Category: Current

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...

In Counterman v. Colorado, 600 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that to establish that a statement is a “true threat” unprotected by the First Amendment, the state must prove that the defendant had some subjective understanding of t...

In United States v. Texas, 599 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. According to the eight-member majority, “federal courts are ...

In Durbin v. United States, 599 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the scope of a federal aggravated identity theft statute. The justices unanimously held that a defendant “uses” another person’s means of identification “in re...

In Tyler v. Hennepin County, 598 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the government can’t keep the profits of properties sold to satisfy tax debts. Accordingly, Geraldine Tyler plausibly alleged that Hennepin County unconstitutiona...

In National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, 598 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to a California animal welfare law that requires pork sold in the state to come from humanely raised pigs. According to the ...

In Reed v. Goertz,598 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that death row inmate Rodney Reed did not wait too long to seek DNA testing of the evidence in his case. According to the Court majority, when a prisoner pursues state post-convicti...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, 598 U.S. ____ (2023), allows federal district courts to consider constitutional challenges to administrative proceedings prior to the issuance of final rulings...