Category: Supreme Court Decisions

In Hunter v. United States, 608 U.S. ____ (2026), the U.S. Supreme Court held that an agreement not to appeal a sentence is unenforceable when it would result in a “miscarriage of justice,” which is an egregious error that would bring the judici...

In Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, 609 U.S. ___ (2026), the U.S. Supreme Court held that prisoners can’t sue individual officers for monetary damages under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (...

In Pung v. Isabella County, 609 U.S. ____ (2026), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the proper baseline for measuring “just compensation” following a fairly conducted tax sale is the auction sale price, not the property’s hypothetical fair mark...

In Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe, 609 U.S. ___ (2026), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts can’t create new causes of action under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). It further held that neither the ATS nor the Torture Victim Protection Act ...

In Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, 609 U.S. ___ (2026), the U.S. Supreme Court held that an alien standing in Mexico does not “arriv[e] in the United States” by attempting, and failing, to set foot in this country. Rather, an alien “arrives in the Uni...

In Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, 609 U.S. ___ (2026), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) expressly preempts state-law failure-to-warn claims targeting pesticide labels approved by the Environm...

In Watson v. Republican National Committee, 609 U.S. ___ (2026), the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal election-day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days therea...

In Chatrie v. United States, 609 U.S. ___ (2026), the U.S. Supreme Court held that law enforcement acquisition of a user's cell-phone location data via a geofence warrant constitutes a "search" under the Fourth Amendment. Facts of the Case On ...

In West Virginia v. B.P.J., 609 U.S. ___ (2026), the U.S. Supreme Court held that Title IX allows schools to provide separate women’s and men’s sports teams defined by biological sex. Accordingly, it further found that West Virginia and Idaho di...

In National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, 609 U.S. ____ (2026), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Federal Election Campaign Act’s restrictions on a political party’s spending on campaign activities in coordin...