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Case: 19-71 TANZIN V. TANVIR (2020-Oct-6)
QUESTION PRESENTED: 1. Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C. 2000bbet seq., permits suits seeking money damages against individual federal ...
Case: 19-309 CARNEY V. ADAMS (2020-Oct-05)
QUESTION PRESENTED: 1. Does the First Amendment invalidate a longstanding state constitutional provision that limits judges affiliated with any one political party to...
SIDEBAR - Supreme Court Appointment Process
This episode discusses the Supreme Court appointment process. U.S. Constitution assigns explicit roles in the Supreme Court appointment process only to the President a...
SIDEBAR - The Death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
This Episode highlights several areas of law where Justice Ginsburg—either by authoring or joining a majority opinion or a notable dissent—proved consequential to the ...
SIDEBAR - Supreme Court Rules CFPB Structure Unconstitutional: Implications for Congress
On June 29, 2020, in the case Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Supreme Court held in a five-to-four decision that the statutory provision ...
SIDEBAR - Supreme Court: DACA Rescission Violated the APA
On June 18, 2020, in the case Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, the Supreme Court held in a five-to-four decision that the re...
SIDEBAR - Supreme Court Rules Title VII Bars Discrimination Against Gay and Transgender Employees: Potential Implications
On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court issued a decision in a series of cases brought by gay and transgender workers alleging that their employers violated Title VII of t...
SIDEBAR - Supreme Court Permits Retroactive Punitive Damages Against Sudan in Terrorism Cases
More than two decades after the U.S. embassies bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, some plaintiffs who alleged that Sudanese support of Al Qaeda contributed to the attacks...
SIDEBAR - No Judicial Review of Certain Patent Office Decisions, Supreme Court Holds
In 2011, Congress enacted major patent reform in the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). The AIA, among other things, created inter partes review (IPR), an adversar...
SIDEBAR - High Court Tosses Bridgegate Convictions
On May 7, 2020, a unanimous Supreme Court threw out the federal fraud convictions of two former New Jersey officials whose politically motivated scheme redirected acce...
SIDEBAR - Copyright and State Sovereign Immunity - The Allen v. Cooper Decision
On March 23, 2020, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Allen v. Cooper, concluding that Congress lacked the authority to enact the Copyright Remedy Clarification A...
Case: 19-518 Colorado Dept. of State v. Baca (2020-May-13)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Like most States, Colorado requires its presidential electors to follow the will of its voters when casting their Electoral College ballots for Pre...
Case: 19-465 Chiafalo v. Washington (2020-May-13)
QUESTION PRESENTED: A Washington State law threatens a fine for presidential electors who vote contrary to how the law directs. RCW 29A.56.340 (2016). Petitioners are ...
Case: 19-635 Trump v. Vance (2020-May-12)
QUESTION PRESENTED: The District Attorney for the County of New York is conducting a criminal investigation that, by his own admission, targets the President of the Un...
Case: 19-715 Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP [and Trump V. Deutsche Bank AG] (2020-May-12)
19-715 TRUMP V. MAZARS USA, LLP The Committee on Oversight and Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives has issued a subpoena to the accountant for President Trump ...
Case: 19-267 Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru [ST. JAMES SCHOOL V. BIEL] (2020-May-11)
19-267 OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE SCHOOL V. MORRISSEY-BERRU The First Amendment's Religion Clauses forbid government interference in a religious group's selection of its mi...
Case: 18-9526 McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020-May-11)
QUESTION PRESENTED: WHETHER OKLAHOMA COURTS CAN CONTINUE TO UNLAWFULLY EXERCISE, UNDER STATE LAW, CRIMINAL JURISDICTION AS"JUSTICIABLE MATTER" IN INDIAN COUNTRY OVER I...
Case: 19-631 Barr v. American Assn. of Political Consultants, Inc. (2020-May-06)
QUESTION PRESENTED: The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA), Pub. L. No. 102-243, 105 Stat. 2394, generally prohibits the use of any "automatic telephone ...
Case: 19-431 LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR V. PENNSYLVANIA (and 19-454 TRUMP V. PENNSYLVANIA)
19-431 LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR V. PENNSYLVANIA Since 2011, federal courts have repeatedly considered whether forcing religious objectors to provide health plans tha...
Case: 19-177 Agency for Int’l Development v. Alliance for Open Society Int’l, Inc. (2020-May-05)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Respondents are United States-based organizations that receive federal funds to fight HIV/AIDS abroad. In Agency for International Development v. A...
Case: 19-46 Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V. (2020-May-04)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq., generic terms may not be registered as trademarks. The question presented is as follows: Whether...
Case: 18-1323 June Medical Services L.L.C. v. Russo (2020-March-04)
CONSOLIDATED WITH 18-1460 AND A TOTAL OF ONE HOUR IS ALLOTTED FOR ORAL ARGUMENT Case: 18-1323 QUESTION PRESENTED: In Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, 136 S. Ct. 22...
Case: 18-1501 Liu v. SEC (2020-March-03)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission may seek and obtain disgorgement from a court as "equitable relief" for a securities law violation ...
Case: 19-7 Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2020-March-03)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether the vesting of substantial executive authority in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency led by a single director...
Case: 19-161 Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam (2020-March-02)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Respondent is an inadmissible alien who was apprehended almost immediately after illegally crossing the U.S. border and was placed into expedited r...
Case: 18-1432 Nasrallah v. Barr (2020-March-02)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Because of the United States' inviolable obligation not to deport individuals to countries in which they are likely to be subject to torture, indiv...
Case: 18-8369 Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez (2020-Feb-26)
QUESTION PRESENTED: A dismissal of a civil action without prejudice for failure to state a claim, is it or is it not a strike under 28 U.S.C. 1915(g)? Courts have hel...
Case: 19-67 United States v. Sineneng-Smith (2020-Feb-25)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, i...
Case: 17-1268 Opati v. Republic of Sudan (2020-Feb-24)
QUESTION PRESENTED: The questions presented are: Whether a party which knowingly and intentionally twice defaults, acts to delay and not in good faith, and affirmat...
Case: 18-1584 United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Ass'n (2020-Feb-24)
Case: 18-1584 U.S. FOREST SERVICE V. COWPASTURE RIVER ASSN QUESTION PRESENTED: The Appalachian National Scenic Trail (Appalachian Trail) is more than 2000 miles long, ...