Recent Decisions
Golan v. Saada (June 15, 2022)
Arizona v. City and County of San Francisco (June 15, 2022)
George v. McDonough (June 15, 2022)
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas (June 15, 2022)
Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana (June 15, 2022)
American Hospital Association v. Becerra (June 15, 2022)
Garland v. Gonzalez (June 13, 2022)
Immigration and Nationality Act section 1252(f )(1) deprived district courts of jurisdiction to entertain detained aliens’ requests for class-wide injunctive relief.
ZF Automotive U. S., Inc. v. Luxshare, Ltd. (June 13, 2022)
Only a governmental or intergovernmental adjudicative body constitutes a “foreign or international tribunal” under 28 U.S.C. 1782, which authorizes a district court to order the production of evidence “for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal.”
Kemp v. United States (June 13, 2022)
The term “mistake” in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(1), which authorizes a court to reopen a final judgment, includes a judge’s errors of law.
Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez (June 13, 2022)
The government is not required to provide noncitizens, detained for six months, with bond hearings in which the government bears the burden of proving, by clear and convincing evidence, that a noncitizen poses a flight risk or a danger to the community.
Denezpi v. United States (June 13, 2022)
The Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar successive prosecutions of distinct offenses arising from a single act, even if a single sovereign prosecutes them.
Egbert v. Boule (June 8, 2022)
The "Bivens" authority to create a damages action against federal agents for violating a plaintiff’s constitutional rights does not extend to create causes of action against a border patrol agent for Fourth Amendment excessive force and First Amendment retaliation.
Latest Supreme Court News
Supreme Court Dismisses Bid by G.O.P.-Led States to Defend Trump Immigration Plan
The New York Times,
The case concerned revisions to the “public charge” rule that made it harder for immigrants who had relied on public assistance to gain permanent legal status.
House Approves Supreme Court Security Bill, Sending It to Biden
The New York Times,
A measure extending police protection to the immediate families of Supreme Court justices passed the House overwhelmingly.
The Federalist Society Has Helped Create a Corporate-Friendly Court That Hurts U.S. Workers
The New York Times,
Can the right really be realigned with the working class?
Justice Alito’s Opinion on Abortion: Not Just a Threat to Reproductive Rights, but to All Constitutional Liberties Not Expressly Set Out in the Constitution
Justia's Verdict,
Attorney Jon May argues that the reasoning of Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked majority draft of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org. poses a threat not only to reproductive rights, but to all constitutional liberties not expressly enumerated in the Constitution. Mr. May points out that the radical departure of Justice Alito’s opinion could pave the way for the Court to overturn numerous rights recognized over the past seventy years deriving from the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Supreme Court Rejects Bail Hearings for Jailed Immigrants
The New York Times,
A federal law, the justices ruled, does not require immigration judges to consider whether immigrants may be released while their challenges are pending.
Press Release
Supreme Court of the United States,
Yesterday, a news organization published a copy of a draft opinion in a pending case. Justices circulate draft opinions internally as a routine and essential part of the Court’s confidential deliberative work. Although the document described in yesterday’s reports is authentic, it does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., provided the following statement: To the extent this betrayal...
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