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OPINION ANALYSIS

Supreme Court allows family’s suit against government for “wrong house” raid to continue

By Amy Howe on June 12 at 2:35 pm

On Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed a family to continue suing the government after FBI agents wrongly raided their home. An appeals court had found that the government could not be held liable under a federal law that generally waives the government’s immunity from lawsuits seeking compensation for injuries inflicted by federal employees. In reversing the appeals court, the Supreme Court determined the family’s claims should be evaluated under a different legal standard.

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The Supreme Court held that the appeals court had applied the wrong legal test. (Katie Barlow)

OPINION ANALYSIS

Justices rule for inmate whose lawsuit was dismissed on procedural grounds  

By Amy Howe on June 12 at 4:32 pm

Writing for an 8-1 majority, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that an inmate attempting to challenge his segregated confinement in a federal prison in West Virginia should not have seen his case dismissed over the timing of his notice of appeal.

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Supreme Court rejects inmate’s attempt to invalidate his convictions

By Amy Howe on June 12 at 6:00 pm

The court denied an inmate’s effort to overturn his convictions based on supposedly new evidence. According to Thursday’s ruling, the inmate brought the new evidence as a prohibited “second or successive” habeas petition.

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Unanimous court rebuffs higher standard for discrimination claims by children with disabilities

By Ronald Mann on June 12 at 6:32 pm

The justices agreed that children with disabilities should not have to prove intent to discriminate in order to recover damages in discrimination cases involving schools, but two concurring opinions drew out lingering conflict.

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San Francisco City Attorney 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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Additional opinions from Thursday, June 12

By SCOTUSblog on June 12, 2025

On Thursday, June 12, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions:

— In Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Zuch, the court considered whether a tax court has jurisdiction to hear a taxpayer’s appeal of a proposed levy to collect unpaid taxes once imposing a levy is no longer an option because the taxes have been paid in full.

In an 8-1 decision by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court held that tax courts no longer have jurisdiction under these circumstances. Specifically, Barrett wrote that “[b]ecause there was no longer a proposed levy, the Tax Court properly concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to resolve questions about Zuch’s disputed tax liability.”

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The morning read for Thursday, June 12

By Zachary Shemtob on June 12, 2025

We’re expecting one or more opinions from the court at 10 a.m. EDT. Join us for the live blog, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

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

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Reporters call for live-streaming opinion announcements

By Amy Howe on June 11, 2025

On June 7, 2024, a large group of reporters covering the Supreme Court (including this reporter) sent a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, asking him to consider live-streaming the audio of the court’s opinion announcements. They have not received a response to the letter, which they are now publicly releasing. The letter appears below. (In an article we ran on June 3, Kit Beyer of Fix the Court also urged the justices to livestream opinion announcements.) 

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TRIBUTES

The consummate public servant

By Paul Clement on June 11, 2025

On April 23, 2025, United States Deputy Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler made his 160th argument before the Supreme Court, following which he will be retiring. This article is one in a series of tributes from Mr. Kneedler’s former colleagues on his remarkable career.

Edwin Kneedler was the very model of a public servant. His career at the Justice Department spanned nine presidential administrations and coincided with remarkable changes in constitutional law and statutory interpretation. The Constitution as interpreted by the courts is very different today from what it was in the final years of the Carter administration. When Ed joined the Justice Department, Antonin Scalia was a law professor, Sandra Day O’Connor was a state-court judge, and John Roberts was graduating from law school. Courts still looked to the legislative history as often as the statutory text and interpreted statutes consistent with their remedial purposes, the wall of separation between church and state was high, and executive power was near its post-Watergate nadir. All of that changed over the course of Ed’s career.  

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The morning read for Wednesday, June 11

By Zachary Shemtob on June 11, 2025

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

Coming up: Tomorrow, June 12, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT that day for the opinion(s).