U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Announcements

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18-6210 - Mitchell v. Wisconsin - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2019
A case in which the Court vacated the judgment of the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirming the drunk-driving convictions of petitioner Mitchell, who was administered a warrantless blood test while he was unconscious, and remanded the case.
18-422 - Rucho v. Common Cause - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2019
A case in which the Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.
18-966 - Department of Commerce v. New York - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2019
A case in which the Court held that the Secretary of Commerce did not violate the Enumeration Clause or the Census Act in deciding to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 census questionnaire, but the district court was warranted in remanding the
18-422 - Rucho v. Common Cause - Opinion Announcement - June 27, 2019
A case in which the Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.
18-96 - Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2019
A case in which the Court held that a state’s regulation of liquor sales by granting licenses only to individuals or entities that have resided in-state for a specified time violates the dormant Commerce Clause and is not saved by the Twenty-First Amendme
18-15 - Kisor v. Wilkie - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2019
A case in which the Court held that Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997), and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., 325 U.S. 410 (1945), which direct courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of its own ambiguous regulation, are not overruled
17-1672 - United States v. Haymond - Opinion Announcement - June 26, 2019
A case in which the Court vacated the Tenth Circuit’s decision holding that 18 U.S.C. § 3583(k), which imposes a mandatory minimum punishment on a criminal defendant upon a finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant engaged in certain c
18-431 - United States v. Davis - Opinion Announcement - June 24, 2019
A case in which the Court held that the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B)which applies only in the limited context of a federal criminal prosecution for possessing, using or carrying a firearm in connection
18-302 - Iancu v. Brunetti - Opinion Announcement - June 24, 2019
A case in which the Court held that the Lanham Act’s prohibition on the federal registration of “immoral” or “scandalous” marks, in Section 2(a), violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.
18-266 - The Dutra Group v. Batterton - Opinion Announcement - June 24, 2019
A case in which the Court held that punitive damages are not available to a Jones Act seaman in a personal injury lawsuit alleging a breach of the general maritime duty to provide a seaworthy vessel.