Supreme Court Decision Syllabus (SCOTUS Podcast)
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Supreme Court Decision Syllabus (SCOTUS Podcast)
Following what the Supreme Court is actually doing can be daunting. Reporting on the subject is often only done within the context of political narratives of the day -- and following the Court's decisions and reading every new case can be a non-starter. The purpose of this Podcast is to make it as e...
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Abouammo v. United States (venue)
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In a unanimous opinion by Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court held that a prosecution for falsifying a document in violation of 18...
FCC v. AT&T (Seventh Amendment)
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The Supreme Court held that the FCC’s procedure for assessing monetary forfeitures against regulated entities does not violate...
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Amarin Pharma Inc. (Patent infringement)
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In a unanimous opinion by Justice Jackson, the Supreme Court held that Amarin failed to plausibly allege that Hikma actively in...
SRIPETCH v. SEC (Disgorgement)
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A showing of pecuniary loss to investors is not required before the SEC may obtain a disgorgement award.
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Whitton v. Dixon (Habeas Corpus)
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If anyone thinks I am pronouncing Giglio incorrectly, please see: https://documents.law.yale.edu/pronouncing-dictionary
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Rutherford v. United States (Compassionate Relief)
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Held: When Congress declines to make a sentencing amendment retroactive—as with the change to §924(c)—the resulting sentencing...
Allen v. Milligan (Voting Rights)
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In a brief per curiam order, the Supreme Court stayed a federal district court injunction that would have prevented Alabama fro...
FERNANDEZ v. UNITED STATES (Compassionate relief v Habeas)
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Held: A prisoner who collaterally attacks the validity of his conviction must proceed through 28 U. S. C. §2255, not 18 U. S. C...
Pitchford v. Cain (Batson claim)
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In a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court held that the Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably rejected death-row inmate Terry Pitch...
Margolin v. National Assoc. of Immigration Judges (party presentation)
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The Supreme Court in Margolin v. National Association of Immigration Judges reversed the Fourth Circuit for violating the princ...
M & K Employee Solutions, Inc. v. Trustees of IAM Nat. Pension
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Actuaries should probably use the best/most recent predictions about future stuff, and we should not try to tell them not to.
MONTGOMERY v. CARIBE TRANSPORT II, LLC
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A claim that one company negligently hired another to transport goods is not preempted by the FAAAA because States retain autho...
HAVANA DOCKS CORP. v. ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES
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Held: The cruise lines’ use of the docks is sufficient to establish that they used “property which was confiscated by the Cuba...
JULES v. ANDRE BALAZS PROPERTIES (ARBITRATION, CIVIL PROCEDURE, FEDERAL COURT JURISDICTION)
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A federal court that has previously stayed claims in a pending ac tion under §3 of the FAA has jurisdiction to confirm or vaca...
FIRST CHOICE WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTERS v. DAVENPORT, A.G. OF NEW JERSEY (1A and donor records)
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First Choice has established a present injury to its First Amend ment associational rights sufficient to confer Article III st...
Louisiana v. Callais (§2 of the Voting Rights Act)
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In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court held that Louisiana’s congressional map (SB8), which created an additional majority-...
ENBRIDGE ENERGY, LP v. NESSEL
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Because §1446(b)(1)’s text, structure, and context are inconsistent with equitable tolling, Enbridge’s removal was untimely. P...
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. R.W. (PROBABLE CAUSE TO STOP/TERRY STOP/VEHICLE)
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Totality of the Circumstances is required in considering Probable Cause for a temporary stop. Probable Cause being defined as:...
Hencely v. Fluor Corp (Wartime contractor immunity)
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A U.S. Army specialist injured while stopping a Taliban suicide bomber at a base in Afghanistan sued military contractor Fluor...
Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish
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Chevron has plausibly alleged a close relationship between its challenged crude-oil production and the performance of its fede...
Chiles v. Salazar (First Amendment & talk therapy)
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The Court held that Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy,” as applied to a licensed counselor providing only talk therapy, lik...
Rico v. United States (tolling supervised release)
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The Supreme Court held that the Sentencing Reform Act does not permit courts to automatically extend a defendant’s term of sup...
Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment (Secondary Copyright infringment--Contributory Liablity)
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The provider of a service is contributorily liable for a user’s infringement only if it intended that the provided service be u...
Zorn v. Linton (Qualified Immunity)
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2nd Circuit held an officer was not entitled to qualified immunity, the Supreme Court Disagrees and Reverses the order of the 2...
OLIVIER v. CITY OF BRANDON (§1983 Suits to enjoin future prosecution).
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a claim for “prospective injunctive relief ”—the use of fairer procedures in the future—may “properly be brought under §1983,”...
Urias-Orellana v. Bondi (Level of Deference for Immigration Appeals)
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In Urias‑Orellana v. Bondi, the Supreme Court unanimously held that courts of appeals must apply the substantial-evidence stand...
Galette v. New Jersey Transit (Sovereign Immunity)
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In 1979, the New Jersey Legislature created the New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) as a “body corporate and politic wi...
MIRABELLI v. BONTA (TRANSGENDER AND FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION)
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It's a ruling about procedure, but they'd like you to know how they believe the Court below should rule. That Free Exercise of...
Villareal v. Texas (Sixth Amendment right to counsel)
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In a decision affirming the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the Supreme Court held that a trial court may, during an overnight...
GEO Group v. Menocal (Civil Procedure/Appealability)
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Petitioner GEO Group operates a private detention facility in Aurora, Colorado, under a contract with U. S. Immigration and Cus...
Hain Celestial Group, Inc. v. Palmquist (Civil Procedure and DIVERSITY JURISDICTION)
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Held: Because the District Court’s erroneous dismissal of Whole Foods did not cure the jurisdictional defect that existed when...
Postal Service v. Konan (Sov. Immunity/FTCA)
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The Fed Government retains sovereign immunity under the FTCA for intentional non-delivery of mail.
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LEARNING RESOURCES, INC. v. TRUMP (President's Tariff Authority)
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No one Authorized President Trump to impose these "Emergency" Tariffs under the IEEPA (International Emergency Economic Powers...
KLEIN v. MARTIN (AEDPA STANDARDS AGAIN)
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The Court Below granted relief when it should have not.
Judge Niemeyer of the 4th Circuit was the lone dissent--contendin...
Ellingberg v. United States (Restitution & Ex Post Facto Clause)
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The Court unanimously held that restitution imposed under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act is a form of criminal punishme...
CONEY ISLAND AUTO PARTS v. BURTON, (Bankruptcy, Civil Procedure, Void Judgement vs. Time Limits)
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an appeal of a VOID judgement under federal rule 60 is still subject to the statutory text's "within a reasonable time" limit.<...
Doe v. Dynamic Physical Therapy, LLC
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State Courts may not grant releif from FEDERAL causes of action by reference to state statute.
BOWE v. UNITED STATES
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1. The Court has jurisdiction because §2244(b)(3)(E) does not bar this Court’s review of a federal prisoner’s request to file a...
BARRETT v. UNITED STATES (Hobbs Act Robbery/Blockburger Test)
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Supreme Court refuses to assume that Congress intended to disregard Blockburger and allow someone to be convicted of two crimes...