Today, on the last day of the 2024-2025 term, the Supreme Court of the United States issued five decisions:
Trump v. CASA, Inc., No. 24A884: This case addresses whether district courts had the authority to issue...more
6/30/2025
/ Appointments Clause ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Convention Against Torture (CAT) ,
Deportation ,
DNA ,
Due Process ,
Exculpatory Evidence ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Communications Commission v Consumers Research ,
First Amendment ,
Fourteenth Amendment ,
Free Speech ,
Free Speech Coalition Inc v Paxton ,
Gutierrez v Saenz ,
Hewitt v United States ,
Injunctions ,
Judicial Authority ,
Kennedy v Braidwood Management Inc ,
Mahmoud v Taylor ,
Medicaid ,
Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic ,
Non-Delegation Doctrine ,
Religious Beliefs ,
Riley v Bondi ,
SCOTUS ,
Standing ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Torture ,
Trafficking ,
Trump v CASA
On June 20, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued six decisions:
Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 24-7: This case addresses fuel producers’ Article III standing to...more
6/24/2025
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Article III ,
Certiorari ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Diamond Alternative Energy LLC v Environmental Protection Agency ,
Discrimination ,
Due Process ,
Esteras v United States ,
Federal Sentencing Guidelines ,
Fifth Amendment ,
Food and Drug Administration v RJ Reynolds Vapor Co ,
Fuld v Palestine Liberation Organization ,
Hobbs Act ,
Judicial Authority ,
Judicial Review ,
McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates Inc v McKesson Corporation ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
SCOTUS ,
Standing ,
Stanley v City of Sanford Florida ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
TCPA ,
Title I
The Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in four cases today:
Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, No. 24-568: This case involves an Illinois law that required mail-in ballots to be counted as long...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in 15 cases:
Waetzig v. Halliburton Energy Solutions, No. 23-971: This case concerns the intersection between Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41, which...more
10/7/2024
/ Article III ,
Certiorari ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Excessive Force ,
FCC ,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA) ,
Fourth Amendment ,
Fraud ,
Hobbs Act ,
Mexico ,
Pleading Standards ,
Prison Litigation Reform Act ,
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCCA) ,
SCOTUS ,
Standing ,
TCPA ,
Title VII
On Thursday, June 13, the Supreme Court of the United States issued three decisions:
FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, No. 23-235: This case involves an attempt to rescind the Food and Drug Administration’s...more
6/17/2024
/ Abortion ,
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v Food and Drug Administration ,
Article III ,
Due Process ,
Employment Policies ,
First Amendment ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Lanham Act ,
NLRB ,
Notice Requirements ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Removal Proceedings ,
SCOTUS ,
Standing ,
Starbucks ,
Starbucks Corp. v McKinney ,
Trademarks ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
USPTO
On March 19, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States issued two decisions:
FBI v. Fikre, 22-1178: This case addresses when the “voluntary cessation of a challenged practice” renders a lawsuit moot. Yonas Fikre, a...more
3/21/2024
/ Federal Bureau of Investigation v Fikre ,
Federal Jurisdiction ,
Immigrants ,
Injunctive Relief ,
International Travel ,
Migrants ,
Mootness ,
Removal Orders ,
SCOTUS ,
Standing ,
Tourists ,
Travel Restrictions ,
Visas ,
Wilkinson v Garland
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued one decision:
Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, No. 22-429: Deborah Laufer sued hundreds of hotels under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §...more
12/6/2023
/ Acheson Hotels LLC v Laufer ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Article III ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Mootness ,
Public Accommodation ,
SCOTUS ,
Standing ,
Statutory Violations ,
Title III ,
Website Accessibility ,
Websites
The Supreme Court of the United States issued 3 decisions today:
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Coughlin,No. 22-227: This statutory interpretation and federal Indian law case addressed the...more
6/16/2023
/ Bankruptcy Code ,
Chapter 13 ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Criminal Procedure ,
Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) ,
Minor Children ,
Native American Issues ,
Remedies ,
SCOTUS ,
Sovereign Immunity ,
Standing ,
State Sovereignty ,
Tribal Loans ,
Venue
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in two cases:
Carnahan v. Maloney, No. 22-425: This is an Article III standing case arising from the federal statute, 5 U.S.C. § 2954, that directs...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in one case:
Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, No. 22-429: This case involves the scope of Article III standing to enforce the requirements of the Americans...more
Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, No. 21-463: Abortion providers brought a pre-enforcement challenge to a recently enacted Texas statute that “prohibits physicians from ‘knowingly perform[ing] or induc[ing] an abortion on a...more
TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, No. 20-297: This standing case concerns a class of individuals that sued TransUnion, a credit reporting agency, under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The allegations concerned TransUnion’s add-on...more
California v. Texas, Nos. 19-840, 19-1019: The Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, as it is commonly known, requires individuals to maintain a minimum level of health insurance coverage. As originally passed, the Act...more
6/18/2021
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Alien Tort Statute ,
Article III ,
California v Texas ,
Cargill Inc. v Doe I ,
First Amendment ,
Foster Children ,
Free Exercise Clause ,
Health Insurance ,
Human Trafficking ,
Individual Mandate ,
Nestle USA Inc. v Doe I ,
Same-Sex Marriage ,
SCOTUS ,
Slavery ,
Social Services ,
Standing
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following decision:
Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, No. 19-968: Petitioner Chike Uzuegbunam, while attending Georgia Gwinnett College – a public college – sought to...more
TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, No. 20-297: Whether either Article III or Rule 23 permits a damages class action where the vast majority of the class suffered no actual injury, let alone an injury anything like what the class...more
Thole v. U. S. Bank N. A., No. 17-1712: Plaintiffs-petitioners James Thole and Sherry Smith are two retired participants in respondent U.S. Bank N.A.’s defined-benefit plan. They brought a putative class action under ERISA...more
6/3/2020
/ Appointments Clause ,
Arbitration ,
Article III ,
Convention Against Torture (CAT) ,
Deportation ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
Habeas Corpus ,
New York Convention ,
Prisoners ,
Puerto Rico ,
Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) ,
Standing ,
Substantial Evidence Standard ,
Thole v U.S. Bank
This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in the following cases:
California v. Texas, No. 19-840; Texas v. California, No. 19-1019: A petition for a writ of certiorari and conditional...more
3/2/2020
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 ,
Article III ,
Certiorari ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Due Process ,
Federal Sentencing Guidelines ,
FOIA ,
Mens Rea ,
SCOTUS ,
Sentencing Enhancements ,
Severability Doctrine ,
Standing
The Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions in five cases on June 23, 2016:
Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, No. 14-981: Petitioner Abigail Fisher applied for admission to the University of Texas at...more
6/27/2016
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Affirmative Action ,
Arbitrary and Capricious ,
Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 ,
Bernard v Minnesota ,
Beylund v Levi ,
Birchfield v North Dakota ,
Blood Tests ,
Breathalyzer ,
College Admissions ,
DACA ,
DAPA ,
Dollar General ,
Dollar General Co v Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians ,
Drunk Driving ,
DUI ,
Equal Protection ,
Federal Sentencing Guidelines ,
Felons ,
Fisher v University of Texas ,
Fourth Amendment ,
Immigration Reform ,
Implied Consent ,
Jurisdiction ,
Likelihood of Success ,
Mathis v US ,
Native American Issues ,
Negligence ,
Notice and Comment ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Race Discrimination ,
Reverse Discrimination ,
Search & Seizure ,
Search Incident to Arrest ,
Sentencing Enhancements ,
Sexual Assault ,
Standing ,
Subsidies ,
Take Care Clause ,
Tribal Courts ,
US v Texas ,
Vicarious Liability ,
Warrantless Searches