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- June 30, 2026Read →First AmendmentDecided
National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm'n
The Supreme Court held that federal limits on a political party's campaign spending in coordination with its candidates violate the First Amendment.
- June 30, 2026Read →Fourteenth AmendmentDecided
Trump v. Barbara
The Supreme Court held that the Constitution guarantees citizenship to children born in the United States even if their parents are unlawfully or temporarily present.
- June 30, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
Jones v. United States
The Supreme Court declined to review a case involving the enforceability of a legal waiver that prevents a defendant from challenging their conviction in court.
- June 30, 2026Read →Civil RightsDecided
West Virginia v. B. P. J.
The Supreme Court ruled that schools may limit participation on women’s and girls’ sports teams to biological females under Title IX and the Constitution.
- June 30, 2026Read →Fourteenth AmendmentDecided
Trump v. Barbara Revisions: 7/01/26
The Supreme Court held that children born in the U.S. to parents who are temporarily or unlawfully present are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment.
- June 29, 2026Read →Civil RightsDecided
Doe v. Hochul
The Supreme Court declined to hear a case where healthcare workers argued their employers violated federal law by firing them for refusing COVID-19 vaccines on religious grounds.
- June 29, 2026Read →Civil RightsDecided
Smith v. Kind
The Supreme Court declined to review a case where prison guards were granted immunity for keeping a naked inmate in a freezing cell for 23 hours.
- June 29, 2026Read →First AmendmentDecided
Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc.
The Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought by Alan Dershowitz that challenged the high legal bar public figures must meet to win defamation lawsuits.
- June 29, 2026Read →Fourth AmendmentDecided
Chatrie v. United States
The Supreme Court ruled that police conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they use geofence warrants to obtain cell-phone location history data from companies like Google.
- June 29, 2026Read →Election LawDecided
Watson v. Republican National Committee
The Supreme Court ruled that federal law does not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots that are postmarked by election day but arrive up to five days later.
- June 29, 2026Read →FederalismDecided
Trump v. Cook
The Supreme Court refused to let the President fire a Federal Reserve Governor without first providing a specific legal reason and a formal opportunity to respond.
- June 29, 2026Read →Separation of PowersDecided
Trump v. Slaughter
The Supreme Court ruled that the President can fire Federal Trade Commission members at will, striking down a law that only allowed removals for cause.
- June 25, 2026Read →Second AmendmentDecided
Wolford v. Lopez
The Supreme Court ruled that Hawaii cannot prohibit licensed firearm owners from carrying handguns on private property open to the public without the owner's express consent.
- June 25, 2026Read →ImmigrationDecided
Mullin v. Doe
The Supreme Court held that federal law prevents courts from reviewing most challenges to the government's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for foreign nationals.
- June 25, 2026Read →ImmigrationDecided
Mullin v. Al Otro Lado
The Supreme Court ruled that noncitizens standing in Mexico are not considered to have arrived in the U.S. and are not entitled to asylum processing.
- June 25, 2026Read →FederalismDecided
Monsanto v. Durnell
The Supreme Court ruled that federal law prevents states from requiring cancer warnings on pesticide labels when the Environmental Protection Agency has determined such warnings are not necessary.
- June 23, 2026Read →Fifth AmendmentDecided
Pung v. Isabella County
The Supreme Court ruled that when the government sells a home to pay back taxes, 'just compensation' is the actual auction price rather than the property's fair market value.
- June 23, 2026Read →First AmendmentDecided
Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections and Public Safety
The Supreme Court ruled that state prison employees cannot be sued for money damages in their personal capacities under a federal religious protection law because they did not personally agree to the law’s terms.
- June 23, 2026Read →International LawDecided
Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe
The Supreme Court ruled that federal courts cannot create new lawsuits for international law violations under the Alien Tort Statute and that the Torture Victim Protection Act does not allow for aiding-and-abetting claims.
- June 23, 2026Read →Foreign Sovereign Immunities ActDecided
Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación Cimex, S. A. (Cuba)
The Supreme Court ruled that the Helms-Burton Act allows U.S. nationals to sue Cuban government-owned companies for confiscated property without meeting the requirements of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
- June 23, 2026Read →ImmigrationDecided
Blanche v. Lau
The Supreme Court ruled that border officers do not need clear and convincing evidence of a crime before treating a returning permanent resident as an applicant for admission.
- June 23, 2026Read →Administrative LawDecided
Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections and Public Safety Revisions: 6/24/26
The Supreme Court ruled that under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), state employees cannot be sued in their personal capacities because they did not personally consent to such liability.
- June 22, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
Grayson v. United States
The Supreme Court vacated a lower court ruling after the federal government admitted that a specific wiretap law does not include a 'clean-hands' exception for admitting illegal recordings.
- June 22, 2026Read →Eighth AmendmentDecided
Saldaño v. Texas
The Supreme Court declined to review a Texas court's refusal to grant a hearing to a death-row inmate who claims he is intellectually disabled.
- June 22, 2026Read →Fourth AmendmentDecided
United States v. Carter
The Supreme Court declined to review a case regarding whether a person's race should be considered when determining if a police encounter was a seizure.
- June 22, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
McCarthy v. Hernandez
The Supreme Court reversed a ruling that granted a new trial to Pedro Hernandez, holding that federal law did not require a state court to instruct a jury on legal rules regarding tainted confessions.
- June 18, 2026Read →Second AmendmentDecided
United States v. Hemani
The Supreme Court ruled that prosecuting a person for possessing a firearm while being an unlawful drug user violates the Second Amendment when the law lacks a historical tradition of similar regulation.
- June 18, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
Hunter v. United States
The Supreme Court held that appeal waivers in plea agreements are unenforceable if a sentence would result in a miscarriage of justice.
- June 18, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
Hunter v. United States Revisions: 6/19/26
The Supreme Court held that an appeal waiver is unenforceable when it would result in a miscarriage of justice involving egregious judicial error.
- June 18, 2026Read →FederalismDecided
T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation
The Supreme Court ruled that federal district courts cannot review state-court judgments, even if those judgments are still being appealed in state court.
- June 18, 2026Read →FederalismDecided
T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation Revisions: 6/19/26
The Supreme Court held that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine prevents federal district courts from reviewing state-court judgments even if those judgments are still being appealed in state court.
- June 15, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
Alabama v. Powell
The Supreme Court declined to review an Alabama court's decision that reversed a murder conviction due to a prosecutor's comments at trial.
- June 15, 2026Read →First AmendmentDecided
E.D. v. Noblesville School District
The Supreme Court declined to hear a case about a school's refusal to allow a student club to display pro-life posters.
- June 11, 2026Read →Administrative LawDecided
FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd.
The Supreme Court ruled that Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act does not allow private investors to sue for contract rescission.
- June 11, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
Abouammo v. United States Revisions: 6/16/26
The Supreme Court decided that a defendant charged with falsifying documents to obstruct a federal investigation must be tried where the falsification occurred.
- June 11, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
Abouammo v. United States
The Supreme Court ruled that a person accused of falsifying documents to obstruct an investigation must be tried where the falsification actually happened.
- June 11, 2026Read →Civil ProcedureDecided
Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, Inc.
The Supreme Court overturned a rule that made it too difficult for bankruptcy debtors to prove an omission in their filings was an honest mistake.
- June 8, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
Clark v. Mississippi
The Supreme Court declined to review a case involving a claim that a lawyer’s failure to properly challenge race-based jury selection violated the right to effective counsel.
- June 4, 2026Read →Patent LawDecided
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a generic drug manufacturer's labels and marketing materials did not illegally encourage doctors to use its product for patented medical purposes.
- June 4, 2026Read →Securities LawDecided
Sripetch v. SEC
The Supreme Court ruled that the SEC can force fraudsters to give up illegal profits even if they cannot prove investors suffered a specific financial loss.
- June 4, 2026Read →Seventh AmendmentDecided
FCC v. AT&T
The Court ruled that the FCC’s process for issuing civil fines without a jury is constitutional because the fines cannot be collected until the government wins a new trial in front of a jury.
- June 2, 2026Read →Voting RightsDecided
Allen v. Milligan
The Supreme Court paused a lower court order that had blocked Alabama from using its 2023 congressional map, allowing the state’s preferred lines to proceed for the 2026 elections.
- June 1, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
Whitton v. Dixon
The Supreme Court vacated a lower court judgment because it wrongly considered DNA evidence that did not exist at the time of the original trial to decide if a witness's false testimony affected the jury's verdict.
- May 28, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
Fernandez v. United States
The Supreme Court ruled that federal prisoners cannot use compassionate release motions to challenge the legal validity of their convictions.
- May 28, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
Rutherford v. United States
The Supreme Court ruled that a sentence disparity created by a law change Congress chose not to make retroactive cannot qualify as an extraordinary reason for reducing a prison term.
- May 28, 2026Read →Federal Arbitration ActDecided
Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock
A worker who delivers goods on an intrastate leg of an interstate journey can qualify for the arbitration exemption without crossing state lines.
- May 28, 2026Read →Criminal ProcedureDecided
Pitchford v. Cain
The Supreme Court ruled that a Mississippi court unreasonably failed to follow proper procedures for investigating whether a prosecutor used race-based jury strikes.
- May 26, 2026Read →FederalismDecided
Florida v. California
The Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit brought by Florida against Washington and California over those states' practices in issuing commercial driver’s licenses to foreign nationals.