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Muldrow v. City of St. Loui...

12.06.2023

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 decision caused a signification disadvantage.

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12.06.2023 Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri 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 decision caused a signification disadvantage.
12.05.2023 Moore v. United States A case in which the Court will decide whether the 16th Amendment authorizes Congress to tax unrealized sums without apportionment among the states.
12.04.2023 Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P. 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 extinguishes claims held by non-debtors against ...
11.29.2023 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy 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 the U.S. Constitution.
11.28.2023 Wilkinson v. Garland 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” is a mixed question of law and fact ...
11.28.2023 McElrath v. Georgia 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.
11.27.2023 Brown v. United States 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 federal firearm offense or the federal ...
11.08.2023 Rudisill v. McDonough 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 programs associated with both periods of ...
11.07.2023 United States v. Rahimi 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 Amendment.
11.06.2023 Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz 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.
11.01.2023 Vidal v. Elster 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 of a government official or public ...
10.31.2023 Lindke v. Freed 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 authority of his or her office.
10.31.2023 O'Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier 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, which the official uses to communicate about job-related ...
10.30.2023 Culley v. Marshall 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.
10.11.2023 Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP A case in which the Court will decide whether South Carolina’s congressional redistricting plan constitutes an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
10.11.2023 Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP A case in which the Court will decide whether South Carolina’s congressional redistricting plan constitutes an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
10.10.2023 Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC 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 succeed on a retaliation claim.
10.10.2023 Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC 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 public policy” of the state whose law is displaced.
10.04.2023 Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer 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 accessibility information on its website.
10.03.2023 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America A case in which the Court will decide whether the funding scheme for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional.
10.02.2023 Pulsifer v. United States 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.
04.26.2023 Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota 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.
04.25.2023 Yegiazaryan v. Smagin 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) Act if the circumstances surrounding the injury indicate ...
04.24.2023 Dupree v. Younger 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.
04.24.2023 Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Coughlin A case in which the Court held the Bankruptcy Code unequivocally expresses Congress’s intent to abrogate the sovereign immunity of Native American tribes.
04.19.2023 Counterman v. Colorado 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 threatening nature of the statement.
04.18.2023 U.S. ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc. 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 conduct, not the objective reasonableness of such belief.
04.18.2023 Groff v. DeJoy 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 costs in relation to the conduct of its ...
04.17.2023 Slack Technologies v. Pirani 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 they claim is misleading.
04.17.2023 Pugin v. Garland 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.
03.29.2023 Polselli v. Internal Revenue Service 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 for anyone’s records whenever the IRS thinks that person’s ...
03.29.2023 Samia v. United States 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 the Sixth Amendment.
03.28.2023 Lora v. United States 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 for his role in a drug-trafficking-related murder.
03.28.2023 Smith v. United States 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.
03.27.2023 Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi 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 enable a “skilled artisan” to “make and use” ...
03.27.2023 United States v. Hansen 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 forbids only the purposeful solicitation and facilitation of specific acts known to ...
03.22.2023 Jack Daniel's Properties v. VIP Products LLC 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.
03.21.2023 Coinbase v. Bielski 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 question of arbitrability is pending.
03.21.2023 Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. 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 the United States and is not ...
03.20.2023 Arizona v. Navajo Nation 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 States to take affirmative steps to secure water ...
03.01.2023 New York v. New Jersey 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.
02.28.2023 Biden v. Nebraska 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.
02.28.2023 Department of Education v. Brown A case in which the Court was asked to consider a challenge to the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan.
02.27.2023 Dubin v. United States 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 crux of—rather than merely peripheral to—what ...
02.22.2023 Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh 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 “aggressive” action to prevent such use, and that an ...
02.21.2023 Gonzalez v. Google LLC 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 third party’s content.
01.18.2023 Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, et al. 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 administrative processes of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ...
01.17.2023 Santos-Zacaria v. Garland 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 impermissible factfinding simply because the immigrant ...
01.17.2023 Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States 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. § 3231, and that such entities are not immune from criminal prosecution under ...
01.11.2023 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. 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 Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico and claims otherwise ...

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U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments episodes:

Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri

Moore v. United States

Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P.

Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy

Wilkinson v. Garland

McElrath v. Georgia

Brown v. United States

Rudisill v. McDonough

United States v. Rahimi

Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz

Vidal v. Elster

Lindke v. Freed

O'Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier

Culley v. Marshall

Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP

Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP

Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC

Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC

Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America

Pulsifer v. United States

Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota

Yegiazaryan v. Smagin

Dupree v. Younger

Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Coughlin

Counterman v. Colorado

U.S. ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc.

Groff v. DeJoy

Slack Technologies v. Pirani

Pugin v. Garland

Polselli v. Internal Revenue Service

Samia v. United States

Lora v. United States

Smith v. United States

Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi

United States v. Hansen

Jack Daniel's Properties v. VIP Products LLC

Coinbase v. Bielski

Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc.

Arizona v. Navajo Nation

New York v. New Jersey

Biden v. Nebraska

Department of Education v. Brown

Dubin v. United States

Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh

Gonzalez v. Google LLC

Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, et al.

Santos-Zacaria v. Garland

Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States

Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc.