Recent Decisions
West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (June 30, 2022)
The “best system of emission reduction” identified by the EPA in the Clean Power Plan was not within the authority granted to the Agency in Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act.
Biden v. Texas (June 30, 2022)
The rescission of the Migrant Protection Protocols (Remain in Mexico policy) did not violate the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety (June 29, 2022)
In a case under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, Texas is not protected by sovereign immunity; by ratifying the Constitution, the state agreed that its sovereignty would yield to the national power to raise and support the Armed Forces.
Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta (June 29, 2022)
The federal government and the state have concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed by non-Indians against Indians in Indian country.
Concepcion v. United States (June 27, 2022)
The First Step Act of 2018 allows district courts to consider intervening changes of law or fact in exercising their discretion to reduce a sentence.
Latest Supreme Court News
Review: “Democratic Justice,” by Brad Snyder
The New York Times,
“Democratic Justice,” Brad Snyder’s comprehensive biography of Felix Frankfurter, aims to reassess the complicated legacy of the judge and political adviser.
Counselor to the Chief Justice Jeffrey P. Minear Retirement Announcement
Supreme Court of the United States,
The Court today announced that Jeffrey P. Minear will retire from his position as Counselor to the Chief Justice of the United States, effective September 30, 2022. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., appointed Mr. Minear to that position in 2006, following Mr. Minear’s previous government service in the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States, where he argued 56 cases before the Supreme Court. The Counselor is charged by statute with performing “such duties as may be...
New York Officials Designate Times Square a ‘Gun-Free Zone’
The New York Times,
The rule, part of a new gun law passed by New York State, comes in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that struck down a century-old law that had strictly limited carrying handguns in public.
As New York’s Gun Law Goes Into Effect, Demand for Permits Spikes
The New York Times,
Those who want to carry concealed weapons will have to undertake 16 hours of classroom training and provide character references.
SCOTUS Animal Welfare Case Could Implicate State Power to Ban Abortion Pills
Justia's Verdict,
Cornell Law professor Michael C. Dorf comments on a case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court involving a challenge by the pork industry to a California law—Proposition 12—that was adopted by referendum in 2018. Professor Dorf explains why Supreme Court should uphold Prop 12 against the plaintiffs’ “dormant” Commerce Clause claims, and he considers the implications of that holding on state power to ban abortion pills from other states.
Affirmative action cases up first in November argument calendar
SCOTUSblog,
The Supreme Court will kick off its November argument session with the highest-profile cases of that session: challenges to the consideration of race in the admissions process at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. That news came with the release of the November argument... The post Affirmative action cases up first in November argument calendar appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
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