Volume 569 — United States Reports

This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 569 of the United States Reports:

Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, 569 U.S. 27 (2013), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that courts certifying classes must thoroughly vet prospective classes for all four requirements even if the court's analysis touches on the merits of the claim. The case restricted class certifications. The votes were split upon typical ideological lines, but, in an unusual move, the dissent was jointly written by two justices.

Millbrook v. United States, 569 U.S. 50 (2013), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that holds that the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) waives the sovereign immunity of the United States for certain intentional torts committed by law enforcement officers. The unanimous opinion, delivered by Justice Clarence Thomas, holds that law enforcement "employment" duties are not limited to searches, seizures of evidence, or arrests, and, as such, the petitioner can sue. As this case revolved around sovereign immunity waivers and not the merits, the Court did not decide upon the merits of the lawsuits.

Decided April 1, 2013 Respondent Rodgers waived his right to counsel three times before ulti mately proceeding to trial pro se. Held: The Court of Appeals erred in concluding that respondent’s claim is supported by “clearly established Federal law, as determined by” this Court, 28 U. S. C. § 2254(d)(1).

Genesis HealthCare Corp. v. Symczyk, 569 U.S. 66 (2013), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court in which the court held that, because the respondent had no personal interest in representing putative, unnamed claimants nor any other continuing interest that would preserve her suit from mootness, her suit was appropriately dismissed for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.

US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen, 569 U.S. 88 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that when someone seeks equitable relief to enforce an ERISA plan, the terms of the plans govern but equitable doctrines can fill gaps in the terms.

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 569 U.S. 108 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court decision in which the court found that the presumption against extraterritoriality applies to claims under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). According to the Court's majority opinion, "it would reach too far to say that mere corporate presence suffices" to displace the presumption against extraterritoriality when all the alleged wrongful conduct takes place outside the United States. The Court did not rule out the possibility of corporate liability if the presumption against extraterritoriality could be overcome by acts that sufficiently "touch and concern" the United States. Lower court decisions were divided. After the Supreme Court's 2018 decision in Jesner v.

Missouri v. McNeely, 569 U.S. 141 (2013), was a case decided by United States Supreme Court, on appeal from the Supreme Court of Missouri, regarding exceptions to the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution under exigent circumstances. The United States Supreme Court ruled that police must generally obtain a warrant before subjecting a drunken-driving suspect to a blood test, and that the natural metabolism of blood alcohol does not establish a per se exigency that would justify a blood draw without consent.

Moncrieffe v. Holder, 569 U.S. 184 (2013), is a United States Supreme Court decision in which the court ruled in a 7–2 decision that "social sharing of a small amount of marijuana" by a legal immigrant does not constitute aggravated felony and so does not require mandatory deportation.

McBurney v. Young, 569 U.S. 221 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld Virginia's and all states' right to restrict citizen requests for state government documents to citizens of that state.

Held: Hurricane Rita forced the Calcasieu Parish Courthouse to close. The trial court held the hearing on March 27, 2006, and at that time it became clear that Mr. Lorenzi’s fees could not 240 BOYER v. LOUISIANA Alito, J., concurring be fully paid until the start of the next fiscal year. Ten months later, the State broke the resulting impasse by an nouncing that it would no longer seek the death penalty.

Dan's City Used Cars, Inc. v. Pelkey, 569 U.S. 251 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that federal laws deregulating the transportation industry do not invalidate corresponding state provisions that regulate the seizure, storage, and sale of cars by towing companies. Robert Pelkey sued Dan's City Used Cars under New Hampshire law for unlawfully selling his vehicle. A lower court raised doubts as to whether the New Hampshire statute was valid at all, as Dan's City argued it was pre-empted by federal deregulation law, specifically, the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act, and the case eventually arrived before the Supreme Court.

Bullock v. BankChampaign, N.A., 569 U.S. 267 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the term "defalcation" in the Bankruptcy Code includes a scienter requirement involving knowledge of, or gross recklessness in respect to, the improper nature of the fiduciary behavior.

Bowman v. Monsanto Co., 569 U.S. 278 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court patent decision in which the Court unanimously affirmed the decision of the Federal Circuit that the patent exhaustion doctrine does not permit a farmer to plant and grow saved, patented seeds without the patent owner's permission. The case arose after Vernon Hugh Bowman, an Indiana farmer, bought transgenic soybean crop seeds from a local grain elevator for his second crop of the season. Monsanto originally sold the seed from which these soybeans were grown to farmers under a limited use license that prohibited the farmer-buyer from using the seeds for more than a single season or from saving any seed produced from the crop for replanting.

City of Arlington v. Federal Communications Commission, 569 U.S. 290 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that courts must apply the Chevron framework to an agency's interpretation of a statutory ambiguity that concerns the scope of the agency's statutory authority (i.e., its jurisdiction).

PPL Corp. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 569 U.S. 329 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that a foreign tax is creditable against United States income taxes when the tax would be an income, war profits, or excess profits tax if it had been enacted in the United States.

Metrish v. Lancaster, 569 U.S. 351 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Michigan Court of Appeals' rejection of a due-process habeas claim was not an unreasonable application of the Supreme Court's criminal retroactivity case law. The Supreme Court analyzed the case under Bouie v. City of Columbia and Rogers v. Tennessee.

Sebelius v. Cloer, 569 U.S. 369 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that an untimely National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act petition may qualify for an award of attorney's fees if it is filed in good faith and there is a reasonable basis for its claim.

McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that judges may review new evidence of actual innocence presented after AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations. This exception is called the "innocence gateway".

Trevino v. Thaler, 569 US 413, was a 2013 United States Supreme Court decision that applied the narrow exception to Coleman v. Thompson's rule recognized by Martinez v. Ryan to excuse ineffective assistance of counsel (IAC) claims that were procedurally defaulted under Texas state law. Martinez recognized a right to counsel in an initial-review collateral proceeding where state law did not allow ineffective assistance of counsel (IAC) claims to be raised until post-conviction proceedings because there is no constitutional right to counsel in post-conviction proceedings.

Maryland v. King, 569 U.S. 435 (2013), was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that held that a buccal swab to harvest an arrestee's DNA is comparable to fingerprinting and, therefore, a legal police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.

Hillman v. Maretta, 569 U.S. 483 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court decision in which the court unanimously ruled that a Virginia statute revoking beneficiary status for spouses whose marital status has changed was pre-empted by the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act (1954).

Decided June 3, 2013 At respondent’s trial for rape and other serious crimes, the trial court did not permit him to introduce evidence of the… Held: Under 28 U. S. C. § 2254(d)(1)’s deferential standard of review, the Nevada Supreme Court’s decision represented a reasonable application of this Court’s clearly established precedents, which recognize both the constitutional guarantee of “ ‘a meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense,’ ” Crane v. Kentucky, 476 U.

Horne v. Department of Agriculture, 569 U.S. 513 (2013) ("Horne I"); 576 U.S. 351 (2015) ("Horne II"), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court issued two decisions regarding the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The case arose out of a dispute involving the National Raisin Reserve, when a farmer challenged a rule that required farmers to keep a portion of their crops off the market. In Horne I, the Court held that the plaintiff had standing to sue for violation of the United States Constitution’s Takings Clause. In Horne II, the Court held that the National Raisin Reserve was an unconstitutional violation of the Takings Clause.

Peugh v. United States, 569 U.S. 530 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated when a defendant is sentenced under a version of the United States Federal Sentencing Guideliness promulgated after he committed his criminal acts and the new version provides a higher sentencing range than the version in place at the time of the offense.

Oxford Health Plans LLC v. Sutter, 569 U.S. 564 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that, under the limited judicial review allowed for decisions from binding arbitration, the sole question is whether the arbitrator arguably interpreted the parties' contract, not whether the arbitrator erred.

Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. 576 (2013), was a Supreme Court case, which decided that "a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated." However, the Court allowed patenting of complementary DNA, which contains exactly the same protein-coding base pair sequence as the natural DNA, albeit with introns removed.

United States v. Davila, 569 U.S. 597 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that, when a federal judge participates in the plea process in violation of Rule 11(c) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, a guilty plea need not be vacated if the record shows prejudice to the decision to plea due to Rule 11(h).

Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann, 569 U.S. 614 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Oklahoma statutes forbidding the export of water from the state are not preempted or forbidden by the Red River Compact.

American Trucking Ass'ns, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles, 569 U.S. 641 (2013), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that certain regulations imposed by City of Los Angeles on trucking companies were preempted by federal law. In 2006 the Board of Harbor Commissioners for Los Angeles, California adopted an environmental protection plan that included an effort called Clean Truck Program (CTP). The stated goal of the program is to "reduce negative impacts that port [trucking] inflicts on the local community." The implementation of this program began in 2007 and required trucking companies to comply with various requirements relating to maintenance of trucks, employment of drivers, and trucking operations.