Gonzales v. Raich

Holding that because “Congress had a rational basis” for concluding that a statute implements Commerce Clause power, the statute falls within the scope of congressional “authority to ‘make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper’ to ‘regulate Commerce ... among the several States' ”

Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain

Holding that no "private cause of action" had been Congressionally authorized, and thus, plaintiff was "not entitled to a remedy"

Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Com

Holding that "an alien unlawfully in this country has no constitutional right to assert selective enforcement as a defense against his deportation"

Webster v. Doe

Holding § 701 barred statutory but not constitutional claims of discrimination

Breard v. Greene

Holding that “it is extremely doubtful that violation [of the Vienna Convention] should result in the overturning of a final judgment of conviction without some showing that the violation had an effect on the trial”

Bowen v. Mich. Academy of Family Physicians

Holding that the provision limiting review of amounts of benefit payments under the Medicare program did not bar review of the method by which such amounts were computed

Johnson v. Robison

Holding that provision barring review of "`decisions of the Administrator on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans' Administration providing benefits for veterans'" did not bar constitutional challenge

United States v. Kozminski

Holding that for purposes of prosecution under § 241 for subjecting an individual to involuntary servitude, the jury must be instructed that involuntary servitude is the compulsion of services by the use or threatened use of physical or legal coercion

U.S. v. Yousef

Holding that a U.S. nexus must be demonstrated for a federal criminal statute to apply extraterritorially, but not reaching the vessel registry issue because it was not presented

Reid v. Covert

Holding that the United States Government must abide by the Constitution when it prosecutes civilian dependents accompanying members of the armed forces overseas

Section 1605 - General exceptions to the jurisdictional immunity of a foreign state

Adopting the meaning given that term in section 3 of the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991

Section 1350 - Alien's action for tort

Granting district courts jurisdiction over "any civil action . . . for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations"

Section 1589 - Forced labor

Defining "serious harm" as that which would compel a "reasonable person" to perform or continue performing labor to avoid incurring such harm

Section 1595 - Civil remedy

Authorizing lawsuits against those who "benefit ... from participation in a [trafficking] venture"

Section 1584 - Sale into involuntary servitude

Holding persons in involuntary servitude

Section 7101 - Purposes and findings

Finding at least "700,000 persons annually, primarily women and children," trafficked worldwide, and "[a]pproximately 50,000 women and children ... trafficked into the United States each year"

Section 7102 - Definitions

Describing "sex trafficking . . . in which the person induced to perform [a commercial sex act] has not attained 18 years of age," as a "severe form[] of trafficking in persons"

Section 254d - Dismissal on motion of action against individual entitled to immunity

Incorporating VCDR

Section 254b - Privileges and immunities of mission of nonparty to Vienna Convention