Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (decided June 13, 1966): asking questions of detained witness without advising of right to remain silent violates Fifth Amendment guarantee against self incrimination (Congress tried to abrogate this holding by statute in 1968, but the statute was chipped away at and finally struck down in Dickerson v. United States, 2000) (Miranda was re-tried in Arizona court without the invalid confession and convicted; charge was rape and kidnapping, 104 Ariz. 174)
Romano v. Oklahoma, 512 U.S. 1 (decided June 13, 1994): jury can consider defendant’s previous death sentence (for a concomitant killing) in determining sentence for murder
ZF Automotive US v. Luxshare, Ltd., 596 U.S. 619 (decided June 13, 2022): overseas arbitration proceedings are not “foreign tribunals” for which discovery can be sought under 28 U.S.C. §1782
United States v. Bryant, 579 U.S. 140 (decided June 13, 2016): upholding 18 U.S.C. §117(a), which requires increased penalty for domestic violence on Native American Reservations if two previous convictions in Native American courts even if not represented by counsel; Sixth Amendment right to counsel does not apply in Native American courts for crimes with penalties of less than one year, 25 U.S.C. §1302(c)(2), and procedural protections of Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 were adequate
Kemp v. United States, 596 U.S. 528 (decided June 13, 2022): instead of appealing, defendant must get relief from final judgment under F.R.C.P. 60(b)(1) where court makes procedural mistake even though mistake not obvious (Eleventh Circuit had miscalculated time after drug conviction to seek cert) (and here defendant had missed the applicable deadline for a 60(b)(1) motion) (in the Court’s historical review of postjudgment relief it uses the evocative phrase, “statutory language obviously transplanted from another legal source will often bring the old soil with it”)
Nyquist v. Mauclet, 432 U.S. 1 (decided June 13, 1977): denying college financial assistance to resident aliens violates Equal Protection
Puerto Rico v. Franklin California Tax-Free Trust, 579 U.S. 115 (decided June 13, 2016): Puerto Rico statute allowing public utilities to structure their debts preempted by federal Bankruptcy Code (Puerto Rico was undergoing a fiscal crisis and found it had been singled out in a mysterious change to the Bankruptcy Code which of course it had no voice in; see John Oliver’s segment on this, https://youtu.be/Tt-mpuR_QHQ , starting at 9:00)
Montana v. Egelhoff, 518 U.S. 37 (decided June 13, 1996): Due Process not offended by state law barring defendant from arguing he was intoxicated as a defense to mental state required for crime (here, murder by gunshot wound) (his blood alcohol was 0.36% even some hours after the incident! 0.5% will kill you)
Katzenbach v. Morgan, 384 U.S. 641 (decided June 13, 1966): Voting Rights Act requiring everyone with a sixth grade education to be allowed to vote superseded New York law requiring proficiency in English (this would have applied specifically to my grandfather, who went up to sixth grade in Italy but was never functionally literate in English; his career as a groundskeeper started in the Depression-era Works Progress Administration under FDR but by the time I got to know him he always voted Republican)
Gojack v. United States, 384 U.S. 702 (decided June 13, 1966): contempt against person who spoke back to HUAC and didn’t answer questions reversed because HUAC never formally authorized investigation into this area (“Communist Party activity in the field of labor”)
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