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Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri from 2023-12-06T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in transfer decisions absent a separate court determination that the transfer decisi...

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Moore v. United States from 2023-12-05T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the 16th Amendment authorizes Congress to tax unrealized sums without apportionment among the states.

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Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P. from 2023-12-04T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, a release that extingui...

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Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy from 2023-11-29T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the statutory scheme that empowers the Securities and Exchange Commission violates the Seventh Amendment, the nondelegation doctrine, or Article II of ...

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McElrath v. Georgia from 2023-11-28T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits a second prosecution for a crime of which a defendant was previously acquitted.

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Wilkinson v. Garland from 2023-11-28T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether an agency determination that a given set of established facts does not rise to the statutory standard of “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship” i...

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Brown v. United States from 2023-11-27T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the"serious drug offense"definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act incorporates the federal drug schedules that were in effect at the time of the fed...

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Rudisill v. McDonough from 2023-11-08T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a veteran who has served two separate and distinct periods of qualifying service is entitled to receive all of the education benefits at once from prog...

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United States v. Rahimi from 2023-11-07T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic-violence restraining orders, violates the Second Amend...

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Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz from 2023-11-06T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign immunity of the United States.

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Vidal v. Elster from 2023-11-01T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the refusal to register a trademark under 15 U.S.C. § 1052(c) violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment when the mark contains criticism o...

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O'Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier from 2023-10-31T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a public official engages in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official’s personal social media account, w...

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Lindke v. Freed from 2023-10-31T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a public official’s social media activity can constitute state action only if the official used the account to perform a governmental duty or under the...

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Culley v. Marshall from 2023-10-30T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide what test a district court must apply when determining whether and when a post-deprivation hearing is required under the Due Process Clause.

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Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP from 2023-10-11T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether South Carolina’s congressional redistricting plan constitutes an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

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Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC from 2023-10-10T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether, under federal admiralty law, a choice-of-law clause in a maritime contract can be rendered unenforceable if enforcement is contrary to the “strong pub...

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Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC from 2023-10-10T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether, under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, a whistleblower must prove his employer acted with a “retaliatory intent” as part of his case in chief to succee...

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Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer from 2023-10-04T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a civil rights “tester” has Article III standing to challenge under the Americans with Disabilities Act a hotel’s failure to provide disability accessi...

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America from 2023-10-03T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the funding scheme for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional.

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Pulsifer v. United States from 2023-10-02T14:00

A case in which the Court will clarify what qualifies a defendant for prison sentence below the statutory minimum under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) as amended by the First Step Act of 2018.

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Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota from 2023-04-26T14:00

A case in which the Court held that taking and selling a home to satisfy a debt to the government, and keeping the surplus value as a windfall, violates the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause.

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Yegiazaryan v. Smagin from 2023-04-25T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a foreign plaintiff with no alleged connection to the United States can state a cognizable claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) ...

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Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Coughlin from 2023-04-24T14:00

A case in which the Court held the Bankruptcy Code unequivocally expresses Congress’s intent to abrogate the sovereign immunity of Native American tribes.

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Dupree v. Younger from 2023-04-24T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a party need not reassert in a post-trial motion a purely legal issue rejected at summary judgment in order to preserve it for appeal.

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Counterman v. Colorado from 2023-04-19T14:00

A case in which the Court held that, to establish that a statement is a"true threat"unprotected by the First Amendment, the government must show that the speaker subjectively knew or intended the t...

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Groff v. DeJoy from 2023-04-18T14:00

A case in which the Court held that Title VII requires an employer that denies a religious accommodation to show that the burden of granting an accommodation would result in substantial increased c...

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U.S. ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc. from 2023-04-18T14:00

A case in which the Court held the scienter element of a claim under the False Claims Act pertains to the defendant’s contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its...

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Slack Technologies v. Pirani from 2023-04-17T14:00

A case in which the Court held that Sections 11 and 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 require plaintiffs to plead and prove that they bought shares registered under the registration statement ...

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Pugin v. Garland from 2023-04-17T14:00

A case in which the Court held that Virginia’s offense of accessory after the fact to a felony is an offense relating to obstruction of justice under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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Samia v. United States from 2023-03-29T14:00

A case in which the Court held that admitting a codefendant’s redacted out-of-court confession that immediately inculpates a defendant based on context does not violate the Confrontation Clause of ...

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Polselli v. Internal Revenue Service from 2023-03-29T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the exception in I.R.C. § 7609(c)(2)(D)(i) to the notice requirements for an Internal Revenue Service summons on third-party recordkeepers applies to a summons f...

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Smith v. United States from 2023-03-28T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district.

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Lora v. United States from 2023-03-28T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a federal criminal sentencing law gives the court flexibility to decide between consecutive and concurrent sentences for a man who was convicted and sentenced fo...

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Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi from 2023-03-27T14:00

A case in which the Court held that two of Amgen’s patents do not satisfy the Patent Act’s enablement clause because they do not describe the invention with sufficient particularity that would enab...

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United States v. Hansen from 2023-03-27T14:00

A case in which the Court held that 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) and (B)(i)’s prohibition against encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain for...

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Jack Daniel's Properties v. VIP Products LLC from 2023-03-22T14:00

A case in which the Court held that humorous use of another’s trademark as one’s own on a commercial product is subject to the Lanham Act’s likelihood-of-confusion analysis.

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Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. from 2023-03-21T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the Lanham Act does not permit the owner of a U.S.-registered trademark to recover damages for the use of that trademark when the infringement occurred outside t...

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Coinbase v. Bielski from 2023-03-21T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a non-frivolous appeal of the denial of a motion to compel arbitration requires the district court to stay its proceedings while the interlocutory appeal on the ...

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Arizona v. Navajo Nation from 2023-03-20T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the 1868 treaty establishing the Navajo Reservation reserved necessary water to accomplish the purpose of the Navajo Reservation but did not require the United S...

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New York v. New Jersey from 2023-03-01T14:00

A case in which the Court held that New Jersey can unilaterally withdraw from an interstate compact with New York that created a waterfront commission with police power.

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Department of Education v. Brown from 2023-02-28T14:00

A case in which the Court was asked to consider a challenge to the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan.

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Biden v. Nebraska from 2023-02-28T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the Secretary of Education does not have the authority under the HEROES Act to cancel roughly $430 billion in student debt.

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Dubin v. United States from 2023-02-27T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a person commits “aggravated identity theft,” if he “uses” another person’s means of identification “in relation to” a predicate offense when the use is at the c...

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Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh from 2023-02-22T14:00

A case in which the Court held an internet platform does not “knowingly” provide substantial assistance under 18 U.S.C. § 2333 merely because it allegedly could have taken more “meaningful” or “agg...

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Gonzalez v. Google LLC from 2023-02-21T14:00

A case in which the Court was asked to decide whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields internet platforms from liability when their algorithms target users and recommend a thir...

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Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, et al. from 2023-01-18T14:00

A case in which the Court held that an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit seeking compensatory damages for the denial of a free and appropriate education may proceed without exhausting the adm...

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Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States from 2023-01-17T14:00

A case in which the Court held that U.S. district courts may exercise subject-matter jurisdiction over criminal prosecutions against foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalities under 18 U.S.C. §...

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Santos-Zacaria v. Garland from 2023-01-17T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a federal immigration law does not bar a federal court of appeals from reviewing an immigrant’s claim that the Board of Immigration Appeals had engaged in imperm...

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Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. from 2023-01-11T14:00

A case in which the Court held the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA)’s general grant of jurisdiction to the federal courts over claims against the Financial Ov...

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Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 2023-01-10T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the National Labor Relations Act does not preempt a state-court lawsuit against a union for intentionally destroying an employer’s property during a labor dispute.

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The Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Federal Labor Relations Authority from 2023-01-09T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which empowers the Federal Labor Relations Authority to regulate the labor practices of federal agencies, also empowers it ...

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In re Grand Jury from 2023-01-09T14:00

A case in which the Court was asked to decide whether a communication involving both legal and non-legal advice is protected by attorney-client privilege when obtaining or providing legal advice wa...

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Moore v. Harper from 2022-12-07T14:00

A case in which the Court rejected the “Independent State Legislature” (ISL) theory—that only a state legislature has the power to regulate federal elections, notwithstanding state courts or consti...

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U.S., ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources from 2022-12-06T14:00

A case in which the Court held that when an individual brings a lawsuit on behalf of the government alleging fraud on the United States, the government has the power to dismiss the lawsuit whenever...

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Bartenwerfer v. Buckley from 2022-12-06T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a bankruptcy debtor can be held liable for another person’s fraud, even when they were not aware of the fraud.

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MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC from 2022-12-05T14:00

A case in which the Court held that Bankruptcy Code Section 363(m) does not limit the jurisdiction of appellate courts over an order approving the sale of a debtor’s assets but instead simply limit...

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303 Creative LLC v. Elenis from 2022-12-05T14:00

A case in which the Court held that applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. ​​

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Wilkins v. United States from 2022-11-30T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the Quiet Title Act’s statute of limitations is a nonjurisdictional claim-processing rule.

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Vega v. Tekoh from 2022-04-20T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a plaintiff may state a claim for relief against a law enforcement officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on the officer’s failure to provide Miranda war...

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Kemp v. United States from 2022-04-19T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(1) authorizes relief based on a district court’s error of law.

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George v. McDonough from 2022-04-19T14:00

A case in which the Court will clarify what “clear and unmistakable error” means in the context of a veteran’s challenge of a denial of benefits by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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United States v. Washington from 2022-04-18T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a state worker’s compensation law that applies exclusively to certain federal workers violates the principle of intergovernmental immunity.

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Siegel v. Fitzgerald from 2022-04-18T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act violates the uniformity requirement of the Constitution's Bankruptcy Clause by increasing quarterly fees solely in distric...

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Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana from 2022-03-30T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claims, in...

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Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety from 2022-03-29T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide Congress has the power to abrogate a state’s sovereign immunity from lawsuit pursuant to its constitutional war powers.

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Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon from 2022-03-28T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether an airline employee who works as a ramp agent supervisor is a “transportation worker” and therefore not required to arbitrate her wage dispute with the...

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LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company from 2022-03-28T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a train that makes a temporary stop in a railyard as part of its unitary journey in interstate commerce is “in use” and therefore subject to the Locomo...

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ZF Automotive US, Inc. v. Luxshare, Ltd. from 2022-03-23T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a federal law that gives district courts the discretion to order someone in that district to give testimony or produce documents “for use in a foreign ...

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Golan v. Saada from 2022-03-22T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether, under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, courts are required to consider all measures that might mitigate the...

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Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. from 2022-03-21T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the arbitration-specific requirement that the proponent of a contractual waiver defense prove prejudice violates the Supreme Court’s instruction that l...

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Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP from 2022-03-21T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether North Carolina legislators have a right to intervene in a lawsuit to defend a state voter-ID law.

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Egbert v. Boule from 2022-03-02T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether an individual can sue federal officers for First Amendment retaliation claims or for allegedly violating the individual’s Fourth Amendment rights while...

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Ruan v. United States from 2022-03-01T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a physician may be convicted of unlawful distribution under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) even if he “reasonably believed” or “subjectively intended” that his ...

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Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan v. DaVita, Inc. from 2022-03-01T14:00

A case in which the Court will resolve a dispute over the interpretation of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, which prohibits health plans from treating individuals with kidney failure differently ...

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West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency from 2022-02-28T14:00

A case in which the Court will consider whether the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in virtually any industry, so long as it considers cost, n...

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Arizona v. City and County of San Francisco from 2022-02-23T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether states with interests should be permitted to intervene to defend a rule when the United States ceases to defend it.

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Denezpi v. United States from 2022-02-22T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether an individual can be prosecuted in the Court of Indian Offenses and also in federal court for the same offense without violating the Constitution’s Dou...

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Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas from 2022-02-22T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act provides the Pueblo with sovereign authority to regulate non-pro...

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Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate from 2022-01-19T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide (1) whether appellees have standing to challenge the statutory loan-repayment limit of 52 U.S.C. 30116(j); and (2) whether the loan-repayment limit violates th...

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Concepcion v. United States from 2022-01-19T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding whether to “impose a reduced sentence” on an individual ...

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Shurtleff v. Boston from 2022-01-18T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a city’s refusal to fly a private religious organization’s flag, which depicts a cross, on a city flagpole violates the organization’s First Amendment ...

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Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation from 2022-01-18T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide what law a federal court should apply to state law claims brought under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

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Boechler, P.C. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 2022-01-12T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the 30-day time limit to file a petition for review in the Tax Court of a notice of determination from the commissioner of internal revenue in 26 U.S.C...

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Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez from 2022-01-11T14:00

One of two cases on the docket for this term in which the Court will decide whether noncitizens who have spent more than six months in immigration detention awaiting resolution of their deportation...

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Garland v. Gonzalez from 2022-01-11T14:00

One of two cases on the docket for this term in which the Court will decide whether noncitizens who have spent more than six months in immigration detention awaiting resolution of their deportation...

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Gallardo v. Marstiller from 2022-01-10T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the federal Medicaid Act provides for a state Medicaid program to recover reimbursement for Medicaid’s payment of a beneficiary’s past medical expenses...

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National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration from 2022-01-07T14:00

A case in which the Court blocked the Occupational Safety&Health Administration’s challenged rule mandating that employers with at least 100 employees require covered workers to receive a COVID–19 ...

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Biden v. Missouri from 2022-01-07T14:00

A case in which the Court allowed the Biden administration to enforce nationwide a rule requiring health care workers at facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs to be full...

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Shinn v. Ramirez from 2021-12-08T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the rule in Martinez v. Ryan renders the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act inapplicable to a federal court’s merits review of a claim for h...

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Carson v. Makin from 2021-12-08T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a state law prohibiting students participating in an otherwise generally available student-aid program from choosing to use their aid to attend schools...

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United States v. Taylor from 2021-12-07T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)’s definition of “crime of violence” excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed through an attempted threat a...

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Patel v. Garland from 2021-12-06T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) preserves the jurisdiction of federal courts to review a nondiscretionary determination that a noncitizen is ineligible for...

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Hughes v. Northwestern University from 2021-12-06T14:00

A case in which the Court held that an assessment of fiduciaries'duty of prudence under ERISA requires considering whether they monitored all plan investments and removed imprudent ones.

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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization from 2021-12-01T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.

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American Hospital Association v. Becerra from 2021-11-30T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s decision to lower drug reimbursement rates for certain hospitals based on acquisition costs is a rea...

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Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C. from 2021-11-30T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the statutes that incorporate its remedies for victims of discrim...

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Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation from 2021-11-29T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Department of Health and Human Services followed the correct procedures when it promulgated a rule changing the way it calculates Medicare reimburs...

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City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising of Texas Inc. from 2021-11-10T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Austin city code’s distinction between on-premise signs, which may be digitized, and off-premise signs, which may not, is a facially unconstitution...

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Ramirez v. Collier from 2021-11-09T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide what kind of aid a spiritual adviser can and cannot provide during an execution.

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United States v. Vaello-Madero from 2021-11-09T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether Congress violated the equal-protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment by establishing Supplemental Security Income—a progra...

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Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes&Mauritz, L.P. from 2021-11-08T14:00

A case in which the Court held that lack of either factual or legal knowledge can excuse an inaccuracy in a copyright registration under 17 U. S. C. §411(b)(1)(A)’s safe harbor.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fazaga from 2021-11-08T14:00

A case in which the Court held that Section 1806(f) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 does not displace the state-secrets privilege.

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New York State Rifle&Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen from 2021-11-03T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether New York's denial of petitioners'applications for concealed-carry licenses for self-defense violated the Second Amendment.

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Badgerow v. Walters from 2021-11-02T14:00

A case in which the Court held that federal courts do not have subject-matter jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an arbitration award under Sections 9 and 10 of the Federal Arbitration Act when the ...

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Houston Community College System v. Wilson from 2021-11-02T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the First Amendment restricts the authority of an elected body to issue a censure resolution in response to a member’s speech.

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United States v. Texas from 2021-11-01T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the United States may sue the State of Texas in federal court to prohibit enforcement of an unconstitutional abortion law.

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Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson from 2021-11-01T14:00

A case in which the Court allowed abortion providers to pursue a pre-enforcement action against certain defendants but not others over a state law that prohibits the exercise of a constitutional ri...

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Babcock v. Kijakazi from 2021-10-13T14:00

A case in which the Court held a civil service pension received for federal civilian employment as a “military technician (dual status)” is not “a payment based wholly on service as a member of a u...

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United States v. Tsarnaev from 2021-10-13T14:00

A case in which the Court reinstated the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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Thompson v. Clark from 2021-10-12T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a plaintiff who seeks to bring a Section 1983 action alleging unreasonable seizure pursuant to legal process need only show, as a threshold matter, that the crim...

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Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center from 2021-10-12T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a state attorney general should be permitted to intervene after a federal court of appeals invalidates a state statute and no other state actor will de...

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United States v. Zubaydah from 2021-10-06T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in rejecting the United States’s assertion of the state-secrets privilege based on the court’s own assessme...

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Brown v. Davenport from 2021-10-05T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide how the “harmless error” standard of review applies when a criminal defendant is seeking federal post-conviction relief.

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Hemphill v. New York from 2021-10-05T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a criminal defendant, whose argumentation or introduction of evidence at trial “opens the door” to the admission of responsive evidence that would otherwise be b...

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Wooden v. United States from 2021-10-04T14:00

A case in which the Court held that, under the Armed Career Criminal Act, offenses that were committed as part of a single criminal spree but sequentially in time were not “committed on occasions d...

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Mississippi v. Tennessee from 2021-10-04T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the judicial remedy of equitable apportionment is appropriate to resolve a dispute over groundwater rights between Mississippi and Tennessee.

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Terry v. United States from 2021-05-04T14:00

A case in which the Court held that pre-August 3, 2010, crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) do not have a “covered offense” under Section 404 of the First Step Act and thus are...

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PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey from 2021-04-28T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the Natural Gas Act delegates to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission certificate-holders the authority to exercise the federal government’s eminent-domain power...

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Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. from 2021-04-28T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the First Amendment limits but does not entirely prohibit regulation of off-campus student speech by public school officials.

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United States v. Palomar-Santiago from 2021-04-27T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a defendant who has been charged with unlawful reentry into the United States after removal and is seeking dismissal of the charge must prove each of the require...

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HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association from 2021-04-27T14:00

A case in which the Court held that, in order to qualify for a hardship exemption under Section 7545(o)(9)(B)(i) of the Renewable Fuel Standards, a small refinery need not receive uninterrupted, co...

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Guam v. United States from 2021-04-26T14:00

A case in which the Court held that Guam can pursue a contribution action against the U.S. Navy for its role in the environmental hazards arising from the Navy’s landfill on the island of Guam, kno...

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Americans for Prosperity v. Bonta from 2021-04-26T14:00

A case in which the Court struck down a policy of the California attorney general’s office requiring charities to disclose the names and addresses of their major donors as violating the First Amend...

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Americans for Prosperity v. Bonta from 2021-04-26T14:00

A case in which the Court struck down a policy of the California attorney general’s office requiring charities to disclose the names and addresses of their major donors as violating the First Amend...

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Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc. from 2021-04-21T14:00

A case in which the Court upheld, with limitations, the doctrine of assignor estoppel in patent infringement cases where the defendant asserts the defense of invalidity.

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San Antonio v. Hotels.com, L.P. from 2021-04-21T14:00

A case in which the Court held that district courts do not have the discretion to deny or reduce appellate costs deemed “taxable” in district court under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 39(e).

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Greer v. United States from 2021-04-20T14:00

A case in which the Court held that under 18 U.S. C. §922(g)(1), to obtain plain-error relief, a defendant must make a sufficient argument or representation on appeal that he would have presented e...

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United States v. Gary from 2021-04-20T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitled to plai...

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Sanchez v. Mayorkas from 2021-04-19T14:00

A case in which the Court held that under 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(f)(4), a grant of temporary protected status does not constitute an “admission” into the United States and thus does not authorize eligibl...

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Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation from 2021-04-19T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the Alaska Native regional and village corporations established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act are “Indian Tribe[s]” for purposes of the Cor...

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National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston from 2021-03-31T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)’s prohibition on compensation for college athletes violates federal antitrust laws.

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TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez from 2021-03-30T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a subset of a class of plaintiffs lacked Article III standing to sue a credit reporting agency because they did not suffer an injury comparable to that of the cl...

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System from 2021-03-29T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a defendant in a securities class action has the burden of production and also the burden of persuasion to rebut the so-called Basic presumption.

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Caniglia v. Strom from 2021-03-24T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement does not extend to the home.

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United States v. Cooley from 2021-03-23T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a police officer for a Native American tribe has the authority to detain and search a non-tribe member within a reservation on suspicion of violating a state or ...

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Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid from 2021-03-22T14:00

A case in which the Court held a California regulation granting labor organizations a “right to take access” to an agricultural employer’s property to solicit support for unionization constitutes a...

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Carr v. Saul from 2021-03-03T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a person seeking disability benefits under the Social Security Act does not forfeit their ability to challenge the appointment of an administrative law judge if ...

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Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee from 2021-03-02T14:00

A case in which the Court upheld Arizona’s policy of not counting provisional ballots cast in person on Election Day outside of the voter’s designated precinct and Arizona’s law permitting only cer...

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United States v. Arthrex, Inc. from 2021-03-01T14:00

A case in which the Court will decide whether the appointment of administrative patent judges by the Secretary of Commerce violates the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

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Lange v. California from 2021-02-24T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the exigent circumstances exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement is not categorically triggered when police are pursuing a suspect whom they bel...

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Garland v. Dai from 2021-02-23T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a court of appeals cannot presume that an immigrant’s testimony is credible and true simply because an immigration judge or the Board of Immigration Appeals did ...

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Garland v. Dai from 2021-02-23T14:00

A case in which the Court held that a court of appeals cannot presume that an immigrant’s testimony is credible and true simply because an immigration judge or the Board of Immigration Appeals did ...

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Florida v. Georgia from 2021-02-22T14:00

A case in which the Court held that Florida could not show that it Georgia had caused harm to its oyster fisheries and thus was not entitled to equitable or injunctive relief.

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Chiafalo v. Washington from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the Constitution does not prohibit Washington's “faithless elector” law, which requires presidential electors to vote the way state law directs.

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Colorado Department of State v. Baca from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court upheld as constitutional a Colorado law that prohibits so-called “faithless” electors from casting their votes in the Electoral College.

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Trump v. Vance from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that Article II and the Supremacy Clause neither categorically preclude, nor require a heightened standard for, the issuance of a state criminal subpoena to a sitting...

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Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Cases in which the Court held that while the Constitution does not prohibit congressional subpoenas issued to the sitting President, the courts below did not adequately weigh the separation-of-powe...

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McGirt v. Oklahoma from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that parts of eastern Oklahoma are an Indian reservation subject to exclusive federal jurisdiction for certain crimes under the Indian Major Crimes Act.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the First Amendment’s religion clauses prevent civil courts from adjudicating employment-discrimination claims brought by an employee against her religious emplo...

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Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Inc. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that a provision of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 creating an exception to the prohibition on automated calls for government debt collection calls vio...

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Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the federal government acted properly when it added extensive exemptions to regulations requiring employers to include contraceptive coverage in employee health ...

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United States Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that a law conditioning federal funding to foreign affiliates of an American organization on those organizations' express policies on prostitution and sex trafficking...

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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the addition by an online business of a generic top-level domain (“.com”) to an otherwise generic term can create a protectable trademark if the composite term i...

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June Medical Services LLC v. Russo from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court reversed a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upholding Louisiana’s law requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at...

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Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the Securities and Exchange Commission may seek and obtain disgorgement from a court as “equitable relief” for a securities law violation, subject to certain res...

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Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the vesting of substantial executive authority in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency led by a single director, violates the separati...

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Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that 8 U.S.C. § 1252(e)(2) as applied to the respondent Thuraissigiam does not violate the Suspension Clause of the Constitution.

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Nasrallah v. Barr from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the federal courts have jurisdiction to review an administrative agency’s factual findings underlying denials of withholding (and deferral) of removal relief, no...

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Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that a dismissal without prejudice for failure to state a claim counts as a strike under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), which bars inmates fro...

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United States v. Sineneng-Smith from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the Ninth Circuit’s decision below was an abuse of discretion because it considered and ruled on an issue not raised by the parties.

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Opati v. Republic of Sudan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) applies retroactively, thereby permitting recovery of punitive damages against foreign states for terrorist activitie...

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United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the U.S. Forest Service has the authority to grant rights-of-way under the Mineral Leasing Act through lands traversed by the Appalachian Trail within national f...

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Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held a Montana state law that provides funding for education but excludes religious education options violates the Free Exercise Clause of the federal Constitution.

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GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards does not prohibit the application of domestic equitable estoppel doctrine to allow a...

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Shular v. United States from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the Armed Career Criminal Act’s “serious drug offense” definition requires only that a state offense involve the conduct specified in the statute; it does not re...

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Babb v. Wilkie from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the federal-sector provision of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 demands that personnel actions be untainted by any consideration of age, but but...

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Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that under Section 35 of the Lanham Act, a plaintiff does not need to show willful infringement to receive an award of an infringer’s profits for a violation of Secti...

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Kelly v. United States from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that Baroni and Kelly, who executed the New Jersey “Bridgegate” political retribution scheme against Fort Lee’s mayor, did not violate the federal-program fraud or wi...

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Lucky Brand Dungarees Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Group Inc. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that because the trademark action at issue challenged different conduct—and raised different claims—from an earlier action between the parties, Marcel cannot preclude...

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Thole v. U.S. Bank, N.A. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that an ERISA plan participant lacks judicial standing to seek injunctive relief or restoration of plan losses caused by fiduciary breach if he cannot demonstrate ind...

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Monasky v. Taglieri from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that a child’s “habitual residence” under the Hague Convention depends on the totality of the circumstances specific to the case, not categorical requirements such as...

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McKinney v. Arizona from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that a state court of appeals, not a jury, can reweigh aggravating and mitigating circumstances on habeas corpus review in death penalty cases.

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Maine Community Health Options v. United States from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the federal government has an obligation to pay the insurance carriers in this case for losses incurred under the "Risk Corridors" program of the Affordable Care...

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Holguin-Hernandez v. United States from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that a criminal defendant's district-court argument for a specific sentence preserved his claim on appeal that the sentence imposed was unreasonably long.

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Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that 35 U.S.C. §314(d) precludes judicial review of a Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision to institute inter partes review upon finding that §315(b)’s time bar d...

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Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the phrase “questions of law” in the Immigration and Nationality Act’s Limited Review Provision, 8 U. S. C. §1252(a)(2)(D), includes the application of a legal s...

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Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee v. Sulyma from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 requirement that plaintiffs with “actual knowledge” of an alleged fiduciary breach must file suit withi...

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Banister v. Davis from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that a timely Rule 59(e) motion to “amend or alter” a habeas court’s judgment is not a second or successive habeas petition.

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Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian, et al. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the landowners in this case were potentially responsible parties under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and thu...

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Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court vacated the ruling below that had applied a federal common-law rule on how to allocate a tax refund paid to an affiliated group.

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Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the government edict doctrine extends to—and thus renders uncopyrightable—the annotations in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated.

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New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court was asked to decide whether New York City’s ban on transporting a licensed, locked, and unloaded handgun to a home or shooting range outside city limits is consistent with...

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Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that a bankruptcy court’s order unreservedly denying relief from the automatic stay of creditor debt-collection efforts outside the bankruptcy forum is final and imme...

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Comcast Corp. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 requires that the plaintiff show that race was a but-for cause of the plaintiff's injury.

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Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrativ...

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Hernandez v. Mesa from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the family of a Mexican teenager who was killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in a cross-border shooting cannot sue the agent for damages under the U.S. Constitu...

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County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held the Clean Water Act requires a permit when pollutants originate from a point source but are conveyed to navigable waters by a nonpoint source, such as groundwater, if...

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Retirement Plans Committee of IBM v. Jander from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court was asked to decide whether generalized allegations of harm satisfy the "more harm than good" pleading standard for ERISA claims.

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Allen v. Cooper from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act was not a valid abrogation of state sovereign immunity to allow authors of original expression to sue states who infringe ...

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CITGO Asphalt Refining Co. v. Frescati Shipping Co. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that under federal maritime law a safe-berth clause in a voyage charter contract is a guarantee of a ship’s safety, not merely a duty of due diligence.

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Kansas v. Glover from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that when a police officer lacks information to suggest that the person driving a vehicle is not the vehicle’s owner, an investigative traffic stop made after running...

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Barton v. Barr from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that in determining eligibility for cancellation of removal of a lawful permanent resident who commits a serious crime, an offense listed in 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2) com...

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Kansas v. Garcia from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court upheld Kansas's prosecution of noncitizens who used stolen social security numbers to gain employment.

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Mathena v. Malvo from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court was asked to decide whether its prior decision regarding constitutional rules for sentencing juveniles is a substantive rule of constitutional law and thus retroactive, as...

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Rotkiske v. Klemm from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the one-year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act begins when the violation occurred, not when the violation was discovered.

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Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A group of cases in which the Court will decide the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s appointments (without their being confirmed by the Senate) to the oversight board created to help P...

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R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination against transgender employees based on their status as transgender.

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Bostock v. Clayton County from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits against employment discrimination “because of . . . sex” encompasses discrimination based on an indivi...

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Ramos v. Louisiana from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a unanimous verdict against the states.

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Kahler v. Kansas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that it does not violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments for a state to abolish the insanity defense.

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Peter v. NantKwest, Inc. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the phrase “[a]ll the expenses of the proceedings” in 35 U.S.C. § 145 does not include attorneys’ fees incurred as a result of defending the agency in § 145 liti...

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Taggart v. Lorenzen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that a creditor may be held in civil contempt for violating a bankruptcy court’s discharge order if there is no fair ground of doubt as to whether the order barred th...

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Quarles v. United States from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that Michigan’s third-degree home-invasion statute substantially corresponds to or is narrower than generic burglary for purposes of qualifying for enhanced sentencin...

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Department of Commerce v. New York from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the Secretary of Commerce did not violate the Enumeration Clause or the Census Act in deciding to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 census questionnai...

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Mitchell v. Wisconsin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court vacated the judgment of the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirming the drunk-driving convictions of petitioner Mitchell, who was administered a warrantless blood test while he ...

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Rehaif v. United States from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the “knowingly” provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) applies to both the possession and status elements of a § 922(g) crime.

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Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that where commercial or financial information is both customarily and actually treated as private by its owner and provided to the government under an assurance of p...

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Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that Title VII’s administrative-exhaustion requirement is a waivable claim-processing rule, not a jurisdictional requirement.

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McDonough v. Smith from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the statute of limitations for the petitioner’s § 1983 fabricated evidence claim began to run when the criminal proceedings against him terminated in his favor—t...

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United States v. Davis from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the subsection-specific definition of “crime of violence” in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)—which applies only in the limited context of a federal criminal prosecution...

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North Carolina Department of Revenue v. The Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the presence of in-state beneficiaries alone does not empower a state to tax trust income that has not been distributed to the beneficiaries where the beneficiar...

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Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Newton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that because the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act establishes the federal government's exclusive control over outer continental shelf, state law may be adopted as th...

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Iancu v. Brunetti from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court held that the Lanham Act’s prohibition on the federal registration of “immoral” or “scandalous” marks, in Section 2(a), violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendm...

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Torres v. Madrid from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court will decide whether an unsuccessful attempt to detain a suspect by use of physical force is a “seizure” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, or whether physical for...

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Pereida v. Barr from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court will decide whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is ambiguous as to whether it corresponds t...

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City of Chicago v. Fulton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court will decide the obligations of an entity that is passively retaining possession of property in which a bankruptcy estate has an interest.

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United States v. Briggs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court will decide whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces erred in concluding—contrary to its own longstanding precedent—that the Uniform Code of Military Justice...

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Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court will decide whether a state court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant when none of the defendant’s contacts with that state caused the plaintif...

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Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the court will decide whether copyright protection extends to a software interface, and whether the petitioner’s use of a software interface in the context of creating a new compute...

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FNU Tanzin v. Tanvir from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb, permits lawsuits seeking money damages against individual federal employees.

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Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court will decide whether an Arkansas law regulating pharmacy benefit managers’ drug-reimbursement rates is pre-empted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ER...

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Texas v. New Mexico from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court will decide whether the River Master correctly allocated evaporation losses under the Pecos River Compact.

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Carney v. Adams from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A case in which the Court will decide whether a state law that effectively limits state judicial service to members of the Democratic and Republican parties violates the First Amendment.

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BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore from 2021-01-19T14:00

A case in which the Court held that federal law permits a court of appeals to review any issue included in a district court’s order sending a case to state court when the move to state court is bas...

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FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project from 2021-01-19T14:00

A case in which the Court held that the Federal Communications Commission’s 2017 decision to repeal or modify three of its media ownership rules was not arbitrary or capricious under the Administra...

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