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| Case name | Citation | Summary |
| Scott v. Harris | 2007 | Fourth Amendment seizure in a high speed chase, qualified immunity |
| Gonzales v. Carhart | 2007 | Court: United States Court of Appeals Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act |
| Davenport v. Washington Education Association | 2007 | A state may require that its public-sector unions receive authorization from nonmembers before spending their agency fees for election-related purposes |
| Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency | 2007 | power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions |
| Sinochem International Co., Ltd. v. Malaysia International Shipping Corporation | 2007 | District Court may respond immediately to defendant's forum non conveniens motion before resolving jurisdictional or other threshold concerns |
| Marrama v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts | 2007 | bad-faith exception to the right to convert Chapter 7 bankruptcy case to a Chapter 13 case |
| Philip Morris USA v. Williams | 2007 | constitutional limitations on punitive damages |
| Cunningham v. California | 2007 | applicability of Blakely v. Washington to California's determinate sentencing law |
| Medimmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. | 2007 | enforceability of patents before infringement |
| BP America Production Co. v. Burton | 2007 | Statute of limitations on contract actions by the Federal Government under 28 U.S.C. § 2415 is not applicable to administrative proceedings |
| Carey v. Musladin | 2006 | spectator publicity and the right to a fair trial; "clearly established" law under the AEDPA |
| Lopez v. Gonzales | 2006 | misdemeanor drug crimes as aggravated felonies |
| Clark v. Arizona | 2006 | constitutionality of Arizona's insanity defense statute |
| Hamdan v. Rumsfeld | 2006 | Guantanamo Bay detainees may not be tried by a military commission under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, and said military commission violates the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions, both of which apply to the detainees, |
| League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry | 2006 | Texas's 2003 redistricting of District 23 constituted a violation of Latinos' rights under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, however mid-decade redistricting is constitutional as long as it is not solely motivated by partisan gain |
| Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon | 2006 | informing a suspect of his rights under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations |
| Arlington Central School Dist. Bd. of Ed. v. Murphy | 2006 | The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act does not authorize the award of experts' fees to prevailing plaintiffs |
| Randall v. Sorrell | 2006 | campaign finance laws which limit expenditures violate the First Amendment, and the anticorruption benefits of contribution limits must be weighed against their First Amendment costs |
| Kansas v. Marsh | 2006 | statute allowing the death penalty in cases where the aggravating and mitigating evidence are equal does not violate the Eighth Amendment |
| United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez | 2006 | trial court's erroneous deprivation of a criminal defendant's choice of counsel entitles him to reversal of his conviction |