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October 8, 2025 | Supreme Court Stays Order Blocking Roving Immigration Patrols in CA

Category: Supreme Court Decisions

Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission: Supreme Court Rules for Baker in Narrow Decision

Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission: Supreme Court Rules for Baker in Narrow Decision

In its highly-anticipated decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court handed a narrow victory to the Colorado baker at the center of the case. By a vote of 7-2, the justices ruled...

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Collins v Virginia: SCOTUS Reigns in Fourth Amendment's Automobile Exception

Collins v Virginia: SCOTUS Reigns in Fourth Amendment’s Automobile Exception

In Collins v Virginia, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court declined to extend the Fourth Amendment’s so-called “automobile exception.” By a vote of 8-1, the justices held that the exception, which allows certain warrantless searches o...

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Epic Systems Corp v Lewis: SCOTUS Upholds Workplace Agreements Banning Class Actions

Epic Systems Corp v Lewis: SCOTUS Upholds Workplace Agreements Banning Class Actions

A sharply-divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled for employers in a closely-watched arbitration case. By a vote of 5-4, the Court held in Epic Systems Corp v Lewis, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), that employment agreements that include class-action waivers are per...

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SCOTUS Strikes Down PASPA in Murphy v National Collegiate Athletic Association

SCOTUS Strikes Down PASPA in Murphy v National Collegiate Athletic Association

In Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA). The decision clears the way for states like New Jersey to legalize sp...

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Jesner v Arab Bank, PLC: Corporations Can't Be Sued Under Alien Tort Statute

Jesner v Arab Bank, PLC: Corporations Can’t Be Sued Under Alien Tort Statute

In Jesner v Arab Bank, PLC, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that foreign corporations may not be defendants in suits brought under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). However, a sharply divided Court did not agree on the reasoning, which...

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Crime-based Removal Provision Struck Down in Sessins v Dimaya

Crime-Based Removal Provision Struck Down in Sessions v Dimaya

In Sessions v Dimaya, a divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 18 U.S.C. § 16(b), that authorizes the deportation of any alien convicted of an “aggravated felony,” which includes a “cri...

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Hall v Hall: Consolidated Cases Remain Independent for Appeal

Hall v Hall: Consolidated Cases Remain Independent for Appeal

In Hall v Hall, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that consolidated cases remain independent for the purposes of filing an appeal. The Court’s decision was unanimous. Facts of Hall v Hall  Respondent Samuel Hall served as careta...

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Landmark Takings Case of Lingle v Chevron USA Inc

Landmark Takings Case of Lingle v Chevron USA Inc

In Lingle v Chevron USA Inc, 544 U.S. 528 (2005), the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the precedent established in Agins v. City of Tiburon, 447 U. S. 255 (1980), which held that a regulation does not amount to an unconstitutional taking "if it does...

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Digital Realty Trust v Somers: SCOTUS Limits Protection Under Dodd-Frank

SCOTUS Decision Limits Whistleblower Protection under Dodd-Frank in Digital Realty Trust v Somers

The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that Dodd-Frank’s anti-retaliation provision does not extend to individuals who have not reported a federal securities violation laws to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Court’s decision in Di...

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Rubin v Islamic Republic of Iran: Terror Victims Lack Recourse

Rubin v Islamic Republic of Iran: Terror Victims Lack Recourse

In Rubin v Islamic Republic of Iran, 583 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that Section 1610(g) of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 does not provide a freestanding basis for parties holding a judgment under Section 1605A to a...

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by DONALD SCARINCI on October 2, 2025

In CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court ...

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SCOTUS Rejects Challenge to South Carolina’s Exclusion of Planned Parenthood from State Medicaid Program
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The Amendments

  • Amendment1
    • Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
    • Freedom of Speech
    • Freedoms of Press
    • Freedom of Assembly, and Petitition
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    • The Right to Bear Arms
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    • Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
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Preamble to the Bill of Rights

Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

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