Recent Decisions
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of New York (April 27, 2020)
Supreme Court vacates a decision concerning a New York City rule regarding the transport of firearms in light of a change in the rule and remands for consideration of new arguments.
Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. (April 27, 2020)
Non-binding annotations found in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated are not eligible for copyright protection.
Maine Community Health Options v. United States (April 27, 2020)
The government is required to pay health insurance companies that incurred losses under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's "Risk Corridors" program.
Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc. (April 23, 2020)
A plaintiff in a trademark infringement suit is not required to show that a defendant willfully infringed the plaintiff’s trademark as a precondition to a profits award.
County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (April 23, 2020)
Supreme Court addresses the definitions of "discharge" into "navigable waters" under the Clean Water Act and enumerates the factors that will establish a "functional equivalent of a direct discharge" through groundwater.
Latest Supreme Court News
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized for Gallbladder Treatment
The New York Times,
The Supreme Court said she expected to participate in Wednesday’s oral arguments by telephone from the hospital.
Argument preview: Justices to weigh constitutionality of “faithless elector” laws
SCOTUSblog,
Voters in the United States do not directly elect the president and the vice president. Instead, the Constitution instructs the states to appoint “electors,” who vote for the president and vice president. In Washington and Colorado, along with almost all other states, the electors are appointed from the same political party as the ticket that…
Supreme Court Weighs Anti-Prostitution Pledge for AIDS Grants
The New York Times,
In 2013, the Supreme Court said requiring domestic groups to take the pledge violated the First Amendment. The new case concerned their foreign affiliates.
Argument analysis: Justices debate constitutionality of funding condition by phone
SCOTUSblog,
In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled, by a vote of 6-2, that a provision in a federal law that requires organizations receiving funds to combat HIV/AIDS to “have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking” violates the First Amendment when applied to nongovernmental organizations based in the United States. This morning the justices heard…
Press Release Regarding Justice Ginsburg
Supreme Court of the United States,
Pro-Gun Justices Announce Their Agenda While the Supreme Court Bides It Time on Gun Rights
Justia's Verdict,
Austin Sarat—Associate Provost, Associate Dean of the Faculty and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College—comments on yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court deferring deciding on a Second Amendment issue presented by a New York City law that prohibited gun owners from transporting their guns out of the city. Sarat points out that the issue that divided the Court’s conservative justices in this case was not whether to radically expand the protections of the Second Amendment, but when and how to do so.
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