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Comcast Corp. v. National A...

11.13.2019

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.

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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 will decide whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay in bankruptcy proceeding is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1).
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 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 will decide whether generalized allegations that the harm of an inevitable disclosure of an alleged fraud generally increases over time satisfy the “more harm than good” pleading standard for ERISA claims the Court established ...
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 will resolve a circuit split as to when the one-year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act begins—when the violation is discovered, as the Fourth And Ninth Circuits have held, or ...
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 will decide whether the phrase “[a]ll the expenses of the proceedings” in 35 U.S.C. § 145 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 ...
04.15.2019 Emulex Corp. v. Varjabedian A case in which the Court was asked to decide whether the Ninth Circuit correctly held, in contrast to the holdings of five other federal appellate courts, that Section 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 supports an inferred ...
04.15.2019 Iancu v. Brunetti 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 Amendment.
03.27.2019 Kisor v. Wilkie A case in which the Court held that Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997), and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., 325 U.S. 410 (1945), which direct courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of its own ...
03.26.2019 Lamone v. Benisek A case in which the Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims are not justiciable because they present a political question beyond the reach of the federal courts.
03.26.2019 Rucho v. Common Cause A case in which the Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.
03.25.2019 PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic Inc. A case in which the Court held that Fourth Circuit did not properly consider preliminary issues that determine whether a district court must accept the Federal Communication Commission's legal interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
03.25.2019 The Dutra Group v. Batterton A case in which the Court held that punitive damages are not available to a Jones Act seaman in a personal injury lawsuit alleging a breach of the general maritime duty to provide a seaworthy vessel.
03.20.2019 Flowers v. Mississippi A case in which the Court held that the trial court in this case committed clear error at Flowers’ sixth murder trial by concluding that the state’s peremptory strike of a particular black prospective juror was not motivated in substantial ...
03.19.2019 Cochise Consultancy Inc. v. United States, ex rel. Hunt A case in which the Court held that a relator in a False Claims Act qui tam action may rely on the statute of limitations in 31 U.S.C. § 3731(b)(2) in a suit in which the United States has declined ...
03.18.2019 Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill A case in which the Court was asked to decide whether the district court in this case erred in finding that (1) race predominated over traditional districting factors in the construction of 11 districts, and (2) the Virginia House of ...
03.18.2019 Smith v. Berryhill A case in which the Court held that the decision of the Appeals Council—the administrative body that hears a claimant’s appeal of an adverse decision of an administrative law judge regarding a disability benefit claim—to reject a disability claim on ...
02.27.2019 The American Legion v. American Humanist Association A case in which the Court held that the display and maintenance of a large memorial cross by a local government does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
02.26.2019 Mont v. United States A case in which the Court held that pretrial detention later credited as time served for a new conviction tolls a supervised-release term under 18 U.S.C. §3624(e), even if the court must make the tolling calculation after learning whether the ...
02.26.2019 United States v. Haymond A case in which the Court vacated the Tenth Circuit’s decision holding that 18 U.S.C. § 3583(k), which imposes a mandatory minimum punishment on a criminal defendant upon a finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant engaged ...
02.25.2019 Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck A case in which the Court held that Manhattan Community Access Corp, which operates public access channels, is not a state actor subject to constitutional liability.
02.20.2019 Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC A case in which the Court held that in bankruptcy proceedings, the debtor’s rejection of a license agreement has the same effect as breach of that contract outside the bankruptcy context and thus cannot rescind rights that the contract previously ...
02.19.2019 Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service A case in which the Court held that under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, the federal government is not a “person” capable of petitioning the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to institute patent review proceedings.
01.16.2019 Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania A case in which the Court held that a government violates the Takings Clause when it takes property without compensation, and a property owner may bring a Fifth Amendment claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 at that time; the state-litigation ...
01.16.2019 Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas A case in which the Court held that a state’s regulation of liquor sales by granting licenses only to individuals or entities that have resided in-state for a specified time violates the dormant Commerce Clause and is not saved by ...
01.15.2019 Azar v. Allina Health Services A case in which the Court vacated a policy change of the US Department of Health and Human Services for failing to provide notice and an opportunity to comment before implementing a rule changing its Medicare reimbursement formula.

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U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments episodes:

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 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

Emulex Corp. v. Varjabedian

Iancu v. Brunetti

Kisor v. Wilkie

Lamone v. Benisek

Rucho v. Common Cause

PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic Inc.

The Dutra Group v. Batterton

Flowers v. Mississippi

Cochise Consultancy Inc. v. United States, ex rel. Hunt

Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill

Smith v. Berryhill

The American Legion v. American Humanist Association

Mont v. United States

United States v. Haymond

Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck

Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC

Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service

Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania

Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas

Azar v. Allina Health Services

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