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SCOTUS Rejects Challenge to South Carolina’s Exclusion of Planned Parenthood from State Medicaid Program
In Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that individual Medicaid beneficiaries can’t sue state officials under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for failing to comply with the Medicaid Act’s any-qualified...
SCOTUS Rules Death Row Inmate Has Standing to Challenge Post Conviction DNA Testing Procedures
In Gutierrez v. Saenz, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S Supreme Court ruled that a death row inmate has standing to bring his claim challenging Texas’s postconviction DNA testing procedures under the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. Facts of...
SCOTUS Lifts Injunction Blocking Trump Administration’s Plans to Reduce Federal Workforce
In Trump v. American Federation of Government Employees, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump Administration’s request to stay a district court order blocking President Donald Trump’s plan to reduce and restructure the ...
SCOTUS Allows Termination of Dept of Education Employees
In McMahon v. New York, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to stay a district court order requiring the government to reinstate Department of Education employees fired as part of a reduction in force. Facts of the Case On Marc...
Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Law
In Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring online publishers with a significant amount of sexually explicit content to verify the age of their users. By a vote of 6-3, the just...
Student Disability Claims are Not Held to a Heightened Standard
In A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that schoolchildren bringing claims related to their education under either Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act or Se...
SCOTUS Rejects Non-Delegation Challenge to FCC Telecom Access Program
In Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the universal-service contribution scheme does not violate the Constitution’s nondelegation doctrine. According to the six-m...
SCOTUS Holds LGBTQ+ Curriculum With No Opt-Out Violates Free Exercise Clause
In Mahmoud v. Taylor, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court sided with parents challenging the Montgomery County Board of Education’s introduction of certain “LGBTQ+- inclusive” storybooks, along with the board’s decision to deny pare...
SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Decision Limits Lower Courts’ Power to Issue Nationwide Injunctions
In Trump v. CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Government’s applications to partially stay three injunctions entered by lower courts blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenshi...
Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Law Banning Transgender Care for Minors
In United States v. Skrmetti, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that Tennessee’s law prohibiting certain medical treatments for transgender minors is not subject to heightened scrutiny under the equal protection clause of the 14th ...
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SCOTUS Rules Death Row Inmate Has Standing to Challenge Post Conviction DNA Testing Procedures
by DONALD SCARINCI on September 11, 2025In Gutierrez v. Saenz, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S Supreme Court ruled that a death row inmate ha...
Supreme Court Clarifies Applicability of First Step Act to Vacated Sentences
by DONALD SCARINCI on September 4, 2025
In Hewitt v. United States, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that the First ...
SCOTUS Rules E-Cigarette Retailers Can Challenge FDA Order in Fifth Circuit
by DONALD SCARINCI on
In FDA v. R. J. Reynolds Vapor Co., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that e-cigare...
