U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Announcements

18-422 - Rucho v. Common Cause - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019

A case in which the Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.

18-422 - Rucho v. Common Cause - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019

A case in which the Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.

18-6210 - Mitchell v. Wisconsin - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019

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.

18-966 - Department of Commerce v. New York - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019

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 in remanding the case to the agency where the evidence tells a story that does not match the Secretary’s explanation for his decision.

17-1672 - United States v. Haymond - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2019 Jun 26, 2019

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 in certain criminal conduct while under supervised release, violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.

18-15 - Kisor v. Wilkie - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2019 Jun 26, 2019

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 ambiguous regulation, are not overruled.

18-96 - Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2019 Jun 26, 2019

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 the Twenty-First Amendment.

18-266 - The Dutra Group v. Batterton - Opinion Announcement - June 24, 2019 Jun 24, 2019

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.

18-302 - Iancu v. Brunetti - Opinion Announcement - June 24, 2019 Jun 24, 2019

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.

18-431 - United States v. Davis - Opinion Announcement - June 24, 2019 Jun 24, 2019

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 with acts comprising such a crime—is unconstitutionally vague.

18-481 - Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media - Opinion Announcement - June 24, 2019 Jun 24, 2019

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 meaning of Exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(4).

17-647 - Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania - Opinion Announcement - June 21, 2019 Jun 21, 2019

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 requirement set forth in Williamson County Regional Planning Comm’n v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City, 473 U.S. 172 (1985), is overruled.

17-9560 - Rehaif v. United States - Opinion Announcement - June 21, 2019 Jun 21, 2019

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.

17-9572 - Flowers v. Mississippi - Opinion Announcement - June 21, 2019 Jun 21, 2019

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 part by discriminatory intent.

18-457 - North Carolina Department of Revenue v. The Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust - Opinion Announcement - June 21, 2019 Jun 21, 2019

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 income and are uncertain to receive it.

17-1705 - PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic Inc. - Opinion Announcement - June 20, 2019 Jun 20, 2019

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.

17-1717 - The American Legion v. American Humanist Association - Opinion Announcement - June 20, 2019 Jun 20, 2019

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.

17-1717 - The American Legion v. American Humanist Association - Opinion Announcement - June 20, 2019 Jun 20, 2019

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.

17-6086 - Gundy v. United States - Opinion Announcement - June 20, 2019 Jun 20, 2019

A case in which the Court affirmed the judgment of the Second Circuit, below, that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act’s delegation of authority to the U.S. Attorney General to issue regulations under 42 U.S.C. § 16913 is not an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority.

18-485 - McDonough v. Smith - Opinion Announcement - June 20, 2019 Jun 20, 2019

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 end of his second trial.

16-1275 - Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren - Opinion Announcement - June 17, 2019 Jun 17, 2019

A case in which the Court affirmed the Fourth Circuit's decision that the federal Atomic Energy Act does not preempt a Virginia ban on non-federal uranium mining.

17-1702 - Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck - Opinion Announcement - June 17, 2019 Jun 17, 2019

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.

17-646 - Gamble v. United States - Opinion Announcement - June 17, 2019 Jun 17, 2019

A case in which the Court upheld its “separate sovereigns” exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause.

18-281 - Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill - Opinion Announcement - June 17, 2019 Jun 17, 2019

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 Delegates did not satisfy its burden of showing the use of race was narrowly tailored to achieve the compelling state interest of compliance with Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The Court instead dismissed the appeal, holding that the House of Delegates lacked standing to appeal the invalidation of Virginia’s redistricting plan.

17-1594 - Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service - Opinion Announcement - June 10, 2019 Jun 10, 2019

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.

17-778 - Quarles v. United States - Opinion Announcement - June 10, 2019 Jun 10, 2019

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.

18-389 - Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Newton - Opinion Announcement - June 10, 2019 Jun 10, 2019

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 gap in federal law.

17-1484 - Azar v. Allina Health Services - Opinion Announcement - June 03, 2019 Jun 03, 2019

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.

17-8995 - Mont v. United States - Opinion Announcement - June 03, 2019 Jun 03, 2019

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 time will be credited.

18-489 - Taggart v. Lorenzen - Opinion Announcement - June 03, 2019 Jun 03, 2019

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.

18-525 - Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis - Opinion Announcement - June 03, 2019 Jun 03, 2019

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

17-1174 - Nieves v. Bartlett - Opinion Announcement - May 28, 2019 May 28, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the presence of probable cause defeats a First Amendment retaliatory-arrest claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

17-1471 - Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson - Opinion Announcement - May 28, 2019 May 28, 2019

A case in which the Court held that neither the general removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1441, nor the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), 28 U.S.C. § 1453(b), permits removal to federal court by a third-party counterclaim defendant.

17-1606 - Smith v. Berryhill - Opinion Announcement - May 28, 2019 May 28, 2019

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 the ground that the claimant’s appeal was untimely is a “final decision” subject to judicial review under 42 U.S.C. § 405(g).

17-1657 - Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC - Opinion Announcement - May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019

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 granted.

17-290 - Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Albrecht - Opinion Announcement - May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019

A case in which the Court held that “clear evidence” that the FDA would not have approved a change to a drug’s label—thus pre-empting a state-law failure-to-warn claim—is evidence showing that the drug manufacturer fully informed the FDA of the justifications for the warning required by state law and that the FDA, in turn, informed the drug manufacturer that the FDA would not approve a change to the drug’s label to include that warning. The Court further held that the question of agency disapproval is primarily one of law for a judge, not a jury, to decide.

17-532 - Herrera v. Wyoming - Opinion Announcement - May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019

A case in which the Court held that Wyoming’s admission to the Union did not abrogate the Crow Tribe of Indians’ 1868 federal treaty right to hunt on the “unoccupied lands of the United States,” and the lands of the Bighorn National Forest did not become categorically “occupied” when the forest was created.

17-1299 - Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt - Opinion Announcement - May 13, 2019 May 13, 2019

A case in which the Court held that a state cannot be sued in the courts of another state without its consent, overruling Nevada v. Hall.

17-204 - Apple v. Pepper - Opinion Announcement - May 13, 2019 May 13, 2019

A case in which the Court held that consumers may sue for antitrust damages any party who delivers goods to them (in this case, Apple), even where they seek damages based on prices set by third parties (in this case, app developers) who would be the immediate victims of the alleged offense.

18-315 - Cochise Consultancy Inc. v. United States, ex rel. Hunt - Opinion Announcement - May 13, 2019 May 13, 2019

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 to intervene, but the relator does not constitute an “official of the United States” for purposes of that section.

17-1201 - Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Authority - Opinion Announcement - April 29, 2019 Apr 29, 2019

A case in which the Court held that statute that waives the Tennessee Valley Authority’s sovereign immunity from suit by making it a “sue-and-be-sued” type entity is not subject to a discretionary function exception of the kind in the Federal Tort Claims Act but may be subject to an implied restriction as recognized in Federal Housing Authority v. Burr, 309 U.S. 242 (1940).

17-988 - Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela - Opinion Announcement - April 24, 2019 Apr 24, 2019

A case in which the Court held that under the Federal Arbitration Act, an ambiguous agreement cannot provide the necessary contractual basis for concluding that the parties agreed to submit to class arbitration.

18-459 - Emulex Corp. v. Varjabedian - Opinion Announcement - April 23, 2019 Apr 23, 2019

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 private right of action based on the negligent misstatement or omission made in connection with a tender offer.

17-1184 - Biestek v. Berryhill - Opinion Announcement - April 01, 2019 Apr 01, 2019

A case in which the Court held that a vocational expert’s testimony may constitute “substantial evidence” of “other work” even if the expert does not provide the underlying data on which that testimony is premised.

17-8151 - Bucklew v. Precythe - Opinion Announcement - April 01, 2019 Apr 01, 2019

A case in which the Court clarified the evidentiary burden for a death-row prisoner seeking an alternative method of execution and held that the prisoner in this case failed to meet that burden.

17-1077 - Lorenzo v. Securities and Exchange Commission - Opinion Announcement - March 27, 2019 Mar 27, 2019

A case in which the Court will held that dissemination of false or misleading statements with intent to defraud falls within the scope of Rules 10b-5(a) and (c) even if the disseminator did not “make” the statements as defined by the Court’s precedent.

16-1094 - Republic of Sudan v. Harrison - Opinion Announcement - March 26, 2019 Mar 26, 2019

A case in which the Court resolved a circuit split in holding that plaintiffs suing a foreign state under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act must serve the foreign state under 28 U.S.C. § 1608(a)(3) by mail addressed and dispatched to the head of the foreign state's ministry of foreign affairs in the foreign state, not at the foreign state's embassy in the United States.

17-949 - Sturgeon v. Frost - Opinion Announcement - March 26, 2019 Mar 26, 2019

A case in which the Court held that Alaska’s Nation River is not public land and that, like all non-public lands and navigable waters within Alaska’s national parks, the Nation River is exempt under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act from the National Park Service’s regulatory authority.

17-1307 - Obduskey v. McCarthy & Holthus LLP - Opinion Announcement - March 20, 2019 Mar 20, 2019

A case in which the Court held that a business engaged in no more than non-judicial foreclosure proceedings is not a “debt collector” under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, except for one limited purpose as defined within the Act.

17-961 - Frank v. Gaos - Opinion Announcement - March 20, 2019 Mar 20, 2019

A case in which the Court was asked to decide whether, or in what circumstances, a cy pres award of class action proceeds that provides no direct relief to class members supports class certification and comports with the requirement that a settlement binding class members must be “fair, reasonable, and adequate.”

16-1363 - Nielsen v. Preap - Opinion Announcement - March 19, 2019 Mar 19, 2019

A case in which the Court held that a noncitizen released from criminal custody does not become exempt from mandatory detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c) if, after the noncitizen is released from criminal custody, the Department of Homeland Security does not take the noncitizen into immigration custody immediately.

16-1363 - Nielsen v. Preap - Opinion Announcement - March 19, 2019 Mar 19, 2019

A case in which the Court held that a noncitizen released from criminal custody does not become exempt from mandatory detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c) if, after the noncitizen is released from criminal custody, the Department of Homeland Security does not take the noncitizen into immigration custody immediately.

16-1498 - Washington State Department of Licensing v. Cougar Den, Inc. - Opinion Announcement - March 19, 2019 Mar 19, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the “right to travel” provision of the Yakama Treaty of 1855 (between the United States and the Yakama Nation of Indians) preempts the state’s fuel tax as applied to Cougar Den’s importation of fuel by public highway for sale within the reservation.

17-1104 - Air and Liquid Systems Corp. v. Devries - Opinion Announcement - March 19, 2019 Mar 19, 2019

A case in which the Court held that under maritime law, a manufacturer has a duty to warn users of the dangers of its product if the product requires incorporation of a part produced by a third party, the resulting fully incorporated product is likely to be dangerous for its intended uses, and the manufacturer has no reason to believe that the product’s users would be aware of that danger.

17-1042 - BNSF Railway Co. v. Loos - Opinion Announcement - March 04, 2019 Mar 04, 2019

A case in which the Court held that under the Railroad Retirement Tax Act, a railroad company's payment to an employee for time lost from work is compensation subject to employment taxes.

17-1625 - Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc. - Opinion Announcement - March 04, 2019 Mar 04, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the Copyright Act’s allowance for “full costs” to a prevailing party is limited to taxable costs and does not include costs not specifically described in the statute.

17-571 - Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com - Opinion Announcement - March 04, 2019 Mar 04, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the “registration of [a] copyright claim has been made” within the meaning of 17 U.S.C. § 411(a) not when the copyright holder files its application, but only once the copyright office acts on that application.

17-1011 - Jam v. International Finance Corp. - Opinion Announcement - February 27, 2019 Feb 27, 2019

A case in which the Court held that under the international organizations have the immunity that foreign governments enjoy at present, as described in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, not the immunity they enjoyed at the time the International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945 was enacted.

17-1026 - Garza v. Idaho - Opinion Announcement - February 27, 2019 Feb 27, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the decision of a criminal defendant’s trial lawyer not to appeal a conviction because the defendant’s plea agreement included an appeal waiver triggers a “presumption of prejudice” indicating ineffective assistance of counsel.

17-7505 - Madison v. Alabama - Opinion Announcement - February 27, 2019 Feb 27, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the Eighth Amendment does not prohibit a state from executing a prisoner who due to mental disability cannot remember committing his crime, but it does prohibit executing a prisoner who cannot rationally understand the reasons for his execution, whether that inability is due to psychosis or dementia.

17-1094 - Nutraceutical Corp. v. Lambert - Opinion Announcement - February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019

A case in which the Court resolved a circuit split by holding that the Ninth Circuit erred when it ruled that equitable exceptions apply to mandatory claim-processing rules such as Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f), which sets a 14-day deadline to file a petition for permission to appeal an order granting or denying class-action certification, and can excuse a party’s failure to file timely within the deadline established by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f).

17-1091 - Timbs v. Indiana - Opinion Announcement - February 20, 2019 Feb 20, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause is incorporated against the states under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause.

17-419 - Dawson v. Steager - Opinion Announcement - February 20, 2019 Feb 20, 2019

A case in which the Court held that a provision of the West Virginia Code that exempts from state taxation the retirement income of many state and local firefighters and law enforcement officers, but not federal marshals, violates 4 U.S.C. § 111 by discriminating “because of the source of the pay or compensation.”

17-340 - New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira - Opinion Announcement - January 15, 2019 Jan 15, 2019

A case in which the Court held that (1) a court, not an arbitrator, must determine the applicability of Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act, and (2) under that provision, the term “contracts of employment” includes independent contractor agreements.

17-5554 - Stokeling v. United States - Opinion Announcement - January 15, 2019 Jan 15, 2019

A case in which the Court held that a state robbery offense that includes “as an element” the common law requirement of overcoming “victim resistance” is categorically a “violent felony” under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(b)(i), even though that offense requires only slight force to overcome resistance.

17-1272 - Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales Inc. - Opinion Announcement - January 08, 2019 Jan 08, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the Federal Arbitration Act does not permit a court to resolve a question of arbitrability when the parties to the contract at issue delegated such questions to an arbitrator.

17-773 - Culbertson v. Berryhill - Opinion Announcement - January 08, 2019 Jan 08, 2019

A case in which the Court resolved a circuit split, holding that fees subject to 42 U.S.C. § 406(b)’s 25-percent cap related to the representation of individuals claiming Social Security benefits include only fees for representation in court, not fees for representation before the agency.

17-765 - United States v. Stitt - Opinion Announcement - December 10, 2018 Dec 10, 2018

A case in which the Court held that residential burglary under Arkansas law and aggravated burglary under Tennessee law are the same as “general burglary” such that convictions for those crimes can serve as predicate crimes for the purpose of the enhanced sentencing provision of the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984.

17-71 - Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service - Opinion Announcement - November 27, 2018 Nov 27, 2018

A case in which the Court held that (1) to be designated a "critical habitat" under the Endangered Species Act, the land must already be habitat for the species; and (2) an agency determination not to exclude an area from critical habitat due to the economic impact of designation is subject to judicial review.

17-587 - Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido - Opinion Announcement - November 06, 2018 Nov 06, 2018

A case in which the Court held that the ADEA applies to all state political subdivisions of any size, resolving a circuit split between the Ninth Circuit and four other circuits.

142-orig - Florida v. Georgia - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2018 Jun 27, 2018

A case in which the Court held that Florida made a legally sufficient showing as to the possibility of fashioning an effective remedial decree equitably apportioning the waters of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin (ACF Basin).

16-1466 - Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2018 Jun 27, 2018

A case in which the Court decided the State of Illinois’ extraction of agency fees from nonconsenting public-sector employees violates the First Amendment; Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Ed., 431 U.S. 209 (1977), which held otherwise, was overruled.

16-1466 - Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2018 Jun 27, 2018

A case in which the Court decided the State of Illinois’ extraction of agency fees from nonconsenting public-sector employees violates the First Amendment; Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Ed., 431 U.S. 209 (1977), which held otherwise, was overruled.

16-1140 - National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2018 Jun 26, 2018

A case in which the Court decided that pro-life pregnancy center petitioners were likely to succeed on their claim that the California Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency Act violated the First Amendment.

16-1140 - National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2018 Jun 26, 2018

A case in which the Court decided that pro-life pregnancy center petitioners were likely to succeed on their claim that the California Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency Act violated the First Amendment.

17-965 - Trump v. Hawaii - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2018 (Part 2) Jun 26, 2018

A case in which the Court held that President Donald Trump’s Proclamation restricting travel and immigration to the US from certain countries (“travel ban”) does not violate the president’s statutory authority or the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. The Court was also asked, but did not decide, whether a global injunction barring enforcement of parts of the Proclamation is impermissibly overbroad.

17-965 - Trump v. Hawaii - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2018 Jun 26, 2018

A case in which the Court held that President Donald Trump’s Proclamation restricting travel and immigration to the US from certain countries (“travel ban”) does not violate the president’s statutory authority or the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. The Court was also asked, but did not decide, whether a global injunction barring enforcement of parts of the Proclamation is impermissibly overbroad.

17-965 - Trump v. Hawaii - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2018 Jun 26, 2018

A case in which the Court held that President Donald Trump’s Proclamation restricting travel and immigration to the US from certain countries (“travel ban”) does not violate the president’s statutory authority or the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. The Court was also asked, but did not decide, whether a global injunction barring enforcement of parts of the Proclamation is impermissibly overbroad.

16-1454 - Ohio v. American Express Co. - Opinion Announcement - June 25, 2018 Jun 25, 2018

A case in which the Court held, under the “rule of reason,” that the government’s showing that American Express’s anti-steering provisions stifled price competition on the merchant side of the credit-card platform was not sufficient to prove a violation of antitrust law.

16-1454 - Ohio v. American Express Co. - Opinion Announcement - June 25, 2018 Jun 25, 2018

A case in which the Court held, under the “rule of reason,” that the government’s showing that American Express’s anti-steering provisions stifled price competition on the merchant side of the credit-card platform was not sufficient to prove a violation of antitrust law.

17-586 - Abbott v. Perez - Opinion Announcement - June 25, 2018 Jun 25, 2018

A case in which the Court decided that the district court erred in disregarding the presumption of good faith on the part of the Texas Legislature and improperly reversed the burden of proof in requiring the state to show a lack of discriminatory intent in adopting new districting plans; the Court also held that one of the state house districts at issue was an impermissible racial gerrymander.

16-1011 - WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp. - Opinion Announcement - June 22, 2018 Jun 22, 2018

A case in which the Court held that WesternGeco’s award for lost profits was a permissible domestic application of § 284 of the Patent Act.

16-1348 - Currier v. Virginia - Opinion Announcement - June 22, 2018 Jun 22, 2018

A case in which the Court decided that because Michael Currier consented to a severance of the multiple charges against him, his second trial and resulting conviction, following an acquittal at his first trial, did not violate the double jeopardy clause.

16-1423 - Ortiz v. United States - Opinion Announcement - June 22, 2018 Jun 22, 2018

A case in which the Court held that it has jurisdiction to review the CAAF's decisions and that Judge Martin T. Mitchell’s simultaneous service on the US Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) and the US Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals (AFCCA) does not violate the Appointments Clause or 10 U.S.C. § 973(b)(2)(A).

16-402 - Carpenter v. United States - Opinion Announcement - June 22, 2018 Jun 22, 2018

A case in which the Court held that the warrantless seizure and search of cell phone records revealing the location and movements of a cell phone user over the course of 127 days violates the Fourth Amendment.

17-130 - Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission - Opinion Announcement - June 21, 2018 Jun 21, 2018

A case in which the Court decided that administrative law judges of the Securities and Exchange Commission are "officers of the United States" subject to the Constitution's Appointments Clause.

17-459 - Pereira v. Sessions - Opinion Announcement - June 21, 2018 Jun 21, 2018

A case in which the Court held that a notice to appear for a removal hearing that does not specify the place and time of the hearing does not trigger the stop-time rule of 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(1), which gives the attorney general discretion to cancel removal for an alien who, among other criteria, has been continuously physically present in the country for at least ten years.

17-494 - South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. - Opinion Announcement - June 21, 2018 Jun 21, 2018

A case in which the Court overruled Quill Corp. v. North Dakota and National Bellas Hess, Inc. v. Department of Revenue of Illinois, holding that states may require sellers with no physical presence in the state to collect and remit sales tax for goods sold within the state.

17-530 - Wisconsin Central Ltd. v. United States - Opinion Announcement - June 21, 2018 Jun 21, 2018

A case in which the Court decided that employee stock options are not taxable “compensation” under the Railroad Retirement Tax Act because they are not “money remuneration.”

16-1161 - Gill v. Whitford - Opinion Announcement - June 18, 2018 Jun 18, 2018

A case in which the Court was asked to decide whether partisan gerrymandering claims are justiciable, but the Court held that the plaintiffs lacked judicial standing.

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