A case in which the Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.

U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Announcements

18-422 - Rucho v. Common Cause - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2019

A case in which the Court vacated the judgment of the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirming the drunk-driving convictions of petitioner Mitchell, who was administered a warrantless blood test while he was unconscious, and remanded the case.

18-6210 - Mitchell v. Wisconsin - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the Secretary of Commerce did not violate the Enumeration Clause or the Census Act in deciding to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 census questionnaire, but the district court was warranted in remanding the case to the agency where the evidence tells a story that does not match the Secretary’s explanation for his decision.

18-966 - Department of Commerce v. New York - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2019

A case in which the Court vacated the Tenth Circuit’s decision holding that 18 U.S.C. § 3583(k), which imposes a mandatory minimum punishment on a criminal defendant upon a finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant engaged in certain criminal conduct while under supervised release, violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.

17-1672 - United States v. Haymond - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2019

A case in which the Court held that Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997), and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., 325 U.S. 410 (1945), which direct courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of its own ambiguous regulation, are not overruled.

18-15 - Kisor v. Wilkie - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2019

A case in which the Court held that a state’s regulation of liquor sales by granting licenses only to individuals or entities that have resided in-state for a specified time violates the dormant Commerce Clause and is not saved by the Twenty-First Amendment.

18-96 - Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2019

A case in which the Court held that punitive damages are not available to a Jones Act seaman in a personal injury lawsuit alleging a breach of the general maritime duty to provide a seaworthy vessel.

18-266 - The Dutra Group v. Batterton - Opinion Announcement - June 24, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the Lanham Act’s prohibition on the federal registration of “immoral” or “scandalous” marks, in Section 2(a), violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.

18-302 - Iancu v. Brunetti - Opinion Announcement - June 24, 2019

A case in which the Court held that where commercial or financial information is both customarily and actually treated as private by its owner and provided to the government under an assurance of privacy, the information is “confidential” within the meaning of Exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(4).

18-481 - Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media - Opinion Announcement - June 24, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the subsection-specific definition of “crime of violence” in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)—which applies only in the limited context of a federal criminal prosecution for possessing, using or carrying a firearm in connection with acts comprising such a crime—is unconstitutionally vague.

18-431 - United States v. Davis - Opinion Announcement - June 24, 2019

A case in which the Court held that a government violates the Takings Clause when it takes property without compensation, and a property owner may bring a Fifth Amendment claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 at that time; the state-litigation requirement set forth in Williamson County Regional Planning Comm’n v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City, 473 U.S. 172 (1985), is overruled.

17-647 - Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania - Opinion Announcement - June 21, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the “knowingly” provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) applies to both the possession and status elements of a § 922(g) crime.

17-9560 - Rehaif v. United States - Opinion Announcement - June 21, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the trial court in this case committed clear error at Flowers’ sixth murder trial by concluding that the state’s peremptory strike of a particular black prospective juror was not motivated in substantial part by discriminatory intent.

17-9572 - Flowers v. Mississippi - Opinion Announcement - June 21, 2019

A case in which the Court held that the presence of in-state beneficiaries alone does not empower a state to tax trust income that has not been distributed to the beneficiaries where the beneficiaries have no right to demand that income and are uncertain to receive it.

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