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Opinions from 2020
Docket Number: 20-366
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 18, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Every 10 years, the U.S. undertakes an “Enumeration” of its populace “in such Manner” as Congress “shall by means of Law direct.” The Secretary of Commerce need to “take a decennial census of populace . . . in such ...
Docket Number: 19-1302
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 14, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Kayer murdered Haas in 1994. Kayer became convicted of premeditated first-diploma murder, refused to completely cooperate with a mitigation expert, and refused to conform to a continuance. The court ruled him competent to make that ...
Docket Number: 19-108
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 10, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), a navy offense, “punishable via dying, may be tried and punished at any time with out obstacle,” 10 U.S.C. 843(a). Other military offenses are challenge to a 5-12 months ...
Docket Number: 19-seventy one
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 10, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) provides a treatment to redress federal government violations of the right to unfastened exercise beneath the First Amendment. Practicing Muslims sued underneath RFRA, claiming that federal ...
Docket Number: 19-309
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 10, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Delaware’s Constitution contains a political stability requirement for appointments to the kingdom’s fundamental courts. No extra than a bare majority of judges on any of its 5 primary courts “shall be of the equal political party.” ...
Docket Number: 18-540
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 10, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Pharmacy gain managers (PBMs) reimburse pharmacies for the value of drugs protected via prescription-drug plans by means of administering most allowable value (MAC) lists. In 2015, Arkansas surpassed Act 900, which requires PBMs to ...
Docket Number: 19-1108
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: November 2, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Mckesson organized an illustration in Baton Rouge to protest a taking pictures through a police officer. The protesters, allegedly at Mckesson’s route, occupied the motorway in the front of the police headquarters. As officers started ...
Docket Number: 19-1261
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: November 2, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Taylor, a Texas inmate, alleges that during September 2013, correctional officials limited him in a cell included, nearly floor to ceiling, in “ ‘huge quantities’ of feces.” Taylor did now not consume or drink for nearly 4 ...
Docket Number: 19-635
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: July nine, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The New York County District Lawyer’s Office served a subpoena duces tecum at the private accounting corporation of President Trump, looking for financial facts referring to the President and his agencies. The President, appearing ...
Docket Number: 19-715
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: July 9, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Committees of the U. S. House of Representatives issued subpoenas searching for records about the price range of President Trump, his kids, and affiliated corporations. The subpoenas were issued to economic establishments and ...
Docket Number: 18-9526
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: July 9, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The Major Crimes Act (MCA) provides that, within “the Indian u . s .,” “[a]ny Indian who commits” certain enumerated offenses “shall be concern to the same regulation and penalties as all other individuals committing any of ...
Docket Number: 17-1107
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: July nine, 2020
Docket Number: 19-267
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: July 8, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Two teachers at Roman Catholic essential colleges have been employed underneath agreements that set out the schools’ undertaking to expand and sell a Catholic School religion network; imposed commitments regarding non secular guidance, ...
Docket Number: 19-431
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: July 8, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) requires covered employers to provide girls with “preventive care and screenings” with out price-sharing requirements and relies on Preventive Care Guidelines ...
Docket Number: 19-518
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: July 6, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Reversing the Tenth Circuit, the Court held that states may also impose a sanction on "faithless electors" who pledge to vote for the nominee of their political birthday celebration in the presidential election and fail to achieve this. The Court ...
Docket Number: 19-631
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: July 6, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 prohibits nearly all robocalls to mobile telephones, forty seven U.S.C. 227(b)(1)(A)(iii). A 2015 amendment created an exception that permits robocalls made solely to collect a debt owed to or ...
Docket Number: 19-465
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: July 6, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: When Americans solid ballots for presidential candidates, their votes really go toward choosing individuals of the Electoral College, whom every nation appoints based totally on the famous returns. With restricted exceptions, states hire ...
Docket Number: 18-1195
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 30, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Montana presents tax credits to individuals who donate to companies that award scholarships for non-public college lessons. To reconcile this system with the Montana Constitution, which bars government resource to any college “controlled ...
Docket Number: 19-forty six
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 30, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: A widely wide-spread name—the name of a category of services or products—is ineligible for federal trademark registration. Booking.com, a journey-reservation internet site, sought federal registration of marks together with the term “Booking.com.” ...
Docket Number: 19-177
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 29, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 restrained the funding of American and foreign nongovernmental companies to those with “a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and ...
Docket Number: 18-1323
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 29, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Louisiana’s Act 620 required any physician who plays abortions to keep “lively admitting privileges at a hospital . . . positioned now not further than thirty miles from the area at which the abortion is carried out or triggered.” ...
Docket Number: 19-7
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 29, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Following the 2008 financial disaster, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), turned into set up via the Dodd-Frank Act as an impartial regulatory organisation tasked with ensuring that client debt merchandise are secure and ...
Docket Number: 19-161
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 25, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) affords for the expedited removal of certain “candidates” seeking admission into the U.S., 8 U.S.C. 1225(a)(1). An applicant may additionally keep away from expedited ...
Docket Number: 18-1501
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 22, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Petitioners solicited foreign nationals to invest in a cancer-treatment middle. A Securities and Exchange Commission research found out they misappropriated the price range. The SEC can also are looking for “equitable comfort” in civil ...
Docket Number: 18-587
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 18, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: In 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) application, which lets in sure unauthorized aliens who arrived in the U.S. as kids to apply for a two-yr ...
Docket Number: 18-1584
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 15, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Atlantic sought to assemble a 604-mile natural fuel pipeline from West Virginia to North Carolina, crossing sixteen miles of land inside the George Washington National Forest. Atlantic secured a unique use allow from the U.S. ...
Docket Number: 18-9674
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 15, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Andrus became six years antique, his mom offered pills out in their condo. She turned to prostitution and often left her five kids to binge on pills. She regularly became high and had drug-addicted, once in a while violent, boyfriends. ...
Docket Number: 17-1618
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 15, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Three employers each fired a protracted-time employee for being gay or transgender. Each employee sued, alleging intercourse discrimination below Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it “unlawful . . . for an ...
Docket Number: 18-8369
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 8, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA) set up the 3-strikes rule, which normally prevents a prisoner from bringing fit in forma pauperis (IFP) if he has had 3 or greater prior suits disregarded on the grounds ...
Docket Number: 18-1048
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 1, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: ThyssenKrupp entered into contracts with F. L. for the development of mills at ThyssenKrupp’s Alabama metallic production plant. Each settlement contained an arbitration clause. F. L. entered into a subcontract with GE for ...
Docket Number: 17-1712
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 1, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs are retired contributors a defined-advantage retirement plan, which guarantees them a set price each month regardless of the plan’s price or its fiduciaries’ funding choices. Both have been paid all ...
Docket Number: 18-6943
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 1, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Banister became convicted with the aid of a Texas courtroom of annoyed assault and sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment. After laborious his country treatments, he unsuccessfully sought federal habeas comfort. Banister timely filed a movement ...
Docket Number: 18-1334
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 1, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Congress invoked its Article IV energy to enact the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA). PROMESA created a Financial Oversight and Management Board, whose seven vote casting individuals are to be ...
Docket Number: 18-1432
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: June 1, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Nasrallah pled responsible to receiving stolen belongings. In elimination court cases, Nasrallah sought comfort underneath the global Convention Against Torture (CAT) to prevent his removal to Lebanon. The Immigration Judge ordered ...
Docket Number: 17-1268
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 18, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: In 1998, al Qaeda operatives detonated truck bombs outside the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Victims sued the Republic of Sudan beneath the nation-sponsored terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ...
Docket Number: 18-1086
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 14, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Lucky Brand and Marcel market clothing. Marcel registered the trademark “Get Lucky.” Lucky Brand registered the trademark “Lucky Brand” and other marks with the word “Lucky.” In a 2003 agreement settlement, Lucky ...
Docket Number: 18-1059
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 7, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: During former New Jersey Governor Christie’s 2013 reelection campaign, Fort Lee’s mayor refused to suggest Christie. Kelly, Christie's Deputy Chief of Staff, Port Authority Deputy Executive Director, Baroni, and any other ...
Docket Number: 19-sixty seven
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: May 7, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Sineneng-Smith operated a California immigration consulting company, supporting clients to document applications for a hard work certification application that after furnished a direction for aliens to modify to lawful everlasting resident repute. ...
Docket Number: 18-280
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 27, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The petitioners challenged a New York City rule regarding the shipping of firearms, mentioning the Second Amendment, and looking for declaratory remedy against enforcement of the rule of thumb insofar because it avoided their shipping of firearms ...
Docket Number: 18-1150
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 27, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA) includes the text of every Georgia statute currently in pressure. Non-binding annotations seem below each statutory provision, normally consisting of summaries of judicial evaluations ...
Docket Number: 18-1023
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 27, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mounted online exchanges in which insurers could promote their healthcare plans. The now-expired “Risk Corridors” application aimed to restriction the plans’ income and losses in the course of ...
Docket Number: 18-1233
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 23, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Romag and Fossil signed an settlement to apply Romag’s fasteners in Fossil’s leather goods. Romag sooner or later discovered that factories in China making Fossil products had been the usage of counterfeit Romag fasteners. Romag sued Fossil ...
Docket Number: 18-260
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 23, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Maui’s wastewater reclamation facility collects sewage, in part treats it, and every day pumps around 4 million gallons of dealt with water into the ground via four wells. This effluent then travels approximately a 1/2-mile, ...
Docket Number: 18-725
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 23, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Over 12 years, Barton a lawful everlasting resident, changed into convicted of kingdom crimes, consisting of a firearms offense, drug offenses, and irritated attack offenses. An Immigration Judge observed him removable under eight U.S.C. 1229a, ...
Docket Number: 18-5924
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 20, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: In forty eight states and in federal courtroom, a unmarried juror’s vote to acquit is sufficient to save you a conviction; Louisiana and Oregon punish human beings based on 10-to-2 verdicts. Ramos changed into convicted in a Louisiana courtroom with the aid of a 10-to-2 jury ...
Docket Number: 18-916
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 20, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Inter partes overview (IPR) allows a patent challenger to invite the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to reconsider the validity of in advance granted patent claims. If a request comes extra than a yr after a patent infringement ...
Docket Number: 17-1498
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 20, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: For almost a century, the Anaconda Copper Smelter contaminated 300 rectangular miles with arsenic and lead. For 35 years, the EPA has worked with the now-closed smelter’s current owner, Atlantic Richfield, to put in force a cleanup ...
Docket Number: 18-882
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 6, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Babb, a VA pharmacist, filed in shape under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. 633a(a). The district courtroom granted the VA precis judgment, locating that Babb had set up a prima facie case but that the VA ...
Docket Number: 18-556
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 6, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: A deputy ran a registration code test and located that the truck belonged to Glover, whose motive force’s license have been revoked. The deputy stopped the truck, assuming that Glover was driving. Glover was driving and became charged ...
Docket Number: 19A1016
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: April 6, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: To sluggish the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsin’s Governor ordered Wisconsinites to live at domestic until April 24. An extraordinary wide variety of citizens requested absentee ballots for the nation’s spring election, ensuing ...
Docket Number: 18-565
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: March 30, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: CARCO sub-chartered an oil tanker from tanker operator Star, which had chartered it from Frescati. During the tanker’s journey, an abandoned deliver anchor punctured the tanker’s hull, inflicting 264,000 gallons of heavy crude ...
Docket Number: 19-5421
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: March 23, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Davis, formerly convicted of two nation felonies, pleaded guilty as a felon in possession of a firearm, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2), and to possessing tablets with the reason to distribute, 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C). ...
Docket Number: 18-6135
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: March 23, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Kansas adopted the “cognitive disability” check for the insanity protection, which examines whether a defendant became able to understand what he was doing while he committed against the law. A defendant might also boost mental contamination to reveal ...
Docket Number: 18-776
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: March 23, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Aliens who lived in the U.S. dedicated drug crimes and were ordered eliminated. Neither moved to reopen his removal court cases inside 90 days, 8 U.S.C. 1229a(c)(7)(C)(i). Each later unsuccessfully asked the Board of Immigration ...
Docket Number: 18-1171
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: March 23, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: ESN, an African-American-owned tv-network operator, sought to have cable tv conglomerate Comcast carry its channels. Comcast refused, mentioning loss of demand, bandwidth constraints, and a desire for special ...
Docket Number: 18-877
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: March 23, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: In 1996, Intersal, a marine salvage enterprise, determined the shipwreck of the Queen Anne’s Revenge off the North Carolina coast. North Carolina, the shipwreck’s felony owner, contracted with Intersal to conduct healing. ...
Docket Number: 17-834
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: March 3, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) makes it illegal to lease an alien understanding that he is unauthorized to work within the U.S., 8 U.S.C. 1324a(a)(1), (h)(three). Employers should use an I-nine shape to “attest” that they ...
Docket Number: 18-6662
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 26, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) mandates a fifteen-yr minimal sentence for a defendant convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm who has as a minimum three convictions for “extreme drug offense[s],” 18 U.S.C. ...
Docket Number: 18-1116
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 26, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) requires plaintiffs with “actual understanding” of an alleged fiduciary breach to report healthy within three years of gaining that information, 29 U.S.C. 1113(2), instead of ...
Docket Number: 18-7739
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 26, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Holguin became convicted on drug fees and sentenced to imprisonment and supervised release at the same time as he was still serving a time period of supervised launch for an earlier conviction. The prosecution sought a further consecutive ...
Docket Number: 18-1269
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 25, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The IRS allows affiliated corporations to document a consolidated federal go back, 26 U.S.C. 1501, and issues any refund as a unmarried charge to the group’s targeted agent. If a dispute arises, federal courts commonly turn ...
Docket Number: 17-1678
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 25, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: U.S. Border Patrol Agent Mesa, standing on U.S. soil shot and killed Hernández, a 15-12 months-antique Mexican national, who became on Mexican soil, after having run back across the border after entry onto U.S. territory. Mesa contends ...
Docket Number: 18-935
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 25, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, 22 U.S.C. 9001, gives that a toddler wrongfully eliminated from her u . s . a . of “habitual house” often must be lower back to that united states of america. ...
Docket Number: 18-1109
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 25, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: A jury determined McKinney responsible of counts of first-degree homicide. The decide weighed the worrying and mitigating situations and sentenced McKinney to demise. Nearly 20 years later, the Ninth Circuit held on habeas evaluation ...
Docket Number: 18-921
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 24, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: In 1979, the Superintendent of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Juan created a agree with to manage a pension plan for Catholic faculty employees. In 2016, active and retired college employees filed healthy, alleging ...
Docket Number: 18-938
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 14, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: Ritzen sued Jackson in Tennessee nation courtroom for breach of settlement. Jackson filed for Chapter eleven financial ruin. Under 11 U.S.C. 362(a), filing a bankruptcy petition automatically “operates as a stay” of lenders’ debt-collection ...
Docket Number: 18-1165
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 14, 2020
USLaw.Site Opinion Summary: In 2014, the Supreme Court held that a claim for breach of the obligation of prudence imposed on plan fiduciaries by using the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) on the premise of interior records, must plausibly allege ...