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Espinoza v. Montana Departm...

01.22.2020

A case in which the Court will decide whether a state law that provides funding for education but excludes religious education options violates the Religion Clauses or the Equal Protection Clause of the federal Constitution.

U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments episodes:

01.22.2020 Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue A case in which the Court will decide whether a state law that provides funding for education but excludes religious education options violates the Religion Clauses or the Equal Protection Clause of the federal Constitution.
01.21.2020 Shular v. United States A case in which the Court will decide whether the determination of a “serious drug offense” under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determination of a “violent felony” under the act.
01.21.2020 GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC A case in which the Court will decide whether the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards permits a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement to compel arbitration based on the doctrine of equitable estoppel.
01.15.2020 Babb v. Wilkie A case in which the Court will decide whether a provision of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) that protects federal employees aged 40 years from age discrimination, 29 U.S.C. § 633a(a), requires a plaintiff to prove ...
01.14.2020 Kelly v. United States A case in which the Court will decide whether a public official “defraud[s]” the government of its property by advancing a “public policy reason” for an official decision that is not her subjective “real reason” for making the decision.
01.14.2020 Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc. A case in which the Court will decide whether, under Section 35 of the Lanham Act, willful infringement is a prerequisite for 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 will decide whether an ERISA plan participant may seek injunctive relief or restoration of plan losses caused by fiduciary breach without demonstrating 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 will decide whether, when a plaintiff asserts new claims, federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated and resolved in any prior case between the parties.
12.11.2019 McKinney v. Arizona A case in which the Court will decide (1) whether the Arizona Supreme Court was required to apply current law, rather than the law as it existed at the time a defendant’s conviction became final, when weighing mitigating and aggravating ...
12.11.2019 Monasky v. Taglieri A case in which the Court will decide (1) the proper standard of review of a district court’s determination of habitual residence under the Hague Convention—de novo, a deferential version of de novo, or for clear error; and (2) whether, ...
12.10.2019 Holguin-Hernandez v. United States A case in which the Court will decide whether a criminal defendant must make a formal objection after the pronouncement of the sentence to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of the sentence.
12.10.2019 Maine Community Health Options v. United States Several cases in which the Court will decide whether an appropriations rider whose text bars the agency’s use of certain funds to pay a statutory obligation, but does not repeal or amend the statutory obligation, does in fact impliedly repeal ...
12.09.2019 Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP A case in which the Court will decide whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) permits appeal of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision to institute an inter partes review upon finding that 35 U.S.C. § 315(b)’s time bar did not ...
12.09.2019 Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr A case in which the Court will decide whether a request for equitable tolling, as it applies to statutory motions to reopen, is judicially reviewable as a “question of law” or instead is unreviewable as a “question of fact.”
12.04.2019 Banister v. Davis A case in which the Court will decide whether and under what circumstances a timely Rule 59(e) motion to “amend or alter” the court’s judgment should be recharacterized as a second or successive habeas petition under Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 ...
12.04.2019 Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee v. Sulyma A case in which the Court will decide whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1113(2)—which runs from “the earliest date on which the plaintiff had actual knowledge ...
12.03.2019 Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. A case in which the Court will decide whether federal common law or the law of the relevant state determines the ownership of a tax refund paid to an affiliated group.
12.03.2019 Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian, et al. A case in which the Court will decide: (1) whether a common-law claim for restoration seeking cleanup remedies that conflict with remedies the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ordered is a jurisdictionally barred “challenge” to the EPA’s cleanup under 42 U.S.C. ...
12.02.2019 New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York A case in which the Court will 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 Clause, and ...
12.02.2019 Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc. A case in which the Court will decide whether 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 will decide whether a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 a showing of but-for causation or only that race is a motivating factor.
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 will decide whether, when plaintiffs plausibly allege that a rogue federal law enforcement officer violated clearly established Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights for which there is no alternative legal remedy, the federal courts can ...
11.12.2019 Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California A case in which the Court will decide (1) whether the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy is judicially reviewable; and (2) whether DHS’s decision to wind down the DACA ...
11.06.2019 County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund A case in which the Court will decide whether 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.
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 will decide whether the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act validly abrogates 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 will resolve a circuit split as to whether under federal maritime law a safe-berth clause in a voyage charter contract is a guarantee of a ship’s safety (as the Second Circuit and Third Circuit, ...
11.04.2019 Barton v. Barr A case in which the Court will decide whether a lawfully admitted permanent resident who is not seeking admission to the United States can be “render[ed] . . . inadmissible” for the purposes of the stop-time rule, 8 U.S.C. § ...
11.04.2019 Kansas v. Glover A case in which the Court will decide whether, for purposes of an investigative stop under the Fourth Amendment, it is reasonable for an officer to suspect that the registered owner of a vehicle is the one driving the vehicle ...
10.16.2019 Kansas v. Garcia A case in which the Court will decide (1) whether the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) expressly preempts states from using information provided on a federal Form I-9 in a prosecution of any person when the same information also ...
10.16.2019 Rotkiske v. Klemm 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.
10.16.2019 Mathena v. Malvo A case in which the Court will decide whether its prior decision regarding constitutional rules for sentencing juveniles is a substantive rule of constitutional law and thus retroactive, as the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, below, concluded ...
10.15.2019 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC 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 Puerto Rico recover from its substantial indebtedness.
10.08.2019 Bostock v. Clayton County A case in which the Court will decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits against employment discrimination “because of . . . sex” encompasses discrimination based on an individual’s sexual orientation.
10.08.2019 R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission A case in which the Court will decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination against transgender employees based on (1) their status as transgender or (2) sex stereotyping under Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 ...
10.07.2019 Peter v. NantKwest, Inc. 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 litigation.
10.07.2019 Ramos v. Louisiana A case in which the Court will decide whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a unanimous verdict against the states.
10.07.2019 Kahler v. Kansas A case in which the Court will decide whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments allow a state to abolish the insanity defense.
04.24.2019 Taggart v. Lorenzen 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 the creditor’s conduct.
04.24.2019 Quarles v. United States 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 sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act.
04.23.2019 Rehaif v. United States 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.
04.23.2019 Department of Commerce v. New York 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 questionnaire, but the district court was warranted ...
04.23.2019 Mitchell v. Wisconsin 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 was unconscious, and remanded the case.
04.22.2019 Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis A case in which the Court held that Title VII’s administrative-exhaustion requirement is a waivable claim-processing rule, not a jurisdictional requirement.
04.22.2019 Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media 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 privacy, the information is “confidential” within the ...
04.17.2019 McDonough v. Smith 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—that is, when he was acquitted at the ...
04.17.2019 United States v. Davis 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 for possessing, using or carrying a firearm in connection ...
04.16.2019 North Carolina Department of Revenue v. The Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust 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 beneficiaries have no right to demand that ...
04.16.2019 Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Newton 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 the rule of decision only if there is a ...

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U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments episodes:

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

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

Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc.

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.

Barton v. Barr

Kansas v. Glover

Kansas v. Garcia

Rotkiske v. Klemm

Mathena v. Malvo

Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC

Bostock v. Clayton County

R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Peter v. NantKwest, Inc.

Ramos v. Louisiana

Kahler v. Kansas

Taggart v. Lorenzen

Quarles v. United States

Rehaif v. United States

Department of Commerce v. New York

Mitchell v. Wisconsin

Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis

Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media

McDonough v. Smith

United States v. Davis

North Carolina Department of Revenue v. The Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust

Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Newton

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