Supreme Court Opinions

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Connelly v United States.      In this case, the court considered this issue: should the proceeds of a life insurance policy taken out by a closely held corporation on a shareholder in order to facilitate the redemption of the shareholder’s stock be considered a corporate asset when calculating the value of the...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Becerra v San Carlos Apache Tribe.      In this case, the court considered this issue: Must the Indian Health Service pay “contract support costs” not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe’s expenditure of income collected from third parties? The case was decided on June 6, 2024. T...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Truck Insurance Exchange v Kaiser Gypsum Co.      In this case, the court considered this issue: Is an insurer with financial responsibility for a bankruptcy claim a “party in interest” that may object to a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code? The case was decided on June 6, 2024. The...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Thornell v Jones.      In this case, the court considered this issue: What is the proper methodology for assessing prejudice, for purposes of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim? The case was decided on May 30, 2024. The Supreme Court held that when a capital defendant claims that he was prejudiced at sen...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Cantero v Bank of America. In this case, the court considered this issue: When are state laws that regulate national banks preempted under federal law? The case was decided on May 30, 2024. The Supreme Court held that under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, state laws are pre...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in National Rifle Association of America v Vullo.      In this case, the court considered this issue: does a New York regulator’s discouragement of companies from doing business with the National Rifle Association after the Parkland school shooting constitute coercion in violation of the First Amendment? The case w...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Brown v United States.      In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act incorporate the federal drug schedules that were in effect at the time of the federal firearm offense? The case was decided on May 23, 2024. The Supreme Court hel...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Coinbase v Suski.      In this case, the court considered this issue: when parties enter into an arbitration agreement with a delegation clause, does an arbitrator or a court decide whether that arbitration agreement is narrowed by a later contract that is silent as to arbitration and delegation? The case was de...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Alexander V South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP.      In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the South Carolina legislature’s redistricting map, which has the effect of moving tens of thousands of Black voters to a different district, constitute an impermissible racial gerrymander, even if...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Smith v Spizzirri.      In this case, the court considered this issue: Does Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act give district courts discretion to dismiss a lawsuit when all claims are subject to arbitration? The case was decided on May 16, 2024. The Supreme Court held that when a district court finds that...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v Community Financial Services Assn. of America, Ltd.       In this case, the court considered this issue: Does the funding scheme for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which receives funding directly from the Federal Reserve, violate the Appropriations Clause of the...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Harrow v Department of Defense.      In this case, the court considered this issue: Is the 60-day filing deadline in 5 U-S-C § 7703(b)(1)(A) jurisdictional and thus not subject to equitable tolling? The case was decided on May 16, 2024. The Supreme Court held that the 60-day filing deadline for a federal employe...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v Nealy. In this case, the court considered this issue: Under the discovery accrual rule applied by the circuit courts and the Copyright Act’s statute of limitations for civil actions, 17 U-S-C § 507(b), may a copyright plaintiff recover damages for acts that allegedly occurred more t...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Culley v Marshall. In this case, the court considered this issue: What test must a district court apply when determining whether and when a post-deprivation hearing is required under the Due Process Clause? The case was decided on May 9, 2024.  The Supreme Court held that in civil forfeiture cases involving pers...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in McIntosh v United States. In this case, the court considered this issue: May a district court enter a criminal forfeiture order when the time limit specified in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure has already passed? The case was decided on April 17, 2024. The Supreme Court held that a district court’s failu...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Muldrow v City of St. Louis. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit discrimination in transfer decisions absent a separate court determination that the transfer decision caused a signification disadvantage? The case was decided on April 17, 2024. Th...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in DeVillier v Texas. In this case, the court considered this issue: May a party sue a state directly under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment? The case was decided on April 16, 2024. The Court did not resolve the question presented because the case’s underlying premise was incorrect; the property owners adv...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Rudisill v McDonough. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is a veteran who has served two separate and distinct periods of qualifying service under the Montgomery GI Bill and the Post-9/11 GI Bill entitled to receive a total of 48 months of education benefits without first exhausting the Montgomery be...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Sheetz v El Dorado County. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is a monetary exaction imposed by a local government as a condition for a building permit exempt from the “essential nexus” and “rough proportionality” requirements established in Nollan v California Coastal Comm’n and Dolan v City of Tiga...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v Moab Partners, L. P. In this case, the court considered this issue: May a failure to make a disclosure required under Item 303 of SEC Regulation S-K support a private claim under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, even in the absence of an otherwise misleading...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Bissonnette v LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC. In this case, the court considered this issue: To be exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, must a class of workers that is actively engaged in interstate transportation also be employed by a company in the transportation industry? The case was decided on April 12,...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in FBI v Fikre. In this case, the court considered this issue: Are respondent’s claims challenging his placement on the No Fly List moot, given that he was removed from the No Fly List in 2016 and the government provided a sworn declaration stating that he “will not be placed on the No Fly List in the future based...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Wilkinson v Garland. In this case, the court considered this issue: Is an agency determination that a given set of established facts does not rise to the statutory standard of “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship” a mixed question of law and fact reviewable under 8 U-S-C § 1252(a)(2)(D), or instead a disc...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Pulsifer v United States. In this case, the court considered this issue: Must a defendant show he does not meet any of the criteria listed in 18U-S-C § 3553(f) to qualify for a sentence lower than the statutory minimum? The case was decided on March 15, 2024. The Supreme Court held that a defendant must satisfy...

Welcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in O'Connor-Ratcliff v Garnier. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does a public official engage in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official’s personal social media account, which the official uses to communicate about job-related matters with the publi...