Category: Supreme Court Decisions

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In FDA v. R. J. Reynolds Vapor Co., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that e-cigarette retailers who would sell the products if not for the FDA’s denial order may seek judicial review of that order in the Fifth Circuit Court of App...