Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Lindke v Freed. In this case, the court considered this issue: When does a public official’s social media activity constitute state action subject to the First Amendment? The case was decided on March 15, 2024. The Supreme Court held that a public official who prevents someone from commenting on the official’s social-media page engages in state action under 42 U-S-C § 1983 only if the official both (1) possess...
Sep 19, 2024•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Trump v Anderson. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment disqualify Donald Trump from holding the office of President of the United States and thus from appearing on Colorado’s 2024 presidential primary ballot? The case was decided on March 4, 2024. The Supreme Court held that, while states have the power to disqualify state officials under Section 3, they...
Sep 19, 2024•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Great Lakes Insurance SE v Raiders Retreat Realty Co. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is a choice-of-law clause in a maritime contract unenforceable if enforcement would conflict with the “strong public policy” of the state whose law is displaced? The case was decided on February 21, 2024. The Supreme Court held that Choice-of-law provisions in maritime contracts are presumptively enforceable un...
Sep 18, 2024•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in McElrath v Georgia. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibit a second prosecution for a crime of which a defendant was previously acquitted? The case was decided on February 21, 2024. The Supreme Court held that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits a second prosecution for a crime of which a defendant was found by a ju...
Sep 18, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Murray v UBS Securities, LLC. In this case, the court considered this issue: Under 18 U-S-C § 1514A, must a whistleblower prove his employer acted with “retaliatory intent” as part of his case in chief? The case was decided on February 8, 2024. The Supreme Court held that a whistleblower who invokes §1514A must prove that his protected activity was a contributing factor in the employer’s unfavorable personnel ...
Sep 17, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v Kirtz. In this case, the court considered this issue: Do the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign immunity of the United States? The case was decided on February 8, 2024. The Supreme Court held that the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ...
Sep 16, 2024•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Acheson Hotels, LLC v Laufer. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does an ADA “tester” have Article III standing to challenge a hotel’s failure to provide disability accessibility information on its website, even if she has no plans to visit the hotel? The case was decided on December 5, 2023. The Supreme Court vacated the case as moot because Laufer voluntarily dismissed her pending suits in lower ...
Sep 16, 2024•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in 303 Creative LLC v Elenis. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does application of the Colorado AntiDiscrimination Act to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment? The case was decided on June 30, 2023. The Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs that convey messa...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Department of Education v Brown. In this case, the court considered this issue: Do these two student-loan borrowers have Article III standing to challenge the Department of Education’s Student Loan Debt Relief Plan? In addition, is the Plan an unconstitutional exercise of legislative power by the Secretary of the Department of Education? The case was decided on June 30, 2023. The Supreme Court held that Respon...
Sep 12, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Biden v Nebraska. In this case, the court considered these issues: 1. Do Nebraska and other states have judicial standing to challenge the student-debt relief program? 2. Does the student-debt relief program exceed the statutory authority of the U.S. Secretary of Education, or does it violate the Administrative Procedure Act? The case was decided on June 30, 2023. The Supreme Court held that the Secretary of E...
Sep 12, 2024•2 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Abitron Austria GmbH v Hetronic International, Inc. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the Lanham Act permit the owner of a U.S.-registered trademark to recover damages for the use of that trademark when the infringement occurred outside the United States and is not likely to cause confusion in the United States? The case was decided on June 29, 2023. The Supreme Court held that the Lanham Act...
Sep 10, 2024•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v President and Fellows of Harvard College. In this case, the court considered this issue: May institutions of higher education use race as a factor in admissions? If so, does Harvard College’s and UNC’s race-conscious admissions process violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? The case was decided on June 29, 2023. The Supreme Court held that the Harvard and the UNC...
Sep 10, 2024•4 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Groff v DeJoy. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is inconvenience to coworkers an “undue burden” under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 such that it excuses an employer from providing an accommodation requested for religious exercise? The case was decided on June 29, 2023. The Supreme Court held that Title VII requires an employer that denies a religious accommodation to show that the bur...
Aug 31, 2024•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Counterman v Colorado. In this case, the court considered this issue: To establish that a statement is a "true threat" unprotected by the First Amendment, must the government show that the speaker subjectively knew or intended the threatening nature of the statement? The case was decided on June 27, 2023. The Supreme Court held that To establish that a statement is a “true threat” unprotected by the ...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Mallory v Norfolk Southern Railway Co. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does a state registration statute for out-of-state corporations that purports to confer general personal jurisdiction over the registrant violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? The case was decided on June 27, 2023. The Supreme Court held that a Pennsylvania law requiring out-of-state companies that regis...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Moore v Harper. In this case, the court considered this issue: Under the U-S Constitution, does the state legislative body, independent of any constraints by state courts or other laws, have sole authority to regulate federal elections? The case was decided on June 27, 2023. The Supreme Court held that the Federal Elections Clause does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set t...
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in United States v Texas. In this case, the court considered these issues: 1. Do the state plaintiffs have Article III standing to challenge the Department of Homeland Security’s Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law? 2. Do the Guidelines violate the Administrative Procedure Act? 3. Does 8 U-S-C § 1252(f)(1) prevent the entry of an order to “hold unlawful and set aside” the guidelines under 5 U-...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Coinbase, Inc. v Bielski. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does a non-frivolous appeal of the denial of a motion to compel arbitration oust a district court’s jurisdiction to proceed with litigation pending appeal? The case was decided on June 23, 2023. The Supreme Court held that a district court must stay its proceedings while an interlocutory appeal taken pursuant to 9 U-S-C §16(a) on the ques...
Aug 21, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Samia v United States. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does admitting a codefendant’s redacted out-of-court confession that immediately inculpates a defendant based on context violate the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment? The case was decided on June 23, 2023. The Supreme Court held that the admission of a non-testifying codefendant’s confession did not violate the Sixth Amendment’s C...
Aug 16, 2024•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in United States v Hanson. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the federal prohibition on encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain violate the First Amendment of the U-S Constitution? The case was decided on June 23, 2023. The Supreme Court held that the federal law criminalizing “encouraging or inducing” illegal immigration—forbids only the p...
Aug 15, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Arizona v Navajo Nation. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the 1868 Treaty between the Navajo Nation and the United States impose an affirmative duty on the United States to secure water for the tribe? The case was decided on June 22, 2023. The Supreme Court held that the 1868 treaty establishing the Navajo Reservation reserved necessary water to accomplish the purpose of the Navajo Reservati...
Aug 15, 2024•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Yegiazaryan v Smagin. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does a foreign plaintiff with no alleged connection to the United States state a cognizable claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act when it suffers an injury to an intangible property? The case was decided on June 22, 2023. The Supreme Court held that a plaintiff alleges a “domestic injury” for purposes of fi...
Aug 12, 2024•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Jones v Hendrix. In this case, the court considered this issue: May a federal inmate who did not challenge their conviction on the ground that the statute did not criminalize their activity subsequently apply for habeas relief after the Supreme Court retroactively invalidates the circuit precedent on which the inmate relied in not challenging their conviction? The case was decided on June 22, 2023. The Supreme...
Aug 11, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Pugin v Garland. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is Virginia’s offense of accessory after the fact to a felony an “offense relating to obstruction of justice” under the Immigration and Nationality Act? The case was decided on June 22, 2023. The Supreme Court held that Virginia’s offense of accessory after the fact to a felony is an offense “relating to” obstruction of justice under the Immigrati...
Aug 08, 2024•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in United States ex rel. Polansky v Executive Health Resources, Inc. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the government have the authority to dismiss a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by an individual on behalf of the government if it initially declined to take over the case, and if so, what standard applies? The case was decided on June 16, 2023. The Supreme Court held that in a qui tam action f...
Aug 07, 2024•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Lora v United States. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does federal criminal sentencing law require a man who was convicted and sentenced for his role in a drug-trafficking-related murder to serve consecutive, rather than concurrent, sentences? The case was decided on June 16, 2023. The Supreme Court held that the bar on imposition of concurrent sentences in 18 U-S-C §924(c)(1)(D)(ii) does not ap...
Aug 06, 2024•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v Coughlin. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the Bankruptcy Code unequivocally abrogate tribal sovereign immunity? The case was decided on June 15, 2023. The Supreme Court held that The Bankruptcy Code unequivocally abrogates the sovereign immunity of all governments, including federally recognized Indian tribes. Justice Ketanji Brown Ja...
Aug 05, 2024•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Smith v United States. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does a criminal trial’s improper venue as to one count require vacatur of the convictions for other counts? The case was decided on June 15, 2023. The Supreme Court held that the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district. Justice Samuel Alito a...
Aug 04, 2024•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Haaland v Brackeen. In this case, the court considered this issue: Do the Indian Child Welfare Act’s restrictions on placement of Native American children violate anti-commandeering principles of the Tenth Amendment? The case was decided on June 15, 2023. The Supreme Court held that the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is consistent with Congress’s Article 1 authority and does not violate anti-commandeering pri...
Aug 03, 2024•3 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County v Talevski. In this case, the court considered this issue: May a plaintiff file a federal civil rights claim for violation of the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act, which was enacted under Congress’s Spending Clause power? The case was decided on June 8, 2023. The Supreme Court held that a plaintiff may file a federal civil rights claim for violation of the Federal Nurs...
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