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CERCLA Violation – Jurisdiction
For nearly a century, the Anaconda Copper Smelter in Butte, Montana contaminated an area of over 300 square miles with arsenic and lead.
Application for Stay
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAVANAUGH and by him referred to the Court is granted.
Statutory Interpretation – ADEA
The federal-sector provision of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), 88 Stat. 74, 29 U. S. C. §633a(a), provides (with just a few exceptions) that “personnel actions” affecting individuals aged 40 and older “shall be made free from any discrimination based on age.”
4th Amendment Violation – Unlawful-stop Claim
This case presents the question whether a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment by initiating an investigative traffic stop after running a vehicle’s license plate and learning that the registered owner has a revoked driver’s license.
Breach of Contract – Warranty – Safe-berth Clause
In 2004, the M/T Athos I, a 748-foot oil tanker, allided with a nine-ton anchor abandoned on the bed of the Delaware River.
Sentencing Guidelines and Plain Error
In July 2016, police officers in Dallas, Texas, received a tip about a suspicious car parked outside of a house in the Dallas area.
Title VII Violation
Entertainment Studios Network (ESN), an African-American-owned television-network operator, sought to have cable television conglomerate Comcast Corporation carry its channels.
Due Process Violation
This case is about Kansas’s treatment of a criminal defendant’s insanity claim.
Copyright Infringement – Sovereign Immunity
In 1996, a marine salvage company named Intersal, Inc., discovered the shipwreck of the Queen Anne’s Revenge off the North Carolina coast.
Statutory Interpretation – Immigration and Nationality Act – Limited Review Provision
The Immigration and Nationality Act provides for judicial review of a final Government order directing the removal of an alien from this country.
Statutory Interpretation – Implied Preemption – Supremacy Clause
Kansas makes it a crime to commit “identity theft” or engage in fraud to obtain a benefit.
Tax Refund
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) allows an affiliated group of corporations to file a consolidated federal return.
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