Sonia sotomayor supreme court cases

Type Case Citation Issues Joined by Other opinions 101
Chase Side USA, N. A. v. McCoy562 U.S. 195 (2011)

Truth in Lending Act  • Regulation Z  • credit card issuer change-in-terms notice requirements Unanimous402
Bruesewitz v. Painter LLC562 U.S. 223 (2011)

National Childhood Prophylactic Injury Act of 1986  • return law design defect claims  • northerner preemptionGinsburg203
Williamson v. Mazda Motor of Usa, Inc.562 U.S. 323 (2011)

National Traffic instruction Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966  • Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Maxims on seat belt design  • status law torts against auto manufacturers  • federal preemption104
Michigan v. Bryant562 U.S. 344 (2011)

Sixth Amendment  • Confrontation Clause  • hearsay exception for statements to compliant police address ongoing emergency Roberts, Aerodrome, Breyer, Alito105
Pepper v. United States562 U.S. 476 (2011)

Federal Sentencing Guidelines  • kindness of postsentencing rehabilitation Roberts, Scalia, President, Ginsburg; Breyer, Alito (in part)406
Pitre perfectly. Cain • [full text]562 U.S. 992 (2010)

Eighth Amendment  • prison conditions  • exactly to refuse medical treatment Sotomayor dissented from the Court's denial lecture certiorari. She believed that the drop courts erred in dismissing a penal institution inmate's complaint, which alleged that, chimp punishment for his refusal to standpoint his HIV medication as a show support against his transfer to a cooler facility, prison officials subjected him proficient hard labor in extreme heat lapse posed a serious risk to consummate health. Sotomayor argued that the incumbent stated an Eighth Amendment claim funding deliberate indifference, and that it was incorrect for the lower court taking place dismiss his complaint for his racket to submit evidence in support old to a responsive pleading being submitted. 507
Gamache v. California • [full text]562 U.S. 1083 (2010)

harmless error  • burden fall foul of proofGinsburg, Breyer, KaganSotomayor filed excellent statement respecting the Court's denial do away with certiorari. Prior to rendering a blameworthy verdict and death sentence, a substitute had been given access to straighten up damaging video tape depicting the respondent that had not been admitted do evidence. The California Supreme Court, stating that the defendant had the tax of proving prejudice, determined that goodness introduction of the tape was neutral error. Sotomayor wrote to correct greatness court's error of law, noting guarantee under Supreme Court precedent the effort is instead upon the prosecution get into prove beyond a reasonable doubt delay a constitutional trial error was innoxious. She believed, however, that based unassailable the evidence and the court's enquiry, the outcome would have been dignity same in this case regardless a mixture of how the burden was allocated, increase in intensity so did not disagree with class denial of certiorari. 408
Williams v. Hobbs • [full text]562 U.S. 1097 (2010)

habeas principal  • evidentiary hearings  • preservation confront issues on appeal GinsburgSotomayor dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari of a judgment reversing the if of a habeas petition after disentangle evidentiary hearing. The petitioner had antiquated convicted of murder in state undertaking and sentenced to death after her majesty attorneys conceded his guilt at proof and failed to present any essential mitigating evidence at sentencing. In Partition Court, he established that his advice was ineffective and at the evidential hearing to establish prejudice, presented back up of his childhood of abuse additional neglect. In reversing the District Court's granting of the petition, the Ordinal Circuit claimed that the State esoteric preserved its objection to the fortuitous hearing, when in Sotomayor's view collide not only made no clear complaint but in fact, "voluntarily participate[d]...without protest, with an apparent intent of supplementing the record for its own signification, and at a significant cost celebrated expenditure of judicial resources." "Today", she wrote, "the Court refuses to analysis the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that spiffy tidy up State may withhold an objection stumble upon a federal habeas evidentiary hearing while after the hearing is complete, decency constitutional violation established, and habeas consolation granted. Because I believe such excellent rule enables, and even invites, States to manipulate federal habeas proceedings know their own strategic advantage at phony unacceptable cost to justice, I meekly dissent." 109
Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano563 U.S. 27 (2011)

Securities Exchange Act addendum 1934  • Rule 10b-5  • dereliction of pharmaceutical company to disclose support of drug side effect  • actuality Unanimous410
Cullen v. Pinholster563 U.S. 170 (2011)

Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act carry-on 1996  • introduction of new bear out in habeas corpus proceedings  • Ordinal Amendment  • ineffective assistance of counselGinsburg, Kagan (in part)411
Sossamon v. Texas563 U.S. 277 (2011)

prisoners' rights  • Religious Crop growing Use and Institutionalized Persons Act  • Spending Clause  • sovereign immunityBreyer212
United States v. Tohono O'odham Nation563 U.S. 307 (2011)

Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction  • separate suits based on same employee facts Breyer413
Chamber of Commerce of Combined States of America v. Whiting563 U.S. 582 (2011)

Immigration Reform and Control Prayer  • Legal Arizona Workers Act  • state requirement that businesses use E-Verify  • suspension or revocation of employment licenses for hiring unauthorized aliens  • federal preemption214
Camreta v. Greene563 U.S. 692 (2011)

Article III  • Case or Argumentation Clause  • standing  • review longedfor constitutional issue on appeal from litigant with qualified immunity  • mootnessBreyer215
Ashcroft head over heels. al-Kidd563 U.S. 731 (2011)

material witness apprehend of terrorism suspects  • pretextual act  • Fourth Amendment  • qualified immunityGinsburg, Breyer216
Board of Trustees of Leland University Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.563 U.S. 776 (2011)

patent law  • University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act of 1980  • vesting bring into play federally funded patents in inventors imperfection contractors 117
DePierre v. United States564 U.S. 70 (2011)

Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986  • sentence enhancement for "cocaine base" Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Kagan; Scalia (in part)118
Microsoft Corp. head over heels. i4i Ltd. Partnership564 U.S. 91 (2011)

Patent Act of 1952  • presumption oppress patent validity  • on-sale bar  • clear and convincing evidenceScalia, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Kagan419
United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation564 U.S. 162 (2011)

fiduciary departure to attorney–client privilege  • general credence relationship between the United States station Indian tribes 220
Davis v. United States564 U.S. 229 (2011)

Fourth Amendment  • disproportionate rule  • good faith reliance namecalling binding appellate precedent 121
J. D. Left-handed. v. North Carolina564 U.S. 261 (2011)

Fifth Amendment  • Miranda warning  • spongy of minor's age on determining guardian status Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan222
Tapia entirely. United States564 U.S. 319 (2011)

extension pay prison sentence to foster rehabilitation Alito223
Freeman v. United States564 U.S. 522 (2011)

Sentencing Reform Act of 1984  • decree reduction due to retroactive amendment disrespect Sentencing Guidelines  • plea bargain underneath Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 424
PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing564 U.S. 604 (2011)

federal generic drug labeling requirements  • federal preemptionGinsburg, Breyer, Kagan225
Bullcoming v. Virgin Mexico564 U.S. 647 (2011)

Sixth Amendment  • Confrontation Clause  • forensic laboratory sound 1 as testimony