Supreme Court - Sliplists, 531 U. S., Part 1

531 U. S., Part 1

Arizona v. California, 531 U. S. ___ (2000)

R001; No. 8, Orig.; 10/10/00. Supplemental decree entered effectuating the parties’ accords with respect to claims for additional water for the Fort Mojave and Colorado River Indian Reservations.

Artuz v. Bennett, 531 U. S. ___ (2000)

R002; No. 99-1238; 11/7/00. An application for state postconviction relief's inclusion of procedurally barred claims does not render it improperly filed under an Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 provision tolling the Act's limitations period during the time that a "properly filed" application for state postconviction relief is pending.

Cleveland v. United States, 531 U. S. ___ (2000)

R003; No. 99-804; 11/7/00. Title 18 U. S. C. §1341--which proscribes use of the mails in furtherance of "any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining . . . property by means of . . . fraudulent . . . representations"--does not reach false statements made in an application for a state video poker license because such a license does not rank as ''property'' in the hands of the official licensor.

Sinkfield v. Kelley, 531 U. S. ___ (2000)

R004; No. 00-132; 11/27/00. Appellees lack standing to challenge their own majority-white voting districts as products of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering that created bordering majority-minority districts because they cannot show that they were assigned to their districts as a direct result of a racial classification.

Indianapolis v. Edmond, 531 U. S. ___ (2000)

R005; No. 99-1030; 11/28/00. Because the Indianapolis highway checkpoint program's primary purpose to interdict unlawful drugs is indistinguishable from genereal crime control, its checkpoints violate the Fourth Amendment.

Eastern Associated Coal Coal. v. Mine Workers, 531 U. S. ___ (2000)

R006; No. 99-1038; 11/28/00. Public policy considerations do not require courts to refuse to enforce an arbitration award ordering an employer to reinstate an employee truck driver who twice tested positive for marijuana.

Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd., 531 U. S. ___ (2000)

R007; No. 00-836; 12/4/00. In light of considerable uncertainty as to the precise grounds for decision, the Florida Supreme Court's judgment effectively extending by 12 days Florida's deadline for recounts of Presidential votes and directing Florida's Secretary of State to accept manual recounts submitted prior to that deadline is vacated and the case remanded.

Green Tree Financial Corp.-Ala. v. Randolph, 531 U. S. ___ (2000)

R008; No. 99-1235; 12/11/00. Where, as here, the District Court has ordered the parties to proceed to arbitration and dismissed all the claims before it, the decision is "final" and thus appealable under the Federal Arbitration Act; respondent's agreement to arbitrate is not rendered unenforceable simply because it says nothing about the costs of arbitration.

Bush v. Gore, 531 U. S. ___ (2000)

R009; No. 00-949; 12/12/00. Because it is evident that any recount seeking to meet 3 U. S. C. §5's December 12 safe-harbor date will be unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause, the judgment of the Florida Supreme Court ordering manual recounts to proceed in the 2000 Presidential election is reversed.

Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook Cty. v. Army Corps of Engineers, 531 U. S. ___ (2001)

R010; No. 99-1178; 1/9/01. Title 33 CFR §328.3(a)(3), as clarified and applied to petitioner's solid waste disposal site pursuant to a rule protecting migratory bird habitat in intrastate waters not adjacent to navigable waters, exceeds the authority granted to respondents under the Clean Water Act.

Glover v. United States, 531 U. S. ___ (2001)

R011; No. 99-8576; 1/9/01. The Seventh Circuit erred in engrafting onto the prejudice branch of the test in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U. S. 668, the requirement that any increase in sentence must meet a standard of significance.

Gitlitz v. Commissioner, 531 U. S. ___ (2001)

R012; No. 99-1295; 1/9/01. The Internal Revenue Code permits taxpayers to increase bases in their S corporation stock by the amount of the corporation's discharge of indebtedness excluded from gross income; such an increase occurs before the taxpayers are required to reduce the corporation's tax attributes.

Fiore v. White, 531 U. S. ___ (2001)

R013; No. 98-942; 1/9/01. Fiore's state conviction on a charge of operating a hazardous waste facility without a permit, when Pennsylvania concedes that he had a permit, violates due process because the Commonwealth failed to prove a necessary element of the crime.

Lopez v. Davis, 531 U. S. ___ (2001)

R014; No. 99-7504; 1/10/01. A Bureau of Prisons regulation denying early release to a prisoner whose offense is a felony attended by the carrying, possession, or use of a firearm is a permissible exercise of the BOP's discretion under 18 U. S. C. 3621(e)(2)(B), which authorizes it to reduce the prison term of an inmate convicted of a nonviolent felony who has successfully completed a substance abuse program.

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