Missouri v. Parker

How later courts describe this case

• holding in a postconviction relief case that "prejudicially affected" is defined as "a reasonable probability that counsel's error affected the outcome of the trial"
• holding that § 1983 preempted the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act
• motor carrier exemption applied to employee who traveled only within state but who regularly collected empty containers destined for out-of-state bottling facilities
• “Once a full record has been developed, ... the factfinder should proceed to the specific question of whether the action of the employer was discriminatory”
• “[The court] will not search the record in an effort to determine whether there exists ... evidence which might require submission of the case to a jury.”
• A document must be identified or authenticated by affidavit or sworn testimony.
• "Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs.”