Resolution Impeaching Samuel B. Kent, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, for high crimes and misdemeanors, US House of Representatives, June 9, 2009 [charging that Kent had "engaged in conduct ... incompatible with...

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Indiana State Police Pension Trust, et al. v. Chrysler LLC, et al., US Supreme Court, June 9, 2009 [vacating a temporary stay issued by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the grounds that the petitioners did not meet their burden of...

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Boyle v. US, US Supreme Court, June 8, 2009 [that an organization does not need to have an "ascertainable structure beyond that inherent in the pattern of racketeering activity in which it engages" to be considered an "enterprise" within the...

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Republic of Iraq v. Beaty, US Supreme Court, June 8, 2009 [holding that Iraq has sovereign immunity from US court jurisdiction in cases alleging mistreatment during the Saddam Hussein regime, at which time the country was designated as a sponsor...

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