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October 29, 2025 | SCOTUS Clears Way to Terminate Protected Status for Venezuelan Nationals
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SCOTUS Clears Way to Terminate Protected Status for Venezuelan Nationals
On October 3, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency request from the Trump Administration to stay a lower court's decision that had blocked the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan nationals. Under the Court’s rulin...
Supreme Court Cases to Watch in the October Sitting
The U.S. Supreme Court’s new term, which began on October 6, has the potential to be historic. In addition to challenges to President Donald Trump’s presidential power, the justices will take up a range of hot-button issues, such as LGBTQ+ right...
SCOTUS Clears Way for Termination of FTC Commissioner
The U.S. Supreme Court’s emergency order in Trump v. Slaughter, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), allows President Trump to fire FTC Commissioner while litigation over her termination continues. The Court also agreed to consider the case on the merits later t...
U.S. Supreme Court Adds Tariff Case to Docket
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider two lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s new tariff policy, which he implemented earlier this year through a series of executive orders. The cases, Trump v. V.O.S. Selections and Learning Reso...
Supreme Court Stays Order Blocking Roving Immigration Patrols in CA
In Noem v. Perdomo, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency application for stay that temporarily blocks a district court order restricting immigration enforcement in California. The order by U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi...
SCOTUS Holds No Minimum Contacts Required for Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign States Under FSIA
In CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court clarified the requirements to establish personal jurisdiction over foreign states under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA). The just...
SCOTUS Sides With Trump Administration Over NIH Grants Tied to DEI Initiatives
The U.S. Supreme Court continues to issue emergency orders involving legal challenges to policy changes made under President Donald Trump, with the latest being, National Institutes of Health v. American Public Health Association, 606 U.S. ____ (202...
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...
Supreme Court Clarifies Applicability of First Step Act to Vacated Sentences
In Hewitt v. United States, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to defendants whose previous sentences have been vacated and who need to be resentenced following the...
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Supreme Court Cases to Watch in the October Sitting
by DONALD SCARINCI on October 23, 2025The U.S. Supreme Court’s new term, which began on October 6, has the potential to be historic. In...
SCOTUS Clears Way for Termination of FTC Commissioner
by DONALD SCARINCI on October 17, 2025The U.S. Supreme Court’s emergency order in Trump v. Slaughter, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), allows Pres...
U.S. Supreme Court Adds Tariff Case to Docket
by DONALD SCARINCI on October 15, 2025The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider two lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s n...
