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Supreme Court’s Landmark Affirmative Action Decision Strikes Down Raced-Based Admissions
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...
SCOTUS Clarifies Scienter Standard for False Claims Act Cases
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 ...
Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Encouraging Illegal Immigration
In United States v. Hansen, 599 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law that criminalizes “encouraging or inducing” an immigrant to come or remain in the United States unlawfully. According to the Court, the law does not r...
Supreme Court Upholds Corporate Personal Jurisdiction Laws
In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 600 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring corporations operating within their borders to consent to personal jurisdiction when they register to do bu...
SCOTUS Rules Retrial Is Constitutional After Conviction in Improper Venue
In Smith v. the United States, 599 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district. Fa...
SCOTUS Limits Foreign Reach of Trademark Law
In Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic Int’l, Inc., 600 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the trademark infringement provisions of the Lanham Act do not apply extraterritorially, but rather extend only to claims where the infringing ...
SCOTUS Rules Retrial Is Constitutional After Conviction in Improper Venue
In Smith v. the United States, 599 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district. Fa...
Student Loan Forgiveness Program Fails to Survive Supreme Court Scrutiny
In Biden v. Nebraska, 600 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness program. Relying on “ordinary tools of statutory interpretation,” the six-member majority found that the Secreta...
SCOTUS Rules Website Designer Can Refuse Same-Sex Customers
In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, 600 U.S. ____ (2023), a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees. “T...
SCOTUS Narrows Reach of Identity Fraud Statute
In Durbin v. United States, 599 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the scope of a federal aggravated identity theft statute. The justices unanimously held that a defendant “uses” another person’s means of identification “in re...
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SCOTUS Rules State Can’t Immunize Parties from Federal Civil Liability
by DONALD SCARINCI on January 29, 2026
In John Doe v. Dynamic Physical Therapy, LLC, 607 U.S. ____ (2025) the U.S. Supreme Court held that...
Supreme Court to Address Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection
by DONALD SCARINCI on
While the U.S. Supreme Court has concluded oral arguments for the year, it continues to add cases t...
Supreme Court Halts Deployment of National Guard to Chicago
by DONALD SCARINCI on
In Trump v. Illinois, 607 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay a district court...
