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Daily Opinion Summaries for U.S. Supreme Court - 06/06/2011

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June 06, 2011 FindLaw.com Daily Opinion Summaries Newsletter

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Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
McNeill v. US

Intellectual Property, Patent, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Administrative Law
Board of Trustees of Standford University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Elections, Injury & Tort Law
Fox v. Vice

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LATEST SUMMARIES

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co., No. 09-1403
In a securities fraud class action against defendant alleging section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 violations, judgment of the appeals court affirming denial of Rule 23(b)(3) certification on the ground that plaintiffs failed to prove loss causation is reversed because securities fraud plaintiffs need not prove loss causation in order to obtain class certification. Read more...

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
McNeill v. US, No. 10-5258
In a dispute involving a state's ex post facto reduction of the maximum sentence for offenses under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U. S. C. section 922(g)(1), judgment of the appeals court upholding petitioner's sentencing enhancement based on petitioner's prior drug trafficking convictions is affirmed because a federal sentencing court must determine whether an offense under State law is a serious drug offense by consulting the maximum term of imprisonment applicable to a defendant's prior state drug offense at the time of the defendant's conviction for that offense. Read more...





Intellectual Property, Patent, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Administrative Law
Board of Trustees of Standford University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., No. 09-1159
In a patent dispute involving the scope of the Bayh-Dole Act (the Act), 35 U. S. C. sections 201(e), (c), 202(a), judgment of the appeals court denying petitioner standing is affirmed where the Act does not automatically vest title to federally-funded inventions in federal contractors or authorize contractors to unilaterally take title to such inventions. Read more...

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Elections, Injury & Tort Law
Fox v. Vice, No. 10-114
In a 42 U.S.C. section1988 dispute involving a claim for attorney's fees, judgment of the appeals court affirm award of fees without differentiating between time spent on frivolous and non-frivolous claims is reversed because when a plaintiff's suit involves both frivolous and non-frivolous claims, a court may grant reasonable fees to the defendant, but only for costs that the defendant would not have incurred but for the frivolous claims. Read more...

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