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SCOTUS Rejects Non-Delegation Challenge to FCC Telecom Access Program
In Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the universal-service contribution scheme does not violate the Constitution’s nondelegation doctrine. According to the six-m...
SCOTUS Holds LGBTQ+ Curriculum With No Opt-Out Violates Free Exercise Clause
In Mahmoud v. Taylor, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court sided with parents challenging the Montgomery County Board of Education’s introduction of certain “LGBTQ+- inclusive” storybooks, along with the board’s decision to deny pare...
SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Decision Limits Lower Courts’ Power to Issue Nationwide Injunctions
In Trump v. CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Government’s applications to partially stay three injunctions entered by lower courts blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenshi...
Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Law Banning Transgender Care for Minors
In United States v. Skrmetti, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that Tennessee’s law prohibiting certain medical treatments for transgender minors is not subject to heightened scrutiny under the equal protection clause of the 14th ...
Supreme Court Rejects Mexico’s Suit Against U.S. Gun Manufacturers
In Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Mexican government can’t hold gun manufacturers liable for aiding and abetting gun trafficking and drug cartels that have injured ...
SCOTUS Sides With Employee in Reverse Discrimination Case
In Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Sixth Circuit’s “background circumstances” rule, which requires members of a majority group to satisfy a heightened evidentiary standard t...
Supreme Court Rejects Moment of Threat Doctrine in Deadly Force Case
In Barnes v. Felix, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's "moment of threat" doctrine, which focused solely on the immediate actions leading up to a police officer’s use of force. In so ruling, C...
SCOTUS Holds Wire Fraud Statute Doesn’t Require Proof Victim Suffered Economic Loss
In Kousisis v. United States, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a defendant who induces a victim to enter into a transaction under materially false pretenses may be convicted of federal fraud even if the defendant did not seek t...
SCOTUS Holds Wire Fraud Statute Doesn’t Require Proof Victim Suffered Economic Loss
In Kousisis v. United States, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a defendant who induces a victim to enter into a transaction under materially false pretenses may be convicted of federal fraud even if the defendant did not seek t...
SCOTUS Considers Birthright Citizenship
On May 15, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. CASA, Inc., Trump v. Washington, Trump v. New Jersey, all of which challenge President Donald Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocume...
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Key Cases to Watch During the Supreme Court’s November Sitting
by DONALD SCARINCI on November 5, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court’s November sitting begins on November 3 and concludes on November 12, 2025...
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by DONALD SCARINCI on October 29, 2025
On October 3, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency request from the Trump Administrati...
Supreme Court Cases to Watch in the October Sitting
by DONALD SCARINCI on October 23, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court’s new term, which began on October 6, has the potential to be historic. In...
