Month: August 2023

In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 600 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring corporations operating within their borders to consent to personal jurisdiction when they register to do bu...

In Smith v. the United States, 599 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district. Fa...

In Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic Int’l, Inc., 600 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the trademark infringement provisions of the Lanham Act do not apply extraterritorially, but rather extend only to claims where the infringing ...

In Smith v. the United States, 599 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district. Fa...

In Groff v. DeJoy, 600 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court modified the religious accommodation standard under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which requires employers to accommodate the religious practice of their employees unless doing so ...

In Biden v. Nebraska, 600 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness program. Relying on “ordinary tools of statutory interpretation,” the six-member majority found that the Secreta...