Oral Arguments - The Supreme Court of the United States

Case Summary: The case involves Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor in Colorado, who wants to provide talk‑based counseling to minors aimed at helping them resist or change same‑sex attraction or gender‑transition goals, consistent with her religious beliefs and the minors’ stated objectives. Colorado’s Minor Conversion Therapy Law prohibits licensed mental‑health professionals from pe...

Case Summary: The case involves Dwayne Barrett, who participated in a series of armed robberies of commercial establishments in New York City during which he and his accomplices used firearms to threaten employees and steal money and property. During one of these robberies, a victim was shot and killed, and federal prosecutors charged Barrett both under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(i) for using a fire...

Case Summary: The U.S. Supreme Court considered whether Congressman Michael Bost, as a federal candidate, has Article III standing to challenge Illinois’ law allowing election officials to count mail ballots that are cast by Election Day but received up to fourteen days afterward.

Case Summary: The U.S. Supreme Court considered whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s postal exception, which bars suits “arising out of the loss, miscarriage, or negligent transmission” of mail, also shields the Postal Service from liability when postal employees intentionally refuse to deliver a customer’s mail. The case comes from a Texas landlord, Lebene Konan, who alleges that USPS employees...

Case Summary: The U.S. Supreme Court considered whether federal prisoners seeking postconviction relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 are not automatically barred by the “second or successive” claim-dismissal rule in § 2244(b)(1), a restriction that primarily governs state prisoners’ habeas applications under § 2254. The case arose from Michael Bowe’s attempt to challenge his mandatory consecutive 10‑yea...

Case Summary: The U.S. Supreme Court considered whether restitution imposed under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act constitutes criminal punishment rather than a purely civil debt. The case specifically questions whether Congress’s extension of the time period for collecting restitution, and applying that extension to offenses committed before the change, violates the Constitution’s Ex Post Fa...

Case Summary: The U.S. Supreme Court considered whether Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map, which intentionally created a second majority‑Black district to remedy a prior Voting Rights Act violation, itself violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment or the Fifteenth Amendment by constituting an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Case Summary: After receiving a report from his ex-girlfriend that he was threatening suicide and may have shot himself, law enforcement officers in Montana responded to William Case’s home. The officers were aware of Case’s mental health and substance abuse history, as well as prior threats of suicide and confrontations with police. Upon arrival, they received further details about the phone call...