A unanimous Supreme Court holds that substantial-evidence review, not de novo review, governs whether undisputed facts amount to persecution under the INA, resolving a circuit split and reaffirming Elias-Zacarias.
In a per curiam order, the Court found parents likely to prevail on free exercise and due process claims against policies that withhold student gender-transition information without child consent, drawing a sharp dissent over the emergency docket's use.
A unanimous ruling in Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corp. narrows the federal arm-of-the-state test to corporate form and formal liability for judgments, siding with New York over Pennsylvania and exposing quasi-public authorities with hundreds of millions in annual revenue to out-of-state suits.
The Court held that Boyle v. United Technologies does not immunize contractors from state tort claims when the military neither ordered nor authorized the challenged conduct, reversing the Fourth Circuit and reopening a wounded soldier's negligence suit against Fluor Corp.
The U.S. Supreme Court said Colorado's law regulating conversion therapy for minors likely targets protected speech when applied to a licensed counselor's talk therapy.
The justices said a D.C. appeals court improperly parsed the facts of an early-morning car stop rather than considering the full circumstances supporting reasonable suspicion.
The justices reversed the Ninth Circuit and held that federal supervised release does not automatically extend when a defendant absconds.
The justices adopted an amendment to the federal hearsay rule that is slated to take effect Dec. 1, 2026, absent congressional action.
The U.S. Supreme Court asked the solicitor general to weigh in on two pending petitions and sent three cases back to federal appeals courts in a wide-ranging order list.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from a Supreme Court order barring an Indiana prisoner from future noncriminal in forma pauperis petitions, warning that the court's frequent-filer sanction is being applied too broadly to incarcerated litigants.
The U.S. Supreme Court said the Fourth Circuit failed to give proper AEDPA deference to a Maryland appellate ruling that rejected a convicted man's Brady materiality claim.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the court should have taken up whether indigent prisoners suing together must each pay a full federal filing fee.
The justice dissented from the Supreme Court's refusal to hear a case asking when supervised-release violations can add prison time beyond the statutory maximum for the original crime.
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justice Jackson, said the Supreme Court should have taken up James Skinner's case because his codefendant won relief over overlapping Brady evidence.
The Supreme Court ordered the Fifth Circuit to reconsider Grande Communications' dispute with UMG Recordings in light of the justices' Cox Communications ruling, while also issuing several other grant-vacate-remand orders.
The U.S. Supreme Court said a D.C. appellate court wrongly parsed reasonable suspicion factor by factor when it tossed a juvenile adjudication tied to a late-night vehicle stop.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review whether the Department of Labor can adjudicate monetary-remedy proceedings against employers accused of violating employment terms for H-2A and corresponding domestic workers.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari after Michael Lairy received relief from a prison term Justice Sonia Sotomayor said exceeded the lawful maximum by five years.
The U.S. Supreme Court vacated an Eleventh Circuit decision against Florida death row prisoner Gary Whitton, saying the appeals court relied on DNA evidence the trial jury never heard when assessing the effect of allegedly false informant testimony.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Mississippi's rule for proving prejudice from counsel's mishandling of a Batson challenge is likely wrong, but the case was not a proper vehicle for review.
The Supreme Court declined to hear two disputes that Justice Samuel Alito said warranted review, including a student-speech fight over anti-abortion club flyers and an Alabama capital case involving a prosecutor's closing argument.
Justice Neil Gorsuch said the Supreme Court should soon reconsider a century-old precedent holding that the Seventh Amendment civil jury trial right does not bind the states.
The justices added three cases to their merits docket while putting off a mootness request in Little v. Hecox until oral argument.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied review in a case asking it to reconsider United States v. Kagama, drawing a dissent from Justice Neil Gorsuch that attacked federal Indian-law plenary power doctrine.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a challenge to a New Orleans jail-construction order, prompting a dissent that said lower courts misapplied the Prison Litigation Reform Act.
The justices reversed a Louisiana appellate ruling that applied a state public-health emergency immunity statute to defeat federal claims against a physical therapy provider.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review whether the Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably found that a petitioner waived his chance to rebut prosecutors’ race-neutral explanations for peremptory strikes against four Black jurors.
The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in several matters, including a Cisco case limited to two questions and consolidated FCC-related petitions set for one hour of argument.
The justices agreed to hear four cases, including a Monsanto dispute over whether federal pesticide law preempts a label-based failure-to-warn claim when EPA has not required the warning.
The administrative stay remains in place until May 11 while a response to GenBioPro's application is due May 7.
Justice Samuel Alito issued an administrative stay of a Fifth Circuit order while the Supreme Court awaits a response to Danco Laboratories' application.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a recall motion in two pending Callais matters and appointed a Washington lawyer to argue a sentencing-guidelines deference issue in Beaird v. United States.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. stayed a D.C. Circuit mandate involving Catherine Herridge while the Supreme Court considers a stay application.
The U.S. Supreme Court partly granted a request for divided argument and expanded time while denying an amici bid to take part.
The justices asked the parties to address how a disputed statutory phrase affects 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3) before acting on a stay request.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor recalled and stayed a Second Circuit mandate while the Supreme Court considers an application from a class representative for judgment creditors of the Ferdinand Marcos estate.
The emergency order gives the First Circuit time to rule on the government’s bid to stay Rhode Island federal court directives requiring full November SNAP funding.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a stay request after the government said disputed funds would remain in the United States while any certiorari petition is pending.
The justices said the government had not yet shown irreparable harm, but left room for a renewed request if discovery begins before a forthcoming certiorari petition is resolved.
Justice Samuel Alito issued an administrative stay of two Third Circuit orders while the Supreme Court awaits a response to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's application.
The Supreme Court denied review in a Humboldt County case, but Justice Gorsuch said the justices should soon reconsider precedent refusing to apply the Seventh Amendment civil jury right to the states.
The justices declined to stop Anthony Boyd's execution by nitrogen hypoxia, over a three-justice dissent saying the method risks minutes of conscious suffocation.
The justices declined to revisit United States v. Kagama, drawing a dissent that said the precedent's theory of federal plenary power over tribal affairs lacks a constitutional foundation.
The justices stayed a lower-court order blocking Texas’ mid-decade redistricting plan, splitting over whether the state’s new map reflected partisan line-drawing or unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.
The justices stayed a lower-court injunction blocking Texas' congressional redistricting plan, saying the state was likely to show serious errors in the racial-gerrymandering ruling.
The justice concurred in denying certiorari but said a district court was wrong to think federal judges are barred from explaining the criminal burden of proof.
The justices held that candidates have standing to challenge vote-counting rules in their own elections, sending Rep. Michael Bost's challenge to Illinois' post-election mail-ballot receipt deadline back to the lower courts.
The justices said one act that violates both 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and § 924(j) can support only one conviction absent clear congressional authorization.
The Supreme Court held that Rule 60's reasonable-time deadline applies even when a litigant argues a judgment is void.
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously revived an ex post facto challenge to a federal restitution order, holding that Mandatory Victims Restitution Act restitution counts as criminal punishment.
The justices said AEDPA required deference to a Maryland court's finding that an undisclosed forensic report was not material to Charles Brandon Martin's conviction.
The justices paused a New York trial-court order requiring a new congressional district while state appeals proceed, drawing sharp disagreement over race, jurisdiction and election timing.
The U.S. Supreme Court said Heck v. Humphrey does not bar a Section 1983 suit seeking only prospective relief from future enforcement of a city ordinance.
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Second Circuit and held a Vermont police sergeant was entitled to qualified immunity in a Fourth Amendment suit over his use of a rear wristlock during a state capitol sit-in.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented from the Supreme Court's refusal to take up Rodney Reed's latest bid for DNA testing in his Texas death-penalty case.
The justices said an internet provider is not contributorily liable for users' infringement merely because it kept providing service after receiving infringement notices.
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justice Jackson, said the Supreme Court should have reviewed James Skinner's bid for the same Brady relief his codefendant previously won.
The justices said Chevron plausibly tied challenged World War II crude-oil production to federal aviation-gasoline refining duties, vacating a Fifth Circuit remand ruling.
The justices said a D.C. officer had reasonable suspicion to stop a juvenile driver after a late-night suspicious-vehicle call, two passengers fled and the car began backing out with a door open.
The justice said the standard for reviewing whether a child is well settled under the Hague Convention has divided federal appeals courts, but changed circumstances made the case a poor vehicle for review.
The Supreme Court held that the 30-day deadline for removing civil cases to federal court cannot be equitably tolled, sending Michigan's Line 5 lawsuit against Enbridge back to state court.
The U.S. Supreme Court said the FAAAA's motor-vehicle safety exception saves a negligent-hiring claim against C.H. Robinson from federal preemption.
The U.S. Supreme Court stayed a Fifth Circuit order that had suspended 2023 FDA mifepristone dispensing changes, drawing dissents from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito over emergency relief for the drug's manufacturers.
The justice concurred in denying certiorari after the government said it had mistakenly fought Michael Lairy's challenge to a prison term five years above the statutory maximum.
The Supreme Court said cruise lines may face Title III liability for using Havana port docks confiscated after the Cuban Revolution, even though Havana Docks' concession would have expired before the cruises at issue.
The justices held 6-3 that prisoners cannot use Congress' nonretroactive reduction of Section 924(c) firearm-stacking penalties as an extraordinary and compelling reason for compassionate release.
The U.S. Supreme Court vacated an Eleventh Circuit habeas ruling for relying on post-trial DNA evidence when judging whether disputed jailhouse-informant testimony influenced a Florida murder jury.
The justices unanimously held that Amarin did not plausibly allege Hikma actively encouraged infringement of Vascepa cardiovascular-use patents.
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the Ninth Circuit, holding that the SEC may obtain disgorgement without first proving investors suffered pecuniary losses.
The justices held that federal pesticide law preempts a Missouri failure-to-warn claim seeking a cancer warning on Roundup's EPA-approved label.
The U.S. Supreme Court held that asylum seekers stopped in Mexico have not 'arrived in the United States' under key immigration statutes until they cross the border.
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, dissented from the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up Victor Saldaño’s bid for review of his intellectual-disability claim.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, said the court should have reviewed whether state law can automatically create an undue-hardship defense to religious-accommodation claims under Title VII.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Alan Dershowitz's defamation fight with Cable News Network, Inc., but two justices said the case was a vehicle to revisit the actual-malice standard for public figures.
Justice Sotomayor urged lower courts to weigh the Supreme Court's recent waiver reasoning before enforcing appeal or collateral-review waivers against defendants challenging their convictions.