• Florida v. Georgia Florida has made a legally sufficient showing as to the possibility of fashioning an effective remedial decree equitably apportioning the water from an interstate river basin.
• Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 The state of Illinois’ extraction of agency fees from nonconsenting public-sector employees violates the First Amendment; Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Ed., which concluded otherwise, is overruled.
• National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra Petitioners are likely to succeed on their claim that the California Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency Act (FACT Act) violates the First Amendment.
• Trump v. Hawaii The president has lawfully exercised the broad discretion granted to him under 8 U. S. C. §1182(f) to suspend the entry of aliens into the United States; respondents have not demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that Presidential Proclamation No. 9645 violates the establishment clause.
• Abbott v. Perez The district court disregarded the presumption of legislative good faith and improperly reversed the burden of proof when it required the state to show a lack of discriminatory intent in adopting new districting plans; one of the challenged state house districts is an impermissible racial gerrymander.
• China Agritech Inc. v. Resh Upon denial of class certification, a putative class member may not, in lieu of promptly joining an existing suit or promptly filing an individual action, commence a class action anew beyond the time allowed by the applicable statute of limitations.
• Merit Management Group, LP v. FTI Consulting, Inc. The Bankruptcy Code allows trustees to set aside and recover certain transfers for the benefit of the bankruptcy estate, including certain fraudulent transfers “of an interest of the debtor in property”; the Bankruptcy Code also sets out a number of limits on the exercise of these avoiding powers, including the Section 546(e) safe harbor – which, inter alia, provides that a “trustee may not avoid a transfer that is a … settlement payment … made by or to (or for the benefit of) a … financial institution .. or that is a transfer made by or to (or for the benefit of) a … financial institution … in connection with a securities contract.” In the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filed by Valley View Downs and its parent company, the only relevant transfer for purposes of the Section 546(e) safe harbor is the transfer that the trustee, FTI Consulting Inc., seeks to avoid, i.e., the transfer from Valley View to Merit Management Group for the sale of Bedford Downs Management’s stock.

• Symposium on the court’s ruling in Janus v. AFSCME
• Symposium on the court’s ruling in Trump v. Hawaii
• Symposium on October Term 2017’s separation-of-powers and administrative-law decisions
• Symposium on the court’s rulings in Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone
• Symposium on the court’s ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
• Symposium on the court’s ruling in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis
• Symposium before the oral argument in United States v. Microsoft
• Symposium before the oral argument in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky
• Symposium before the oral argument in Janus v. AFSCME
• Symposium before the oral argument in NIFLA v. Becerra

• Nomination | July 9, 2018 (with First Mondays)
• Orders | June 28, 2018 (with Jeffrey Pojanowski and Michael Dorf)
• Opinions | June 27, 2018 (with First Mondays)
• Opinions | June 26, 2018 (with SCOTUS Map and First Mondays)
• Orders and opinions | June 25, 2018 (with John Elwood and First Mondays)
• Opinions | June 22, 2018 (with First Mondays)
• Opinions | June 21, 2018 (with First Mondays)
• Orders and opinions | June 18, 2018 (with First Mondays)
• Opinions | June 14, 2018
• Orders and opinions | June 11, 2018
• Orders and opinions | June 4, 2018
• Orders and opinions | May 29, 2018
• Orders and opinions | May 21, 2018
• Orders and opinions | May 14, 2018
• Opinions | April 24, 2018
• Opinions | April 17, 2018
• Orders and opinions | April 2, 2018
• Opinions | March 27, 2018
• Opinions | March 21, 2018
• Opinions | March 20, 2018
• Orders and opinions | March 5, 2018
• Opinions | February 27, 2018
• Opinions | February 21, 2018
• Orders and opinions | January 22, 2018
• Opinions | November 8, 2017

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