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Case: 19-5807 EDWARDS V. VANNOY (2020-December-02)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether Louisiana's non-unanimous jury requirement for crimes requiring life sentences violates the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of...
Case: 19-930 CIC SERVICES, LLC V. IRS (2020-December-01)
Whether the Anti-Injunction Act’s bar on lawsuits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of taxes also bars challenges to unlawful regulatory mand...
Consolidated Case: 19-416 NESTLE USA, INC. V. DOE I and 19-453 CARGILL, INC. V. DOE I (2020-December-01)
9-453 CARGILL, INC V. DOE I QUESTION PRESENTED: Petitioner Cargill, Incorporated, purchases cocoa beans grown in Cote d'Ivoire. Respondents are Malian citizens...
Case: 20-366 Trump v. New York (2020-November-30)
QUESTION PRESENTED:Whether a group of states and local governments have standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge a July 21, 2020, memorandum by Pres...
Case: 19-783 VAN BUREN V. UNITED STATES (2020-November-30)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud an...
SIDEBAR - California v. Texas - The Fate of the Affordable Care Act
On November 10, 2020, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in California v. Texas (consolidated with the related case Texas v. California), a constitutional challe...
Consolidated Case: 19-840 CALIFORNIA V. TEXAS and 19-1019 TEXAS V. CALIFORNIA (2020-November-10)
QUESTION PRESENTED: As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Congress adopted 26 U.S.C. § 5000A. Section 5000A provided that "applicable i...
Case: 19-546 BROWNBACK V. KING (2020-November-09)
QUESTION PRESENTED: The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. 1346(b), 2671 et seq., waives the sovereign immunity of the United States and creates a cause o...
Case: 19-863 NIZ-CHAVEZ V. BARR, ATTY GEN. (2020-November-09)
QUESTION PRESENTED: The Attorney General can cancel removal of certain immigrants under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b (a) and (b). To be eligible for cancellation of removal, a...
Case: 19-123 FULTON V. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA (2020-November-04)
QUESTION PRESENTED: The City of Philadelphia chose to exclude a religious agency from the City's foster care system unless the agency agreed to act and speak in a ...
Case: 18-1259 JONES V. MISSISSIPPI (2020-November-03)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sen...
Case: 19-5410 BORDEN V. UNITED STATES (2020-November-03)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere...
Case: 19-199 SALINAS V. UNITED STATES RAILROAD RETIREMENT BD (2020-November-02)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether, under section 5(f) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, 45 U.S.C. § 355(f), and section 8 of the Railroad Retirement Act, 45 U...
Case: 19-547 UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERV. V. SIERRA CLUB, INC. (2020-November-02)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(5) (2012), by incorporating the deliberative process privilege, protect...
Case: 19-438 PEREIDA V. BARR (2020-Oct-14)
The question presented is: 1. Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguou...
Case: 19-292 TORRES V. MADRID (2020-Oct-14)
The question presented is: 1. Is an unsuccessful attempt to detain a suspect by use of physical force a "seizure" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, as the...
Case: 19-357 CITY OF CHICAGO V. FULTON (2020-Oct-13)
QUESTION PRESENTED: 1. Whether an entity that is passively retaining possession of property in which a bankruptcy estate has an interest has an affirmative obligati...
Consolidated Case: 19-108 UNITED STATES V. BRIGGS and 19-184 UNITED STATES V. COLLINS (2020-Oct-13)
QUESTION PRESENTED: 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces erred in concluding-contrary to its own longstanding precedent-that the Uniform Code of Mil...
Consolidated Case: 19-368 FORD MOTOR CO. V. MONTANA EIGHTH DISTRICT COURT and 19-369 FORD MOTOR CO. V. BANDEMER (2020-Oct-7)
19-368 FORD MOTOR CO. V. MONTANA EIGHTH DISTRICT COURT DECISION BELOW: 443 P.3d 407 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: OP 19-0099 QUESTION PRESENTED: The Due Process Clause...
Case: 18-956 GOOGLE LLC V. ORACLE AMERICA, INC. (2020-Oct-7)
QUESTION PRESENTED: The Copyright Act provides that, while "original works of authorship" are generally eligible for copyright protection, 17 U.S.C. 102(a), "[i]n no ...
Case: 18-540 RUTLEDGE V. PHARMACEUTICAL CARE MANAGEMENT (2020-Oct-6)
QUESTION PRESENTED: Thirty-six States have enacted legislation to curb abusive prescription drug reimbursement practices by claims-processing middlemen-known as pha...
Case: 65 Orig TEXAS V. NEW MEXICO (2020-Oct-05)
LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER:QUESTION PRESENTED: To resolve disputes about use of the Pecos River, Texas and New Mexico entered into the Pecos River Compact. This Court su...
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...