Recent decisions

Argued Mar 27, 2023

Decided Jun 23, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The Supreme Court held that admitting a non-testifying codefendant's redacted confession, which substitutes th...

22-196

Samia v. United States

Argued Mar 29, 2023

Decided Jun 23, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

The case asked whether the 1868 treaty and related federal law imposed an affirmative federal duty to secure w...

21-1484

Arizona v. Navajo Nation

Argued Mar 20, 2023

Decided Jun 22, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The Supreme Court held that a state conviction for accessory after the fact to a felony qualifies as an offens...

22-23

Pugin v. Garland

Argued Apr 17, 2023

Decided Jun 22, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Vitaly Smagin, a Russian citizen, sued another Russian citizen residing in California under the RICO Act for a...

22-381

Yegiazaryan v. Smagin

Argued Apr 25, 2023

Decided Jun 22, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Efrain Lora was convicted under a federal statute for his role in a drug-trafficking-related murder. The Supre...

22-49

Lora v. United States

Argued Mar 28, 2023

Decided Jun 16, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Brian Coughlin filed for bankruptcy after taking a payday loan from a business owned by a Native American trib...

22-227

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

The Supreme Court unanimously held that when a defendant's conviction is overturned because the trial was held...

Argued Apr 24, 2023

Decided Jun 15, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

21-1576

Smith v. United States

Argued Mar 28, 2023

Decided Jun 15, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

David Dubin was convicted of aggravated identity theft for overbilling Medicaid using patients' reimbursement ...

22-10

Dubin v. United States

Argued Feb 27, 2023

Decided Jun 8, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

VIP Products created a dog toy parodying the iconic Jack Daniel's whiskey bottle. The Supreme Court ruled that...

22-148

Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC

Argued Mar 22, 2023

Decided Jun 8, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The Supreme Court considered whether a pharmacy chain knowingly violated the False Claims Act by overbilling t...

21-1326

United States ex rel. Schutte v. Supervalu Inc.

Argued Apr 18, 2023

Decided Jun 1, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

In a case involving Slack's direct public listing, the Supreme Court ruled that individuals suing under Sectio...

22-200

Slack Technologies, LLC v. Pirani

Argued Apr 17, 2023

Decided Jun 1, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The Supreme Court held that a party does not need to file a post-trial motion to preserve a purely legal issue...

22-210

Dupree v. Younger

Argued Apr 24, 2023

Decided May 25, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Geraldine Tyler owed $15,000 in property taxes, leading Hennepin County to foreclose on her home, sell it for ...

22-166

Tyler v. Hennepin County

Argued Apr 26, 2023

Decided May 25, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

The Supreme Court ruled that when a federal agency makes a legal error, an appeals court must send the case ba...

22-714

Calcutt v. FDIC

Decided May 22, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

The Supreme Court held that the IRS is not required to give notice when issuing a summons for a third party's ...

21-1599

Polselli v. IRS

Argued Mar 29, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Whether several states can intervene to defend Title 42, a Trump-era border policy that allowed immigration of...

22-592

Arizona v. Mayorkas

TrackingKey context available; fuller brief still in progress

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that social media platforms cannot be held liable for aiding ...

21-1496

Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh

Argued Feb 22, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The family of a terrorist attack victim sued Google, alleging that YouTube's algorithms aided ISIS by recommen...

21-1333

Gonzalez v. Google LLC

Argued Feb 21, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that two of Amgen's patents for cholesterol-lowering drugs we...

21-757

Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi

Argued Mar 27, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

This case involves an emergency application by the State of Alabama to vacate a stay of execution granted to a...

22-580

Hamm v. Smith

Decided May 15, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

This case considers whether a federal immigration law prevents a court of appeals from reviewing an immigrant'...

21-1436

Santos-Zacaria v. Garland

Argued Jan 17, 2023

Decided May 11, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

This capital case involved a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during the sentencing phase, specifica...

22-5891

Burns v. Mays

Decided Apr 24, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Turkiye Halk Bankasi, a Turkish state-owned bank, was indicted for participating in a money-laundering scheme ...

21-1450

Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States

Argued Jan 17, 2023

Decided Apr 19, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

The Supreme Court ruled that the prosecution violated a defendant's due process rights by failing to disclose ...

22-77

Brown v. Louisiana

Decided Apr 3, 2023

Originating court

Supreme Court of Louisiana

This case asks whether courts can appoint their own prosecutors for criminal contempt charges when the U.S. At...

22-274

Donziger v. United States

Decided Mar 27, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

A deaf student sued his school district under the Americans with Disabilities Act for compensatory damages aft...

21-887

Luna Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools

Argued Jan 18, 2023

Decided Mar 21, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

This case considers whether a court clerk is entitled to quasi-judicial immunity after notifying a minor's par...

22-312

Chapman v. Doe

Decided Mar 20, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

This case involves a dispute over whether individuals have standing to bring an Establishment Clause claim aga...

22-278

City of Ocala v. Rojas

Decided Mar 6, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Alexandru Bittner challenged a $2.72 million fine for failing to report his foreign bank accounts, arguing the...

21-1195

Bittner v. United States

Argued Nov 2, 2022

Decided Feb 28, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Kate Bartenwerfer and her husband sold a house with defects, leading to a fraud judgment against them before t...

21-908

Bartenwerfer v. Buckley

Decided Feb 22, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The Supreme Court held that the exclusionary rule does not apply to evidence found during searches conducted i...

22-5364

Davis v. United States

Decided Feb 21, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

This case involves whether civil penalties imposed by the IRS are subject to the Constitution's protection aga...

22-177

Toth v. United States

Decided Jan 23, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

A grand jury subpoenaed documents from a company and its law firm, who withheld certain communications that co...

21-1397

In re Grand Jury

Decided Jan 23, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

This case examines whether the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority under the Clean Air Act to re...

20-1530

West Virginia v. EPA

Argued Feb 28, 2022

Decided Jun 30, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

A high school football coach was disciplined by his school district for praying at midfield after games. The S...

21-418

Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dist.

Argued Apr 25, 2022

Decided Jun 27, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The Supreme Court considered whether New York's law requiring individuals to show a special need for self-defe...

20-843

New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen

Argued Nov 3, 2021

Decided Jun 23, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

In this case, the Supreme Court decided whether an attempted Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violen...

20-1459

United States v. Taylor

Argued Dec 7, 2021

Decided Jun 21, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

This case determines whether the Supreme Court's ruling in Ramos v. Louisiana, which requires unanimous jury v...

19-5807

Edwards v. Vannoy

Argued Dec 2, 2020

Decided May 17, 2021

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

1. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial is violated when a trial court closes the courtroom to ...

19-8344

Combs v. Nevada

TrackingKey context available; fuller brief still in progress

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Furlow v. United States is a case reviewed by the Supreme Court following a petition for a writ of certiorari ...

19-7007

Furlow v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, fi...

19-8391

Coffman v. Illinois

Originating court

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by an indigent individual appealing a decision fr...

19-8385

Quintero v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Ankh-El filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court to review a decision by the United Stat...

19-8152

Ankh-El v. Carter

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

This case involved a petition for a writ of certiorari submitted to Justice Thomas regarding a decision from t...

19-7043

Toth v. Inch

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

This case involves an appeal from the Ninth Circuit in a dispute against the United States, where a petition f...

19-7729

New v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh ...

19-7127

Tomlin v. Patterson

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari submitted to Justice Alito regarding a decision by the ...

19-8112

Ali v. Oberlander

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit