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By Amy Howe on Nov. 18 at 11:09 a.m.

The court did not add any cases to its docket on Monday for the 2024-25 term. The justices turned down several dozen petitions in a list of orders, including petitions on the constitutionality of two campaign finance laws enacted by Alaska voters in 2020 and an Alabama man’s death sentence appeal. The court did not act of a handful of high-profile petitions the justices have been considering at their private conferences.

The justices have yet to fill in the final three argument sessions of the term. (Aashish Kiphayet via Shutterstock)

By Amy Howe on Nov. 15 at 12:18 p.m.

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he will nominate D. John Sauer for solicitor general. Sauer argued and won Trump’s case in the Supreme Court earlier this year that earned him entitlement to broad immunity from prosecution. In private practice and as solicitor general of Missouri, Sauer has championed conservative causes including the death penalty, efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and laws to bar transgender women and girls from competing in school sports.

By Kalvis Golde on Nov. 12 at 12:07 p.m.

A weekly look at new and notable petitions seeking Supreme Court review. This week: The Federal Communications Commission asks the justices to uphold the constitutionality of its Universal Service Fund, the initiative that provides cheaper rates for phone and internet access to remote areas, low-income families, and public schools and libraries.

By Ronald Mann on Nov. 14 at 11:48 a.m.

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a dispute over the standard for evidence in a securities fraud class action based on allegedly false statements. The dispute involves statements by NVIDIA about the extent to which its profits depended on sales to the volatile crypto-mining market. For the most part, the justices who spoke seemed to think the dispute was too fact-specific to warrant their attention.

David Chiu discusses City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, in which the court is considering whether the Environmental Protection Agency violates the Clean Water Act when it imposes generic prohibitions in a permit for a city’s water discharges, without specifying explicit standards for discharges.

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By Ellena Erskine on Nov 20, 2024 at 10:59 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:

This Missouri lawyer pushed to limit abortion. Now he’s Trump’s solicitor general pick (Kacen Bayless & Daniel Desrochers, The Kansas City Star)
High Court 401(k) Suit Bid Targets Key Arbitration Exception (Austin R. Ramsey, Bloomberg Law)
Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy (Mead Gruver, The Associated Press)
Trump Is Gunning for Birthright Citizenship—and Testing the High Court (Matt Ford, The New Republic)
The New Anti-Abortion Argument Takes Us Back to the 19th Century (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times)

Coming up: On Friday, Nov. 22, the court expects to issue its first opinion(s) from argued cases this term.

By Ellena Erskine on Nov 19, 2024 at 10:16 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

U.S. Supreme Court will not review St. Clair capital murder case (Ralph Chapoco, Alabama Reflector)
US Supreme Court rejects appeal over patent validity in Postal Service case (Blake Brittain, Reuters)
Would Trump’s Justices Approve His Recess Appointments? (Jed Rubenfeld, The Wall Street Journal)
FDR’s Compliant Justices (Jed S. Rakoff, The New York Review of Books)
‘This is not his first rodeo’: will federal courts be able to rein in Trump? (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian)

Coming up: On Friday, Nov. 22, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term.

By Ellena Erskine on Nov 18, 2024 at 10:36 am

Mark your calendars, the court announced on Friday that the first opinion day of the term will be Nov. 22. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:

US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Alaska campaign finance law (Nate Raymond, Reuters)
US Supreme Court Bucks Recent Trend, Announces Opinion Release (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law)
The future of same-sex marriage under a second Trump administration, explained (Li Zhou, Vox)
Abortion pills may be FDA’s first test under Trump (Tina Reed, Axios)
Lawrence Robbins, Lawyer for Prominent D.C. Figures, Dies at 72 (Richard Sandomir, The New York Times)

By Ellena Erskine on Nov 15, 2024 at 10:32 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

Lawyer who argued for Trump’s immunity at Supreme Court is tapped for solicitor general (Josh Gerstein, Politico)
Trump picks lawyer who won his presidential immunity case for solicitor general (Alex Swoyer, The Washington Times)
Supreme Court Wary of Big Ruling in Nvidia Shareholder Case (Greg Stohr, Bloomberg)
Supreme Court Justices Discuss Peanut the Squirrel’s Death (James Bickerton, Newsweek)
The Conservative Justices Bet Dobbs Wouldn’t Hurt Republicans Forever. They Were Right (Jay Willis, Balls & Strikes)

By Ellena Erskine on Nov 14, 2024 at 11:19 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:

Supreme Court Seems Ready to Allow Securities Fraud Case Against Nvidia (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
Supreme Court whiplash: What Trump’s win means for guns and transgender care (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
Under Trump, US government legal stance poised to shift at Supreme Court (John Kruzel and Andrew Chung, Reuters)
California’s unhoused people protest US supreme court order: ‘Not going to push us out of view’ (Erin Sheridan, The Guardian)
Remembering Ted Olson, a titan of the law (Nina Totenberg, NPR)

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Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P. (23-124)
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Moore v. U.S. (22-800)
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Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri (22-193)
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			1	2	3 Conference private_conferences	4
5	6 Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz (22-846) oral_arguments	7 U.S. v. Rahimi (22-915) oral_arguments	8 Rudisill v. McDonough (22-888) oral_arguments	9 Conference private_conferences	10 Veterans Day holidays	11
12	13 Orders orders	14	15	16	17 Conference private_conferences	18
19	20 Orders orders	21	22	23 Thanksgiving Day holidays	24	25
26	27 Brown v. U.S. (22-6389) oral_arguments	28 McElrath v. Georgia (22-721) oral_arguments Wilkinson v. Garland (22-666) oral_arguments	29 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy (22-859) oral_arguments	30

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16	17 Orders orders	18	19 Juneteenth holidays	20 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	21 Opinions opinions	22
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5	6	7	8	9	10 Conference private_conferences	11
12	13 Orders orders Hewitt v. United States (23-1002) oral_arguments Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida (23-997) oral_arguments	14 Thompson v. United States (23-1095) oral_arguments Waetzig v. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (23-971) oral_arguments	15 Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton (23-1122) oral_arguments	16	17 Conference private_conferences	18
19	20 Martin Luther King Jr. Day holidays	21 FDA v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. (23-1187) oral_arguments McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation (23-1226) oral_arguments	22 Barnes v. Felix (23-1239) oral_arguments Cunningham v. Cornell University (23-1007) oral_arguments	23	24 Conference private_conferences	25
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