Supreme Court of the United States, 1999

The Court held that the Census Act prohibits using statistical sampling to determine population for congressional apportionment, and therefore affirmed the injunction entered in the Virginia action.

Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the Court’s unanimous opinion holding that the Administrative Procedure Act’s waiver of sovereign immunity does not permit a subcontractor to enforce an equitable lien against government funds to recover losses caused by a prime contractor’s default.

Justice Ginsburg, writing for eight Justices, held that the Warsaw Convention bars personal injury claims under local law for occurrences within its substantive scope even when the passenger cannot satisfy the Convention's conditions for recovery.

The Court held that the Warsaw Convention exclusively governs personal-injury claims arising within its substantive scope, even when the Convention itself affords no recovery because a claim fails one of Article 17's liability conditions.

The Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice Rehnquist joined by Justices O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas, held that respondents lacked a legitimate expectation of privacy in an apartment they briefly used solely to package cocaine and therefore suffered no violation of their Fourth Amendment rights.

The Court unanimously held that the collective-bargaining agreement did not clearly and unmistakably waive employees’ rights to a judicial forum for federal employment-discrimination claims.