Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following two decisions:
United States v. Cooley, No. 19-1414: When a tribal officer saw a truck parked on the side of a public highway within the Crow...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following decision:
San Antonio v. Hotels.com, L.P., No. 20-334: Although the general rule in litigation is that each side bears its own attorney’s fees, certain...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following two decisions:
Guam v. United States, No. 20-382: The Territory of Guam and the United States have been involved in a long-running dispute over...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following four decisions:
BP p.l.c. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, No. 19-1189: Congress has commanded that generally, an order remanding a case back to...more
5/18/2021
/ Appeals ,
Certiorari ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Criminal Procedure ,
Firearms ,
Income Taxes ,
IRS ,
Jury Verdicts ,
Law Enforcement ,
Officer Removal ,
Petition for Writ of Certiorari ,
Post Conviction Relief Act ,
Remand ,
SCOTUS ,
Search Warrant
Niz-Chavez v. Garland, No. 19-863: Congress has given the Attorney General discretion to allow qualifying nonpermanent resident aliens ordered to be removed from the United States, to instead remain in the country. One of the...more
Houston Community College System v. Wilson, No. 20-804: Does the First Amendment restrict the authority of an elected body to issue a censure resolution in response to a member’s speech?...more
AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC, No. 19-508: Petitioner Scott Tucker controlled a number of companies offering short-term payday loans. The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) brought suit, claiming that Tucker and his...more
4/23/2021
/ Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Appointments Clause ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Disability Benefits ,
Federal Sentencing Guidelines ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FTC Act ,
Lucia v SEC ,
Minors ,
Payday Loans ,
Social Security Administration (SSA)
Hemphill v. New York, No. 20-637: Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant who opens the door to responsive evidence also forfeits his right to exclude evidence otherwise barred by the Confrontation Clause....more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following decision:
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., No. 18-956: Petitioner Google LLC developed the Android software platform for smartphone devices, with the...more
Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, No. 19-511: The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (“TCPA”) provides a private right of action for those subject to the unlawful use of an “automatic telephone dialing system,” defined in the...more
4/2/2021
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Broadcasting ,
Facebook ,
Facebook Inc v Duguid ,
FCC ,
Florida v Georgia ,
Jurisdiction ,
Public Interest ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Authority ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications Act ,
Water Supplies
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following decision:
Mays v. Hines, No. 20-507: A Tennessee jury convicted respondent Anthony Hines of murdering a woman at the motel at which she worked. Decades...more
Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial Dist., No. 19-368; Ford Motor Co. v. Bandemer, No. 19-369: In two separate products liability actions, petitioner Ford Motor Company challenged the Montana and Minnesota State courts’...more
Servotronics, Inc. v. Rolls-Royce PLC, No. 20-794: Whether the discretion granted to district courts in 28 U.S.C. §1782(a) to render assistance in gathering evidence for use in “a foreign or international tribunal”...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following decision:
Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, No. 19-968: Petitioner Chike Uzuegbunam, while attending Georgia Gwinnett College – a public college – sought to...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following two decisions:
United States Fish and Wildlife Serv. v. Sierra Club, Inc., No. 19-547: The Sierra Club submitted Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”)...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in two cases:
United States v. Vaello-Madero, No. 20-303: Whether Congress violated the equal-protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth...more
Brownback v. King, No. 19-546: Under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), a plaintiff is allowed to bring certain state-law tort suits against the Federal Government in federal court. An FTCA claim is actionable if it...more
American Medical Assn. v. Cochran, No. 20-429; Cochran v. Mayor and City Council Baltimore, No. 20-454; and Oregon v. Cochran, No. 20-539: In 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) promulgated a rule that,...more
2/23/2021
/ Affordable Care Act ,
American Medical Association ,
Armed Career Criminal Act ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Family Planning Clinics ,
Final Rules ,
Health Care Providers ,
Public Charge ,
SCOTUS ,
Title X
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following three decisions:
Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, No. 19-351: In this Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”) case, the respondents - heirs of...more
2/4/2021
/ Appeals ,
Art Collections ,
Certiorari ,
Eminent Domain ,
Fine Art ,
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA) ,
Forum Non Conveniens ,
Germany ,
Judicial Review ,
Jurisdiction ,
Natural Gas Act ,
Railroad Retirement Tax Act (RRTA) ,
Railroads ,
Remand ,
Retirement Plan ,
SCOTUS ,
Stolen Goods ,
Vacated
Chicago v. Fulton, No. 19-357: Under the Bankruptcy Code, filing a bankruptcy petition creates a bankruptcy estate and also operates as a stay on any entity’s efforts to collect from the debtor outside the bankruptcy forum....more
Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., No. 20-440: Whether a defendant in a patent infringement action who assigned the patent, or is in privity with an assignor of the patent, may have a defense of invalidity heard on the...more
1/11/2021
/ Affirmative Defenses ,
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) ,
CARES Act ,
CERCLA ,
Contribution Claims ,
Criminal Procedure ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure ,
Free Speech ,
Freedom of Association ,
NAACP ,
Non-Citizens ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Plain Error ,
Public Schools ,
Removal Orders ,
SCOTUS ,
Temporary Protected Status ,
Tribal Corporations ,
U.S. Treasury
Trump v. New York, No. 20-366: In July 2020, the President of the United States issued a memorandum to the Secretary of Commerce (who is tasked with taking the census and reporting the tabulation to the President, who in turn...more
TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, No. 20-297: Whether either Article III or Rule 23 permits a damages class action where the vast majority of the class suffered no actual injury, let alone an injury anything like what the class...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following two decisions:
Texas v. New Mexico, No. 65, Orig.: The States of New Mexico and Texas are parties to the 1949 Pecos River Compact, which provides for...more
Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Assn., No. 18-540: Arkansas’ Act 900 regulates the price at which pharmacy benefit managers (“PBMs”) reimburse pharmacies for the cost of drugs covered by prescription-drug plans....more
12/11/2020
/ Appeals ,
Criminal Penalties ,
Drug Pricing ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Judicial Appointments ,
Military Service Members ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Preemption ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Rape ,
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) ,
SCOTUS ,
State Constitutions