Supreme Court Opinions

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Sripetch v SEC. In this case, the court considered this issue: May the SEC seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. §§ 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm?  The case was decided on June 4, 2026.  The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted. If y...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Allen v Milligan. In Allen v Milligan, the Supreme Court considered whether Alabama’s 2021 congressional redistricting map violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting strength of Black Alabamians. The case was decided on June 2, 2026. The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Whitton v Dixon. In this case, the court considered whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by relying on post-trial DNA evidence (discovered years after the original trial) when evaluating whether the Florida Supreme Court reasonably determined that a Giglio error was harmless and that the evidence against Whitton w...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Rutherford v United States. In this case, the court considered this issue: May a district court, when evaluating a motion for compassionate release under 18 U-S-C § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), consider as an “extraordinary and compelling reason” the fact that a defendant is serving a sentence substantially longer than wha...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Fernandez v United States. In this case, the court considered this issue: Can a federal prisoner use the compassionate release law to get their sentence reduced based on claims that they might be innocent or that their sentence is unfair, even though these same claims would normally have to be raised through hab...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Pitchford v Cain. In this case, the court considered this issue: Did the Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably decide—under the standards set by federal habeas law—that Terry Pitchford gave up his right to argue that the prosecutor’s explanations for striking four Black jurors were false or racially biased? The...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock.  In this case, the court considered this issue: Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce—but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles that cross borders—“transportation workers” “engaged in foreign or interstate commerc...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Margolin v. National Association of Immigration Judges.  In this case, the court considered this issue: whether the Fourth Circuit violated the principle of party presentation by vacating and remanding the case on a novel jurisdictional issue regarding the Civil Service Reform Act’s functioning that the parties...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is the legal right to sue under Title 3 of the LIBERTAD Act tied to the confiscated property claim or the hypothetical, unexpired duration of the original property interest? The case was decided on May 21, 2026. Th...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Hamm v. Smith. In this case, the court considered this issue: When a capital defendant has taken multiple IQ tests with varying results, how should courts evaluate the cumulative effect of those scores to determine whether the defendant has significantly subaverage intellectual functioning under Atkins v. Virgin...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in M & K Employee Solutions, Inc. v. Trustees of IAM Nat. Pension. In this case, the court considered this issue: When a pension plan calculates how much a departing employer owes “as of the end of the plan year,” must the plan use the financial assumptions it had already adopted by that date, or can it use new...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties.  In this case, the court considered this issue: Does a federal court that initially exercises jurisdiction and stays a case pending arbitration maintain jurisdiction over a post-arbitration Section 9 or 10 application where jurisdiction would otherwise be lacking? The case was d...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Montgomery  v Caribe Transport II, LLC.  In this case, the court considered this issue: Does 49 U.S.C. § 14501(c) preempt a state common-law claim against a broker for negligently selecting a motor carrier or driver? The case was decided on May 14, 2026. The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with ci...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Louisiana v. Callais.  In this case, the court considered this issue: Does Louisiana’s creation of a second majority-Black congressional district constitute unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, even when drawn in response to a federal court finding that the state’s prior single majority-Black district likely...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport. In this case, the court considered this issue: When the recipient of a state investigatory subpoena demonstrates an objectively reasonable chill of its First Amendment rights, does a federal court lack jurisdiction to hear the case because those const...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Enbridge Energy, LP v. Nessel.  In this case, the court considered this issue: Do district courts have the authority to excuse the thirty-day procedural time limit for removal in 28 USC § 1446(b)(1)? The case was decided on April 22, 2026. The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Hencely v. Fluor Corp. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does Boyle v. United Technologies Corporation, which immunized government contractors from liability under certain circumstances, extend to preempt state tort claims against a government contractor for conduct that breached its contract and vi...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in District of Columbia v. R-W The central issue in District of Columbia v. R-W was whether the Fourth Amendment’s "totality of the circumstances" standard allows a court to ignore specific suspicious factors, such as the unprovoked flight of a driver's companions, when determining if an officer had r...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish. In this case, the court considered this issue: Can an oil company being sued in state court for its World War II-era oil production move its case to federal court simply because the oil was produced to meet federal government contracts for wartime fuel—even if the contract...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Chiles v Salazar. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does a Colorado law banning “conversion therapy”—i.e., attempts to “convert” someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity—violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment? The case was decided on March 31, 2026. The opinion is presented her...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Rico v United States.  In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the fugitive-tolling doctrine apply in the context of supervised release? The case was decided on March 25, 2026.  The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted. If you appreciate this episode, please subscribe...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Cox Communications, Inc. v Sony Music Entertainment.  In this case, the court considered this issue: Can an internet service provider be held liable, and found to have acted willfully, for copyright infringement just because it knew users were infringing and did not terminate their access? The case was decided o...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Olivier v. City of Brandon.  In this case, the court considered this issue: Does Heck v. Humphrey bar Section 1983 claims for purely prospective relief when the plaintiff has already been punished under the challenged law, and does that bar apply even if the plaintiff lacked access to federal habeas relief? The...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Urias-Orellana v Bondi. In this case, the court considered this issue: Must a federal court of appeals defer to the BIA’s judgment that a given set of undisputed facts does not demonstrate mistreatment severe enough to constitute “persecution” under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)? The case was decided on March 4, 2026....

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Galette v New Jersey Transit Corp. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is the New Jersey Transit Corporation an arm of the State of New Jersey for interstate sovereign immunity purposes? The case was decided on March 4, 2026.  The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted....