» Limiting a defendant’s ability to confer with counsel during a murder trial
03/04/25 12:18 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
 The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. Over the past couple of conferences, the Supreme Court has continu...

» Supreme Court hears dispute over South Carolina’s bid to defund Planned Parenthood
02/04/25 18:41 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether Planned Parenthood has a legal right under federal civil rights laws to challenge the order by South Carolina’s governor barring abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, from...

» Divided court approves civil RICO liability for injuries from CBD product
02/04/25 18:00 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act provides for federal criminal and civil penalties for harms from “racketeering.” Wednesday’s ruling in Medical Marijuana, Inc v. Horn, like so many of the court’s RICO decisions, inv...

» Court tosses out lower-court ruling against FDA in flavored vape dispute
02/04/25 14:46 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
The Supreme Court on Wednesday largely upheld the Food and Drug Administration’s denials of two companies’ applications to sell flavored liquids for use in e-cigarettes. In a unanimous ruling, the justices threw out a ruling by the conse...

» Justices likely to allow damages suit against Palestinian Authority to go forward in U.S. courts
01/04/25 17:46 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared inclined to allow a lawsuit by U.S. victims of terrorist attacks in Israel against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization to go forward. A majority of the justices appear...

» Supreme Court considers South Carolina’s effort to strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funding
01/04/25 14:02 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that, at first glance, appears to involve only a technical interpretation of the federal Medicaid Act. But the dispute has drawn widespread attention because of the contex...

» Justices validate IRS’s right to retain fraudulent pre-bankruptcy tax payments
31/03/25 16:43 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
United States v. Miller presents the kind of simple facts that populate law-school hypotheticals. A business is in financial distress. The shareholders (who control the business) use some of its funds to pay off their own debts, includin...

» Supreme Court considers Americans’ suit against Palestinian Authority
31/03/25 16:27 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in the latest chapter of the justices’ efforts to lay out rules for personal jurisdiction – whether courts have the power to hear a case against certain defendants. Tuesday’s case is ...

» Supreme Court likely to embrace expanded tax exemption for religious charities
31/03/25 15:31 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared sympathetic to the argument by a Catholic Charities chapter that Wisconsin violated the Constitution when it refused to give the group the same exemption from the state’s unemployment tax that it prov...

» Justices decline to hear post-conviction relief dispute in Missouri capital case
31/03/25 14:43 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
Under the federal law governing efforts by state prisoners to seek post-conviction relief in federal courts, prisoners who lose at the trial level can only appeal that decision if they can show that reasonable judges could disagree with ...