West v. Atkins

Holding that a state's delegation of its duty to provide medical care to prisoners rendered a contract physician a state actor

Daniels v. Williams

Holding that "the Due Process Clause [of the Fourteenth Amendment] is simply not implicated by a negligent act of an official causing unintended loss of or injury to life, liberty, or property"

Brady v. Maryland

Holding that the prosecution violates due process when it suppresses material, favorable evidence

Adickes v. Kress Co.

Holding that a private person who conspires with government actors to deprive a plaintiff of her constitutional rights acts "under color of law" for purposes of § 1983

First Options of Chi., Inc. v. Kaplan

Holding that a circuit court reviewing a district court's disposition of an arbitration award should apply "ordinary, not special, standards."

Rent-A-Ctr. v. Jackson

Holding that "an arbitration provision is severable from the remainder of the contract," even where the contract containing the arbitration provision is itself an arbitration agreement (quoting Buckeye , 546 U.S. at 445, 126 S.Ct. 1204 )

Parratt v. Taylor

Holding that a negligent prison official, in mishandling and losing a prisoner's mail, had effectuated a due process violation, but that the state's availability of a postdeprivation tort remedy cured the violation

Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill

Holding that the tenured public employee was "entitled to oral or written notice of the charges against him, an explanation of the employer's evidence, and an opportunity to present his side of the story"

Giglio v. United States

Holding that prosecution must disclose all information or material that may be used to impeach the credibility of prosecution witnesses where witness's credibility is "an important issue in the case"

Perry v. Sindermann

Holding that mutually explicit understanding could give rise to protected property interest

Section 10 - Same; vacation; grounds; rehearing

Vacating arbitration award appropriate " where the award was procured by corruption, fraud, or undue means; where there was evident partiality or corruption in the arbitrators, or either of them; where the arbitrators were guilty of misconduct in refusing to postpone the hearing, upon sufficient cause shown, or in refusing to hear evidence pertinent and material to the controversy; or of any other misbehavior by which the rights of any party have been prejudiced; or where the arbitrators exceeded their powers, or so imperfectly executed them that a mutual, final, and definite award upon the subject matter submitted was not made."

Section 3500 - Demands for production of statements and reports of witnesses

Requiring the government to produce "any statement," including testimony provided before the grand jury, only after the witness has testified on direct examination at trial

Section 201 - Bribery of public officials and witnesses

Using "proceeding" to refer to trials, hearings, or the like "before any court, any committee of either House or both Houses of Congress, or any agency, commission, or officer"

Section 220509 - Resolution of disputes