Opinions
24 decisions
The Court sided with West Virginia, allowing states to use sex-at-birth rules for girls' and boys' school sports teams.
The Supreme Court blocked the executive order and reaffirmed that children born on U.S. soil are citizens under the Constitution and federal law.
The Court resolved the Idaho sports dispute, but the materials provided here do not reveal which side prevailed or how broadly the decision reaches.
The Court put the FTC under stronger presidential control by invalidating the commissioners' for-cause removal protections.
The Supreme Court said police went too far when they used this broad geofence warrant to collect Google location data from many nearby devices.
The Supreme Court did not let the President remove Cook right now, leaving the Fed governor in place as the dispute moves forward.
Federal Election Day laws do not stop Mississippi from counting mailed ballots sent by Election Day and received within five business days.
The Court has now answered key questions about court review of these TPS terminations, and that answer will control the Syria and Haiti cases going forward.
When the EPA did not require a pesticide warning, this type of state-law warning claim cannot move forward.
The decision sets the national rule for whether being stopped on the Mexican side of the border counts as arriving in the United States under the INA.
The Court has resolved the constitutional fight over Hawaii's express-authorization rule, and that answer will matter for carrying guns in stores, restaurants, and similar places.
This case asked whether Cisco could be sued under federal laws for aiding and abetting (helping wrongdoing). Plaintiffs said Cisco helped China persecute Falun Gong practitioners using surveillance technology. The Court held that neither law creates an implied aiding-and-abetting lawsuit.
Helms-Burton does not let plaintiffs skip the usual immunity rules for foreign state-owned entities.
The Supreme Court said RLUIPA allows money-damages claims against individual state officials.
This case asked what compensation is owed after a tax foreclosure sale. The Pung family owed $2,241.93. The Court held the owner gets only surplus proceeds (money above the debt), not fair market value.
The Court settled the timing-of-proof question for a narrow but important set of immigration removal cases involving returning green-card holders.
The Supreme Court said the Second Circuit overstepped when it threw out Hernandez's conviction.
The Court said this federal gun restriction could not be applied to Hemani based on regular marijuana use alone.
Plea-deal appeal waivers still matter, but judges may set them aside when enforcement would create a miscarriage of justice.
A pending state appeal does not let someone start a parallel federal trial-court case attacking the same state-court judgment.
Keathley will shape how courts handle civil claims left out of bankruptcy filings, though the available materials here do not give the Court's exact rule.
The Court said private parties may use Section 47(b) to seek rescission under the Investment Company Act.
The Court's decision sets the rule for when prosecutors may rely on alleged effects in a district, rather than conduct there, to choose where a federal case is tried.
The Court's decision sets the ground rules for whether the FCC can seek money penalties for telecom privacy failures without a jury trial.