Special Features

Special Features

Argument preview: Justices to consider constitutionality of cross-shaped war memorial on public land – Amy Howe

Argument preview: Justices address circuit split on whether a period of pretrial imprisonment can toll a term of federal supervised release – Fiona Doherty

Relist Watch – John Elwood

Feb. 2019

Featured Posts

Sponsored by Casetext

Email Digest Sign-Up

Merits Case Pages and Archives

This Week at the Court

Major Cases

Recent Decisions

Current Relists

Recent Special Features

Statistical Snapshot

Live Blog Archives

Twitter Feed

Calendar: February 2019

Download our App in the Apple Store

First Mondays see all

Videos see all

Peabody Award

Sigma Delta Chi

National Press Club Award

Silver Gavel Award

American Gavel Award

Webby Award

Conference of February 15, 2019

Conference

Holiday

Orders

RETURN MAIL INC. V. U.S. POSTAL SERVICE (17-1594)

MISSION PRODUCT HOLDINGS INC. V. TEMPNOLOGY INC. (17-1657)

Opinions

Conference

Orders

MANHATTAN COMMUNITY ACCESS CORP. V. HALLECK (17-1702)

UNITED STATES V. HAYMOND (17-1672)

MONT V. UNITED STATES (17-8995)

THE AMERICAN LEGION V. AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION (17-1717)

Links to online symposia addressing court cases and issues involving the court, and more

Symposia before oral arguments of October Term 2018
- Symposium before the oral arguments in Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek
- Symposium before the oral argument in Kisor v. Wilkie
- Symposium before the oral argument in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association
Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court
- Judge Kavanaugh's jurisprudence
Retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy
- Justice Kennedy's jurisprudence
- Profiling potential nominees to succeed Justice Kennedy
- Tributes to Justice Anthony Kennedy
Symposia on rulings from October Term 2017
- 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
Symposia before oral arguments of October Term 2017
- 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
- Summer symposium on Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
- Summer symposium on Christie v. NCAA
- Summer symposium on Gill v. Whitford
- Summer symposium on Carpenter v. United States
- Summer symposium on Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC
- Summer symposium on Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project and Trump v. Hawaii
Symposia on rulings from October Term 2016
- Symposium on October Term 2016’s immigration decisions
- Symposium on October Term 2016’s death-penalty decisions
- Symposium on the court's ruling in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer
- Symposium on October Term 2016’s racial-gerrymandering decisions
- Symposium on the court's ruling in Matal v. Tam
Nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court
- Live blogs of Gorsuch's nomination announcement and confirmation hearing
- A close look at Judge Neil Gorsuch’s jurisprudence
Symposia before oral arguments of October Term 2016
- Symposium before the oral argument in Lee v. Tam
- Symposium before the oral argument in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Pauley
Profiling potential nominees to succeed Justice Scalia
The Court after Scalia
Symposia on rulings from October Term 2015
- Symposium on the Court's ruling in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
- Symposium on the Court's ruling in McDonnell v. United States
- Symposium on the Court's ruling in Fisher II
- Symposium on the Court's ruling in United States v. Texas
- Symposium on the Court’s ruling in Zubik v. Burwell
The potential nominees to succeed Justice Scalia
Justice Scalia passes away
- Tributes to Justice Antonin Scalia
United States v. Texas symposium
Whole Woman's Health v. Cole symposium
Contraceptive mandate symposium
- Zubik v. Burwell symposium
Fisher II symposium
Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association
One person, one vote and Evenwel
Lethal injections and Glossip v. Gross
Same-Sex Marriage
- Same-Sex Marriage Post-Windsor
  - Obergefell v. Hodges symposium
Health Care
- Affordable Care Act ‘Exchange’ Challenges
  - King v. Burwell
Fair Housing Act
- Texas Dept. of Housing v. The Inclusive Communities Project symposium
Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar symposium
Zivotofsky v. Kerry symposium
Same-sex marriage and the 14th Amendment
Recess Appointments
Harris v. Quinn symposium
Aereo symposium
Cell phone privacy symposium
Alice Corp. symposium
Campaign Finance
Legislative prayer symposium
Greenhouse gas symposium
Abortion regulation symposium
Affirmative action symposium
- Affirmative Action After Fisher
The Court and the Voting Rights Act
Fisher Symposium
Gene Patenting Symposium
Election Symposium
Alexander Bickel Symposium
Kiobel Symposium
Immigration
The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act
Affordable Care Act in depth
Arbitration
Class Actions
30 Days of Stevens
Race and the Supreme Court

Featured Posts

Argument preview: Justices to consider constitutionality of cross-shaped war memorial on public land – Amy Howe

Argument preview: Justices address circuit split on whether a period of pretrial imprisonment can toll a term of federal supervised release – Fiona Doherty

Relist Watch – John Elwood
Sponsored by Casetext
Email Digest Sign-Up
Receive a daily email digest from Feedburner by entering your email.
Merits Case Pages and Archives

Archives

or

This Week at the Court
The Supreme Court released orders from the February 15 conference on Tuesday; the justices added County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund to next term's merits docket and summarily reversed in Moore v. Texas.
On Wednesday the justices released their opinions in Dawson v. Steager and Timbs v. Indiana.
On Tuesday, the justices heard oral argument in Return Mail Inc. v. United States Postal Service.
On Wednesday, the justices heard oral argument in Mission Product Holdings Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC.
On Friday, the justices will meet for their February 22 conference.
Major Cases
- Lamone v. Benisek
  In case in which the plaintiffs allege that a Maryland congressional district was gerrymandered to retaliate against them for their political views: (1) whether the various legal claims articulated by the three-judge district court are unmanageable; (2) whether the three-judge district court erred when, in granting plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment, it resolved disputes of material fact as to multiple elements of plaintiffs’ claims, failed to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, and treated as “undisputed” evidence that is the subject of still-unresolved hearsay and other evidentiary objections; and (3) whether the three-judge district court abused its discretion in entering an injunction despite the plaintiffs’ years-long delay in seeking injunctive relief, rendering the remedy applicable to at most one election before the next decennial census necessitates another redistricting.
- Kisor v. Wilkie
  Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Auer v. Robbins and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., which direct courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of its own ambiguous regulation.
- Rucho v. Common Cause
  (1) Whether plaintiffs have standing to press their partisan gerrymandering claims; (2) whether plaintiffs’ partisan gerrymandering claims are justiciable; and (3) whether North Carolina’s 2016 congressional map is, in fact, an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
- New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York
  Whether New York City’s ban on transporting a licensed, locked and unloaded handgun to a home or shooting range outside city limits is consistent with the Second Amendment, the commerce clause and the constitutional right to travel.
- The American Legion v. American Humanist Association
  (1) Whether a 93-year-old memorial to the fallen of World War I is unconstitutional merely because it is shaped like a cross; (2) whether the constitutionality of a passive display incorporating religious symbolism should be assessed under the tests articulated in Lemon v. Kurtzman, Van Orden v. Perry, Town of Greece v. Galloway or some other test; and (3) whether, if the test from Lemon v. Kurtzman applies, the expenditure of funds for the routine upkeep and maintenance of a cross-shaped war memorial, without more, amounts to an excessive entanglement with religion in violation of the First Amendment.
- Gamble v. United States
  Whether the Supreme Court should overrule the “separate sovereigns” exception to the double jeopardy clause.
see all this term’s cases »
Recent Decisions
- Dawson v. Steager By taxing the federal pension benefits of U.S. Marshals Service retiree James Dawson, while exempting from taxation the pension benefits of certain state and local law enforcement officers, West Virginia unlawfully discriminates against Dawson as 4 U.S.C. §111 forbids.
- Timbs v. Indiana The Eighth Amendment’s excessive fines clause is an incorporated protection applicable to the states under the 14th Amendment’s due process clause.
- Moore v. Texas The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ redetermination that Bobby James Moore does not have an intellectual disability and is thus eligible for the death penalty is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's 2017 decision in Moore v. Texas.
see all this term’s cases »
Current Relists
- Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda Whether the prohibition in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1), against employment discrimination “because of . . . sex” encompasses discrimination based on an individual’s sexual orientation.
- Baxter v. United States (1) Whether a conviction for robbery under Florida law qualifies as a “violent felony” within the Armed Career Criminal Act’s elements clause simply because it requires overcoming victim resistance, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has held, or whether such a conviction fails to qualify as an ACCA “violent felony” because Florida caselaw confirms that overcoming victim resistance does not invariably requires the use of “violent force” as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has held; and (2) whether a conviction for any state robbery offense that includes “as an element” the common law requirement of overcoming “victim resistance” is categorically a “violent felony” within the ACCA’s elements clause if the offense has been specifically interpreted by state appellate courts to require only slight force to overcome resistance.
- Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia Whether discrimination against an employee because of sexual orientation constitutes prohibited employment discrimination “because of . . . sex” within the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2.
More Petitions »
Recent Special Features
Statistical Snapshot

Cases argued 45

Cases decided 13

Summary reversals 3

Merits cases granted to date 74

see all »
Live Blog Archives
See all
Twitter Feed

Tweets by @SCOTUSblog

Full Calendar Submit Event

Orders/Opinions
Arguments
Conferences

Events
Holidays
Multiple

Download our App in the Apple Store
First Mondays see all
Videos see all

Justice Sotomayor at the Library of Congress

On February 14, Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared at the Library of Congress with Chief Judge Robert Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and Professor Eloise Pasachoff of the Georgetown University Law Center for the Supreme Court Fellows Annual Lecture.

Peabody Award
Awarded the Peabody Award for excellence in electronic media.
Sigma Delta Chi
Awarded the Sigma Delta Chi deadline reporting award for online coverage of the Affordable Care Act decision.
National Press Club Award
Awarded the National Press Club's Breaking News Award for coverage of the Affordable Care Act decision.
Silver Gavel Award
Awarded the Silver Gavel Award by the American Bar Association for fostering the American public’s understanding of the law and the legal system.
American Gavel Award
Awarded the American Gavel Award for Distinguished Reporting About the Judiciary to recognize the highest standards of reporting about courts and the justice system.
Webby Award
Awarded the Webby Award for excellence on the internet.

15
Conference

19
Orders
RETURN MAIL INC. V. U.S. POSTAL SERVICE (17-1594)

20
MISSION PRODUCT HOLDINGS INC. V. TEMPNOLOGY INC. (17-1657)
Opinions

22
Conference

25
Orders
MANHATTAN COMMUNITY ACCESS CORP. V. HALLECK (17-1702)

26
UNITED STATES V. HAYMOND (17-1672)
MONT V. UNITED STATES (17-8995)

27
THE AMERICAN LEGION V. AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION (17-1717)

Cases argued	45
Cases decided	13
Summary reversals	3
Merits cases granted to date	74