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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...
SCOTUS Rules E-Cigarette Retailers Can Challenge FDA Order in Fifth Circuit
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...
Supreme Court Expands Judicial Review of Agency Actions
In McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corp., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Hobbs Act does not bind district courts in civil enforcement proceedings to an agency’s interpretation of a statute. Rather, ...
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 ...
Supreme Court Pauses Order Reinstating CPSC Commissioners
In Trump v. Boyle, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump Administration’s emergency request to pause a lower court order that required the reinstatement of three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Echoing i...
SCOTUS Grants Death Row Inmate New Trial in Glossip v. Oklahoma
In Glossip v. Oklahoma, 604 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted death row inmate Richard Glossip a new trial. The Court ruled that a new trial was warranted because prosecutors violated their obligation to correct false testimony, and t...
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...
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Supreme Court Clarifies Applicability of First Step Act to Vacated Sentences
by DONALD SCARINCI on September 4, 2025In 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 onIn FDA v. R. J. Reynolds Vapor Co., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that e-cigare...
Supreme Court Expands Judicial Review of Agency Actions
by DONALD SCARINCI onIn McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corp., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supre...
