Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Campos-Chaves v Garland. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the government provide adequate notice under 8 U-S-C § 1229(a) when it serves an initial notice document that does not include the “time and place” of proceedings followed by an additional document containing that information? The case was decided on June 14, 2024. The Supreme Court held that because each of the noncitizens in this ca...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in United States Trustee v John Q. Hammons Fall 2006. In this case, the court considered this issue: Must the U.S. Trustee issue refunds for the extra fees paid by debtors in certain districts to address the lack of uniformity identified in Siegel v Fitzgerald? The case was decided on June 14, 2024. The Supreme Court held that refunds are not required; rather, prospective parity—i.e., requiring equal fees for oth...
Oct 31, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in FDA v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. In this case, the court considered these issues: 1. Do respondents have Article III standing to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s 2016 and 2021 actions with respect to mifepristone’s approved conditions of use? 2. Were the FDA’s 2016 and 2021 approvals of mifepristone arbitrary and capricious? 3. Did the district court properly grant preliminary relief? The c...
Oct 30, 2024•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Vidal v Elster. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the refusal to register a trademark under 15 U.S.C. § 1052(c) when the mark contains criticism of a government official or public figure violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment? The case was decided on June 13, 2024. Steve Elster sought to register the trademark "Trump too small" for use on shirts and hats, drawing from a 2016 Pr...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Starbucks Corp. v McKinney. In this case, the court considered this issue: What test must courts use to evaluate requests for injunctions under Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act? The case was decided on June 13, 2024. The Supreme Court held that when considering the NLRB’s request for a preliminary injunction under §10( j), district courts must apply the traditional four factors articulated in ...
Oct 25, 2024•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Connelly v United States. In this case, the court considered this issue: should the proceeds of a life insurance policy taken out by a closely held corporation on a shareholder in order to facilitate the redemption of the shareholder’s stock be considered a corporate asset when calculating the value of the shareholder’s shares for purposes of the federal estate tax? The case was decided on June 6, 2024. The Su...
Oct 24, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Becerra v San Carlos Apache Tribe. In this case, the court considered this issue: Must the Indian Health Service pay “contract support costs” not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe’s expenditure of income collected from third parties? The case was decided on June 6, 2024. The Supreme Court held that the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDA) requires the...
Oct 24, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Truck Insurance Exchange v Kaiser Gypsum Co. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is an insurer with financial responsibility for a bankruptcy claim a “party in interest” that may object to a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code? The case was decided on June 6, 2024. The Supreme Court held that an insurer with financial responsibility for bankruptcy claims is a “party in int...
Oct 22, 2024•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Thornell v Jones. In this case, the court considered this issue: What is the proper methodology for assessing prejudice, for purposes of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim? The case was decided on May 30, 2024. The Supreme Court held that when a capital defendant claims that he was prejudiced at sentencing because counsel failed to present available mitigating evidence, a court must decide whether it i...
Oct 21, 2024•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Cantero v Bank of America. In this case, the court considered this issue: When are state laws that regulate national banks preempted under federal law? The case was decided on May 30, 2024. The Supreme Court held that under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, state laws are preempted only if they discriminate against national banks or “prevent or significantly interfere” with...
Oct 21, 2024•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in National Rifle Association of America v Vullo. In this case, the court considered this issue: does a New York regulator’s discouragement of companies from doing business with the National Rifle Association after the Parkland school shooting constitute coercion in violation of the First Amendment? The case was decided on May 30, 2024. The Supreme Court held that the NRA plausibly alleged that the New York State...
Oct 18, 2024•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Brown v United States. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act incorporate the federal drug schedules that were in effect at the time of the federal firearm offense? The case was decided on May 23, 2024. The Supreme Court held that a state drug conviction counts as an ACCA predicate if it involved a drug on the federal schedules...
Oct 17, 2024•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Coinbase v Suski. In this case, the court considered this issue: when parties enter into an arbitration agreement with a delegation clause, does an arbitrator or a court decide whether that arbitration agreement is narrowed by a later contract that is silent as to arbitration and delegation? The case was decided on May 23, 2024. The Supreme Court held that where parties have agreed to two contracts—one sending...
Oct 16, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Alexander V South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the South Carolina legislature’s redistricting map, which has the effect of moving tens of thousands of Black voters to a different district, constitute an impermissible racial gerrymander, even if the legislators’ purported intent was merely a political gerrymander? The case was decided on May 23, 202...
Oct 08, 2024•2 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Smith v Spizzirri. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act give district courts discretion to dismiss a lawsuit when all claims are subject to arbitration? The case was decided on May 16, 2024. The Supreme Court held that when a district court finds that a lawsuit involves an arbitrable dispute and a party has requested a stay of the court proceeding pending...
Oct 04, 2024•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v Community Financial Services Assn. of America, Ltd. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the funding scheme for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which receives funding directly from the Federal Reserve, violate the Appropriations Clause of the Constitution? The case was decided on May 16, 2024. The Supreme Court held that the funding scheme for the...
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Harrow v Department of Defense. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is the 60-day filing deadline in 5 U-S-C § 7703(b)(1)(A) jurisdictional and thus not subject to equitable tolling? The case was decided on May 16, 2024. The Supreme Court held that the 60-day filing deadline for a federal employee to petition the Federal Circuit to review a final decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board, 5 U-S...
Oct 03, 2024•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v Nealy. In this case, the court considered this issue: Under the discovery accrual rule applied by the circuit courts and the Copyright Act’s statute of limitations for civil actions, 17 U-S-C § 507(b), may a copyright plaintiff recover damages for acts that allegedly occurred more than three years before the filing of a lawsuit? The case was decided on May 9, 2024. The Supreme Cou...
Oct 03, 2024•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Culley v Marshall. In this case, the court considered this issue: What test must a district court apply when determining whether and when a post-deprivation hearing is required under the Due Process Clause? The case was decided on May 9, 2024. The Supreme Court held that in civil forfeiture cases involving personal property, the Due Process Clause requires a timely forfeiture hearing but does not require a sep...
Oct 02, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in McIntosh v United States. In this case, the court considered this issue: May a district court enter a criminal forfeiture order when the time limit specified in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure has already passed? The case was decided on April 17, 2024. The Supreme Court held that a district court’s failure to comply with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2(b)(2)(B)’s requirement to enter a prelimin...
Oct 01, 2024•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Muldrow v City of St. Louis. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit discrimination in transfer decisions absent a separate court determination that the transfer decision caused a signification disadvantage? The case was decided on April 17, 2024. The Supreme Court held that an employee challenging a job transfer under Title VII must show that the ...
Sep 30, 2024•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in DeVillier v Texas. In this case, the court considered this issue: May a party sue a state directly under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment? The case was decided on April 16, 2024. The Court did not resolve the question presented because the case’s underlying premise was incorrect; the property owners adversely affected by the flood evacuation barrier constructed by Texas should be permitted on remand t...
Sep 30, 2024•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Rudisill v McDonough. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is a veteran who has served two separate and distinct periods of qualifying service under the Montgomery GI Bill and the Post-9/11 GI Bill entitled to receive a total of 48 months of education benefits without first exhausting the Montgomery benefit in order to obtain the more generous Post-9/11 benefit? The case was decided on April 16, 2024...
Sep 27, 2024•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Sheetz v El Dorado County. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is a monetary exaction imposed by a local government as a condition for a building permit exempt from the “essential nexus” and “rough proportionality” requirements established in Nollan v California Coastal Comm’n and Dolan v City of Tigard, simply because the exaction is authorized by local legislation? The case was decided on April 12...
Sep 26, 2024•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v Moab Partners, L. P. In this case, the court considered this issue: May a failure to make a disclosure required under Item 303 of SEC Regulation S-K support a private claim under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, even in the absence of an otherwise misleading statement? The case was decided on April 12, 2024. The Supreme Court held that pure omissions are no...
Sep 26, 2024•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Bissonnette v LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC. In this case, the court considered this issue: To be exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, must a class of workers that is actively engaged in interstate transportation also be employed by a company in the transportation industry? The case was decided on April 12, 2024. The Supreme Court held that a transportation worker need not work in the transportation indust...
Sep 26, 2024•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in FBI v Fikre. In this case, the court considered this issue: Are respondent’s claims challenging his placement on the No Fly List moot, given that he was removed from the No Fly List in 2016 and the government provided a sworn declaration stating that he “will not be placed on the No Fly List in the future based on the currently available information”? The case was decided on March 19, 2024. The Supreme Court h...
Sep 25, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Wilkinson v Garland. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is an agency determination that a given set of established facts does not rise to the statutory standard of “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship” a mixed question of law and fact reviewable under 8 U-S-C § 1252(a)(2)(D), or instead a discretionary judgment call unreviewable under Section 1252(a)(2)(B)(i)? The case was decided on March 1...
Sep 24, 2024•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Pulsifer v United States. In this case, the court considered this issue: Must a defendant show he does not meet any of the criteria listed in 18U-S-C § 3553(f) to qualify for a sentence lower than the statutory minimum? The case was decided on March 15, 2024. The Supreme Court held that a defendant must satisfy individually each of the three conditions of the “safety valve” provision of 18U-S-C §3553(f)(1) to ...
Sep 23, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in O'Connor-Ratcliff v Garnier. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does a public official engage in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official’s personal social media account, which the official uses to communicate about job-related matters with the public? The case was decided on March 15, 2024. The Supreme Court held that the Ninth Circuit’s judgment—...
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