentenced to death in the State of Oklahoma filed an action in federal court, contending that the method

  A jury convicted the petitioner of three counts of first-degree murder for the 2010 killing of Katrina Griffin and