» With Good Neighbor Plan in jeopardy, states, EPA ask: where should the agency’s opponents go to court?
18/07/24 07:48 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In June, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Environmental Protec...

» Business owners seek to reclaim cash seized in drug bust
09/07/24 18:20 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Federal agents arresting someone on serious drug charges — those punish...

» Roberts court hands major wins to Trump, conservative movement in 2023-24 term
03/07/24 18:19 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
Former President Donald Trump loomed large over the Supreme Court’s 2023-24 term. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee for 2024 brought two cases to the justices and fared well in both; Trump could also benefit from the decisi...

» Supreme Court expands time frame to sue federal agencies
02/07/24 18:34 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a North Dakota truck stop can bring a challenge to a regulation issued 13 years ago by the Federal Reserve Board. In a 6-3 vote divided along ideological lines, the justices significantly expanded p...

» Justices add five cases out of clean-up conference
02/07/24 14:05 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
The Supreme Court on Tuesday added five new cases – two of which will be argued together – to its docket for the 2024-25 term. The justices declined to take up a number of notable cases, including challenges to Illinois’s regulation of a...

» Court sends social media moderation cases back to lower courts
01/07/24 18:16 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
The Supreme Court on Monday sent a pair of challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how large social media companies control content posted on their sites back to the lower courts for another look. In a decision by Jus...

» Fourteen new relists for the end-of-term mop-up conference
01/07/24 18:11 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. Every summer, before the justices leave town for the Supreme C...

» A dramatic last day in the courtroom
01/07/24 16:07 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
As I reach the courtroom on Monday, Michael Dreeben of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office has already taken a seat in the bar section. He can be pretty sure he will get the opinion in Trump v. United States today. Smith, who was present...

» Justices rule Trump has some immunity from prosecution
01/07/24 12:26 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
This article was updated on July 1 at 3:32 p.m. In a historic decision, a divided Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former presidents can never be prosecuted for actions relating to the core powers of their office, and that there is at ...

» Justices uphold laws targeting homelessness with criminal penalties
28/06/24 13:48 from SCOTUSblog » Cases and Controversies
This article was updated on June 28 at 5:46 p.m. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld ordinances in a southwest Oregon city that prohibit people who are homeless from using blankets, pillows, or cardboard boxes for protection from the elem...