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Chiafalo v. Washington

05.13.2020

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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05.13.2020 Chiafalo v. Washington 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.
05.13.2020 Colorado Department of State v. Baca 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.
05.12.2020 Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP 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-powers concerns raised by the subpoenas in these cases.
05.12.2020 Trump v. Vance 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 President.
05.11.2020 McGirt v. Oklahoma 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.
05.11.2020 Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru 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 employer, when the employee carried out important religious functions.
05.06.2020 Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Inc. 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 violates the First Amendment but is severable from ...
05.06.2020 Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania 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 plans.
05.05.2020 United States Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc. 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 does not violate the First Amendment because foreign corporations operating ...
05.04.2020 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V. 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 is distinct from the generic term ...
03.04.2020 June Medical Services LLC v. Russo 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 a local hospital because it conflicted with the ...
03.03.2020 Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission 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 restrictions.
03.03.2020 Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 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 separation of powers, but the statutory provision creating that violation, ...
03.02.2020 Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam 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.
03.02.2020 Nasrallah v. Barr 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, notwithstanding 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(C), which seems to divest courts of ...
02.26.2020 Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez 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 from filing or appealing a ...
02.25.2020 United States v. Sineneng-Smith 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.
02.24.2020 Opati v. Republic of Sudan 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 activities occurring prior to the passage of the current version of the statute.
02.24.2020 United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association 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 forests.
01.22.2020 Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue 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.
01.21.2020 Shular v. United States 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 require that the state offense match certain ...
01.21.2020 GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC 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 nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement to compel arbitration.
01.15.2020 Babb v. Wilkie 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-for causation is important in determining the appropriate ...
01.14.2020 Kelly v. United States 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 wire fraud laws because they did not aim to ...
01.14.2020 Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc. 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 Section 43(a).
01.13.2020 Thole v. U.S. Bank, N.A. 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 individual financial loss or the imminent risk thereof.
01.13.2020 Lucky Brand Dungarees Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Group Inc. 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 Lucky Brand from raising new defenses, including a defense that Lucky ...
12.11.2019 McKinney v. Arizona 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.
12.11.2019 McKinney v. Arizona 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.
12.11.2019 Monasky v. Taglieri 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 an actual agreement between parents.
12.10.2019 Holguin-Hernandez v. United States 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.
12.10.2019 Maine Community Health Options v. United States 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 Act as a result of their ...
12.09.2019 Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP 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 did not apply.
12.09.2019 Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr 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 standard to undisputed or established facts.
12.04.2019 Banister v. Davis 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.
12.04.2019 Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee v. Sulyma 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 within three years of gaining that knowledge, a plaintiff ...
12.03.2019 Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. 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.
12.03.2019 Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian, et al. 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 thus need the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval to take remedial action.
12.02.2019 New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York 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 the Second Amendment, the Commerce ...
12.02.2019 New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York 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 the Second Amendment, the Commerce ...
12.02.2019 Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc. 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.
11.13.2019 Comcast Corp. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media 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.
11.13.2019 Comcast Corp. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media 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.
11.13.2019 Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC 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 immediately appealable.
11.12.2019 Hernandez v. Mesa 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. Constitution.
11.12.2019 Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California 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 Administrative Procedure Act.
11.06.2019 County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund 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 the conveyance is the "functional ...
11.06.2019 Retirement Plans Committee of IBM v. Jander 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.
11.05.2019 Allen v. Cooper 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 their federal copyrights.
11.05.2019 CITGO Asphalt Refining Co. v. Frescati Shipping Co. 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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U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments episodes:

Chiafalo v. Washington

Colorado Department of State v. Baca

Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP

Trump v. Vance

McGirt v. Oklahoma

Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru

Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Inc.

Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania

United States Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V.

June Medical Services LLC v. Russo

Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission

Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam

Nasrallah v. Barr

Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez

United States v. Sineneng-Smith

Opati v. Republic of Sudan

United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association

Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue

Shular v. United States

GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC

Babb v. Wilkie

Kelly v. United States

Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc.

Thole v. U.S. Bank, N.A.

Lucky Brand Dungarees Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Group Inc.

McKinney v. Arizona

McKinney v. Arizona

Monasky v. Taglieri

Holguin-Hernandez v. United States

Maine Community Health Options v. United States

Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP

Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr

Banister v. Davis

Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee v. Sulyma

Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian, et al.

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York

Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc.

Comcast Corp. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media

Comcast Corp. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media

Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC

Hernandez v. Mesa

Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California

County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund

Retirement Plans Committee of IBM v. Jander

Allen v. Cooper

CITGO Asphalt Refining Co. v. Frescati Shipping Co.

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