Jun 26, 2024 · The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a federal anti-bribery law does not make it a crime for state and local officials to accept a gratuity for acts that they have already taken. Writing for a six-justice majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained that state and local governments already regul

Jun 13, 2024 · This article was updated on June 13 at 2:20 p.m. The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit seeking to roll back access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortions. In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that the doctors and medical groups challenging the expansion of access to the drug by the Food and Drug Administration in 2016 and 2021 lack a legal right to ...

Feb 25, 2025 · Date Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding); Jun 17 2024: Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 22, 2024) Jul 05 2024: Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 22, 2024 to August 21, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.

Jan 10, 2025 · Holding: The challenged provisions of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act do not violate petitioners’ First Amendment rights.. Judgment: Affirmed in a per curiam opinion on January 17, 2025. Justice Sotomayor filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. Justice Gorsuch filed an opinion concurring in the judgment.

Oct 7, 2024 · Holding: When a plaintiff amends her complaint to delete the federal-law claims that enabled removal to federal court, leaving only state-law claims behind, the federal court loses supplemental jurisdiction over the state claims, and the case must be remanded to state court.. Judgment: Affirmed, 9-0, in an opinion by Justice Kagan on January 15, 2025.

On Monday, July 1, we were live as the court released the remaining opinions in argued cases from the 2023-24 term. In Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors, the court holds that a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act to challenge an agency action first comes into being when the plaintiff is injured by final agency action.; The court …

Jul 26, 2024 · The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Biden administration’s efforts to regulate so-called “ghost guns” in the first week of the 2024-25 term in October, followed the next day by an unusual death-penalty case – in which the state’s attorney general supports the condemned man’s efforts to overturn his conviction and sentence.

Apr 25, 2024 · Holding: The nature of presidential power entitles a former president to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority; he is also entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts; there is no immunity for unofficial acts.. Judgment: Vacated and remanded, 6-3, in an opinion by Chief ...

3 The Second Circuit in Bell Atlantic had taken the view that: “The factual predicate that is pleaded does need to include conspiracy among the realm of plausible possibilities” (425 F.3d at 111 (emphasis added)). The Supreme Court held that a mere-possibility standard does not

Issues: (1) Whether the Constitution’s supremacy clause bars claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act when the negligent or wrongful acts of federal employees have some nexus with furthering federal policy and can reasonably be characterized as complying with the full range of federal law; and 2) whether the discretionary-function exception is categorically inapplicable to claims arising ...