This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 531 of the United States Reports :
| Case name | Citation | Date decided |
|---|---|---|
| Arizona v. California | 531 U.S. 1 | October 10,2000 |
| California gets a maximum of 50% up to 4,400,000 acre-feet (5.4 km3) of Colorado River water a year or less according to certain formula; Nevada gets 4% and Arizona gets the remainder | ||
| Artuz v. Bennett | 531 U.S. 4 | 2000 |
| An application for state postconviction relief containing procedurally barred claims is filed within the meaning of the AEDPA. | ||
| Cleveland v. United States | 531 U.S. 12 | 2000 |
| "Property" for the purposes of federal law does not include state video poker licenses. | ||
| Sinkfield v. Kelley | 531 U.S. 28 | 2000 |
| The plaintiffs lacked standing under Hays because they neither alleged nor produced any evidence that any of them was assigned to his or her district as a direct result of having personally been subjected to a racial classification. | ||
| Indianapolis v. Edmond | 531 U.S. 32 | 2000 |
| Police may not conduct roadblocks "whose primary purpose is to detect evidence of ordinary criminal wrongdoing." Such roadblocks must have a specific primary purpose, such as keeping roadways safe from impaired drivers, or enforcing border security. | ||
| Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. Mine Workers | 531 U.S. 57 | 2000 |
| Public policy considerations do not require courts to refuse to enforce an arbitration award ordering an employer to reinstate an employee truck driver who twice tested positive for marijuana. | ||
| Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. | 531 U.S. 70 | 2000 |
| Decision vacated and case remanded for clarification | ||
| Green Tree Financial Corp.-Ala. v. Randolph | 531 U.S. 79 | 2000 |
| (1) An order compelling arbitration pursuant to an agreement is a "final decision with respect to arbitration". (2) An arbitration agreement that is silent on arbitration costs and fees is enforceable. | ||
| Bush v. Gore | 531 U.S. 98 | 2000 |
| In the circumstances of this case, any manual recount of votes seeking to meet the December 12 "safe harbor" deadline would be unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. | ||
| Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook Cty. v. Army Corps of Engineers | 531 U.S. 159 | 2001 |
| The migratory bird rule exceeds the scope of the Clean Water Act, as interpreted by the EPA. | ||
| Glover v. United States | 531 U.S. 198 | 2001 |
| A significant increase in a prison sentence is not required in order to show prejudice in a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel. | ||
| Gitlitz v. Commissioner | 531 U.S. 206 | 2001 |
| The Internal Revenue Code permits taxpayers to increase bases in their S corporation stock by the amount of an S corporation's discharge of indebtedness excluded from gross income and the increase occurs before taxpayers are required to reduce the S corporation's tax attributes. | ||
| Fiore v. White | 531 U.S. 225 | 2001 |
| The Due Process Clause forbids a State to convict a person of a crime without proving the crime's elements beyond a reasonable doubt. Here, failure to possess a permit is a basic element of the crime of which Fiore was convicted, and the parties agree that the Commonwealth presented no evidence to prove that element. | ||
| Lopez v. Davis | 531 U.S. 230 | 2001 |
| The Bureau of Prisons regulation does not require consideration of the non-violent nature of the underlying conviction. | ||
| Seling v. Young | 531 U.S. 250 | 2001 |
| An "as-applied" challenge to a civil commitment statute on the grounds that it is punitive does not change the civil nature of the detention; there is no violation of Double Jeopardy. | ||
| City News & Novelty, Inc. v. Waukesha | 531 U.S. 278 | 2001 |
| The writ of certiorari is dismissed as moot due to the store withdrawing its application. | ||
| District of Columbia v. Tri County Industries, Inc. | 531 U.S. 287 | 2001 |
| Dismissed as improvidently granted. | ||
| Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Assn. | 531 U.S. 288 | 2001 |
| A statewide association, incorporated to regulate interscholastic athletic competition among public and private schools, is regarded as engaging in state action when it enforces a rule against a member school. | ||
| Director of Revenue of Mo. v. CoBank ACB | 531 U.S. 316 | 2001 |
| The National Bank for Cooperatives, which Congress has designated as a federally chartered instrumentality of the United States, is not exempt from state income taxation. | ||
| Illinois v. McArthur | 531 U.S. 326 | 2001 |
| Police officers who had probable cause to believe an individual was hiding drugs in his home, and who blocked the individual from entering while awaiting a search warrant, did not violate the Fourth Amendment. | ||
| Buckman Co. v. Plaintiffs' Legal Comm. | 531 U.S. 341 | 2001 |
| Plaintiffs' claims are pre-empted under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. | ||
| Board of Trustees of Univ. of Ala. v. Garrett | 531 U.S. 356 | 2001 |
| Congress's enforcement powers under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution did not extend to the abrogation of state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment if the discrimination was rationally based on a disability. | ||
| Central Green Co. v. United States | 531 U.S. 425 | 2001 |
| The term 'flood or flood waters' within the Flood Control Act of 1928 includes water that is released for the purpose of flood control. | ||
| Lewis v. Lewis & Clark Marine, Inc. | 531 U.S. 438 | 2001 |
| A District Court did not abuse discretion when it dissolved an injunction under the Limitation of Liability Act, which prevented a seaman from suing a vessel owner in state court. | ||
| Whitman v. American Trucking Assns., Inc. | 531 U.S. 457 | 2001 |
| (1) The Clean Air Act properly delegated legislative power to the Environmental Protection Agency. (2) The Environmental Protection Agency cannot consider implementation costs in setting primary and secondary national ambient air quality standards. | ||
| Semtek v. Lockheed Martin | 531 U.S. 497 | 2001 |
| The claim preclusive effect of a federal judgment on a claim over which subject matter jurisdiction is based solely on diversity is determined by the common law of the state in which the federal district court rendering the decision is located. The Maryland action is not precluded just because a California court dismissed the diversity action. | ||
| Cook v. Gralike | 531 U.S. 510 | 2001 |
| A constitutional amendment in the state of Missouri that placed a warning label on ballots next to the names of any and all candidates who did not support legislative term limits for members is unconstitutional because it sought to influence the results of elections. The power that is granted by the Elections Clause to the Constitution of the United States to the states is only meant to apply to the procedural mechanisms of elections. | ||
| Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez | 531 U.S. 533 | 2001 |
| A restriction on advocacy by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) seeking to change welfare law is an unconstitutional viewpoint restriction even though the LSC is a quasi-government entity. | ||