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DecidedDeath penalty lawyer failuresTerence Tramaine Andrus, Petitioner v. TexasThe Court ruled for Andrus, holding that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals used a prejudice standard stricter than the one required by Strickland v. Washington when it rejected his ineffective-assistance claim. The Court vacated the state court’s judgment and sent the case back for a proper assessment of whether his lawyer’s failure to investigate and present mitigating evidence, and to challenge the State’s aggravating case, prejudiced him at sentencing.Decided Jun 15, 202018-9674 DecidedTransgender workplace discriminationR.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. EEOCAimee Stephens was fired from her job as a funeral director after informing her employer that she intended to transition from male to female. The Supreme Court decided that firing an employee for being transgender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on sex.Decided Jun 15, 202018-107 DecidedEnding protections for young immigrantsDepartment of Homeland Security v. Regents of Uni v. of Cal.The case concerned the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to wind down DACA, a program that deferred deportation for some immigrants brought to the United States as children. The Supreme Court wiped out part of the Ninth Circuit’s ruling, overturned another part, and sent the case back to the lower court (vacated in part, reversed in part, and remanded).Decided Jun 18, 202018-587 DecidedSEC recovery of illegal profitsLiu v. SECThis case asked whether the SEC can make people who violated securities laws give up their ill-gotten gains through disgorgement in a civil enforcement action. The Court held that disgorgement is allowed as equitable relief under federal law, but only when it is limited to a wrongdoer’s net profits and is generally returned to victims.Decided Jun 22, 202018-1501 DecidedCourt review of fast-track deportationsDepartment of Homeland Security v. ThuraissigiamThe Court overturned the Ninth Circuit and sent the case back to the lower court (reversed and remanded). It ruled that the limits on habeas corpus (a prisoner’s challenge to being locked up) review in expedited-removal cases did not violate the Constitution as applied to Thuraissigiam.Decided Jun 25, 202019-161 DecidedForeign groups' speech rightsAgency for Int'l De v. v. Alliance for Open Soc'y Int'l, Inc.The case asked whether the federal government could require foreign affiliates of U.S.-based aid groups fighting HIV/AIDS abroad to adopt a policy opposing prostitution and sex trafficking as a condition of receiving federal funds. The Supreme Court held that applying that requirement to those legally separate foreign affiliates is constitutional because foreign organizations operating overseas do not have First Amendment rights.Decided Jun 29, 202019-177 DecidedHospital rules for abortion doctorsJune Medical Services L. L. C. v. RussoThis case concerned a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Abortion clinics and doctors argued that the law was effectively the same as a Texas law the Supreme Court had already struck down and that it placed an unconstitutional burden on access to abortion.Decided Jun 29, 202018-1323 DecidedScholarships for religious schoolsEspinoza v. Montana Dept. of RevenueThis case was about Montana’s tax-credit scholarship program for private school tuition and the state’s decision to bar families from using those scholarships at religious schools. The parents argued that excluding religious schools, and then striking down the whole program because religious schools might benefit, unlawfully discriminated against religion.Decided Jun 30, 202018-1195 DecidedGeneric .com trademarksPatent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V.The Supreme Court agreed with the lower court (affirmed) that adding “.com” to a generic word does not automatically make the combined name generic. It decided that BOOKING.COM is generic only if consumers understand it as the name of a class of services, not as identifying a particular business.Decided Jun 30, 202019-46 DecidedState power over presidential electorsChiafalo v. WashingtonThis case asked whether Washington could fine presidential electors who broke their pledge and voted for someone other than the candidate who won the State’s popular vote in the 2016 election. The Supreme Court held that states may enforce those pledges and punish so-called faithless electors.Decided Jul 6, 202019-465 DecidedPower to fire agency leadersSeila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection BureauThe Supreme Court wiped out the Ninth Circuit’s judgment and sent the case back to that court (vacated and remanded). The dispute involved the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s demand for information from Seila Law and whether the Bureau’s single-director structure violated constitutional rules dividing government power, or whether its removal protection could be separated from Dodd-Frank.Decided Jul 8, 202019-7 DecidedState power on tribal landMcGirt v. OklahomaJimcy McGirt, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, challenged Oklahoma’s authority to prosecute him for crimes committed within the Nation’s historic boundaries. The Supreme Court overturned the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals’ judgment and held that land reserved for the Creek Nation since the 19th century remains “Indian country,” meaning federal Indian-law rules apply there.Decided Jul 9, 202018-9526 DecidedState subpoenas of presidentsTrump v. VanceThis case was about whether a New York grand jury could subpoena President Trump’s personal financial records from his accounting firm while he was in office. The Supreme Court held that the President is not absolutely immune from this kind of state criminal subpoena and that prosecutors do not have to meet a special heightened standard just because the subpoena involves a sitting President.Decided Jul 9, 202019-635 DecidedOur Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-BerruThe Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses block courts from deciding Agnes Morrissey-Berru’s age-discrimination claim against Our Lady of Guadalupe School because her teaching included important religious functions. The Court overturned the Ninth Circuit’s ruling and sent the case back to the lower court (reversed and remanded).Decided Jul 8, 202019-267 DecidedLittle Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. PennsylvaniaThis case was about the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employer health plans cover contraception and whether the federal government could create broad exemptions for employers with religious or moral objections. It also asked whether the Little Sisters of the Poor could continue the appeal to defend those exemptions after lower courts blocked them.Decided Jul 8, 202019-431

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