Recent Cases

• Alien Tort Statute

  Doe I v. Nestle, S.A.

  Ninth Circuit Denies Rehearing En Banc of Case Permitting Domestic Corporate Liability Claim.

• Fourth Amendment

  United States v. Huskisson

  Seventh Circuit Holds that Evidence Gathered Through an Unlawful Search of a Home May Be Admissible Under the Independent Source Doctrine Even if Tainted Evidence Is Described in the Warrant Application.

• Arbitration Clauses

  Bigger v. Facebook, Inc.

  Seventh Circuit Holds that Arbitration-Bound Employees Cannot Be Given Notice of Collective Action Proceeding Under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

• Civil Rights

  Kollaritsch v. Michigan State University Board of Trustees

  Sixth Circuit Requires Further Harassment in Deliberate Indifference Claims.

• Criminal Procedure

  United States v. Cano

  Ninth Circuit Limits the Scope of Warrantless Cell Phone Searches at the Border.

• Statutory Interpretation

  In re: Application to Obtain Discovery for Use in Foreign Proceedings

  Sixth Circuit Holds that Private Commercial Arbitration Is a Foreign or International Tribunal.

• First Amendment

  NLRB v. International Ass’n of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, & Reinforcing Iron Workers, Local 229

  Ninth Circuit Holds that First Amendment Does Not Protect Encouraging Secondary Boycotts.

• Criminalization of Poverty

  Fowler v. Benson

  Sixth Circuit Upholds Michigan’s Driver’s License Suspension Law for Indigent Drivers Under Fourteenth Amendment.