Haywood v. Drown

Haywood v. Drown
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 3, 2008 Decided May 26, 2009
Full case name	Keith Haywood, Petitioner v. Curtis Drown, et al.
Docket no.	07-10374
Citations	556 U.S. 729 (more) 129 S. Ct. 2108; 173 L. Ed. 2d 920
Case history
Prior	dismissal affirmed 9 N.Y.3d 481, 881 N.E.2d 180 (2008), reversed and remanded U.S.
Holding
A state law barring state courts from hearing damages actions against corrections officers violates the Supremacy Clause by not permitting adjudication of claims under 42 USC 1983.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Case opinions
Majority	Stevens, joined by Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Alito (Part III)
Laws applied
U.S. Const. art. VI (Supremacy Clause)

Haywood v. Drown, 556 U.S. 729 (2009), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a New York law preventing state trial courts from hearing claims for money damages against prison employees whether based on federal or state law violated the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.