Category: Supreme Court Decisions

In Pulsifer v. United States, 601 U.S. ____ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly interpreted 18 U.S.C. §3553(f ), which establishes eligibility for a “safety valve” for defendants to avoid mandatory minimum prison sentences. By a vote of 6-3...

In McElrath v. Georgia, 601 U.S. ____ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the State of Georgia can’t retry a defendant acquitted of murder by reason of insanity. The justices unanimously held that the jury’s verdict that Damian McElrath was...

In FBI v. Fikre, 601 U.S. ____ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court held that Yonas Fikre’s lawsuit against the FBI is not moot. Accordingly, his suit alleging that the government placed him on the No Fly List unlawfully may proceed in the lower courts....

In Lindke v. Freed, 601 U.S. ____ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public officials may be held liable for their social media activity in certain circumstances. The justices unanimously held that speech by a government official about job-r...

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in Trump v. Anderson, 601 U.S. ____ (2024), that states can’t remove former President Donald Trump from 2024 presidential primary ballots for his role in the events of January 6, 2021. In a per curium opinio...

In Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz, 601 U.S. ____ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a consumer may sue a federal agency under 15 U.S.C. §§ 1681n and 1681o for failing to comply with the terms of th...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued the term’s first decision in an argued case. In Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, 601 U.S. ____ (2023), the Court unanimously held the case is moot, declining to reach a closely watched issue of “tester” sta...

In Allen v. Milligan, 599 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that challengers showed a reasonable likelihood of success on their claim that an Alabama Congressional redistricting plan likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. I...

In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and SFFA v. University of North Carolina, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the college admissions programs of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The Court held that the rac...

In U.S. ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc., 598 U. S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the False Claims Act's scienter element — which asks whether a defendant “knowingly” submitted a “false” claim to the government — refers ...