A case in which an equally-divided Court affirmed the lower court in that spousal guarantors could not be considered “applicants” for the purposes of the protections the Equal Credit Opportunity Act provides.

A case in which the Court determined that a class action is properly certified and maintained, despite differences among the plaintiff class, if all the individual plaintiffs' cases ask the same central question and even if some plaintiffs were not injured and have no legal right to damages.

A case in which the Court held that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 did not allow the National Park Service to regulate all land physically within the boundaries of the National Park System in Alaska.

A case in which the Court determined that the passage of the 1882 Act by Congress did not diminish the original boundaries of the Omaha Indian Reservation.

A case in which the Court determined that, for the purposes of diversity jurisdiction, the citizenship of a trust is based on the citizenship of its members, which includes the beneficiaries as well as the trustees.

A case in which the Court determined that the reporting requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) preempt a Vermont state statute regarding reporting requirements as applied to a self-insured employee health plan.

A case in which the Court determined that a prior conviction of “aggravated sexual abuse” or “sexual abuse” may trigger a mandatory minimum sentence, even when the prior conviction did not involve a minor.

A case in which the Court determined that there were no extraordinary circumstances out of the Menominee Indian Tribe’s control to toll the statute of limitations from running.

A case in which the Court held that the Supreme Court’s decision in Miller v. Alabama, which prohibits sentencing schemes that impose a punishment of mandatory life without parole for juvenile offenders convicted of homicide, applied retroactively.

A case in which the Court held that the Federal Power Act (FPA) grants the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) the authority to regulate wholesale market operators’ compensation for reduction in electricity consumption, and the rule in question was not arbitrary and capricious.