Supreme Court Update: Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee (No. 19-1257), Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta (No. 19-251), Johnson v. Guzman Chavez (No. 19-987)

by Emily Rotondo | Jul 6, 2021

Let’s get right to it… At issue in Brnovich v. DNC were two restrictions in Arizona’s otherwise fairly permissive voting laws. First, some counties do not count in-person ballots cast on election day if they are cast in the wrong precinct. Second, mail-in ballots can...

Supreme Court Update: Brnovich v. Arizona (No. 19-1257), Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta (No. 19-251), Minerva Surgical v. Hologic (No. 20-440), Johnson v. Guzman Chavez (No. 19-897), PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey (No. 19-1309), Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation (No. 20-543), HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining v. Renewable Fuels Assn (No. 20-472)

by Emily Rotondo | Jul 1, 2021

Greetings, Court Fans! In the final day of OT20, the Court handed down its two biggest decisions of the term: In Brnovich v. Arizona (No. 19-1257), the Court held (in a 6-3 decision by Justice Alito, with Justice Kagan leading the dissent), that two of Arizona’s...

Supreme Court Update: Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation (No. 20-543), Transunion LLC v. Ramirez (No. 20-297), Hollyfrontier Cheyenne Refining v. Renewable Fuels Ass’n (No. 20-472), Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (No. 20-255), Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid (No. 20-107), Collins v. Yellen (No. 19-422), Lange v. California (No. 20-18)

by Emily Rotondo | Jun 29, 2021

Greetings, Court Fans! Maybe The Nine are aware that President Biden’s SCOTUS-reform commission is meeting next week, or maybe they’re just not the political animals they’ve been made out to be, but the Js finished out the (presumably) penultimate week of OT20 with a...

Supreme Court Update: Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (No. 20-255), Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid (No. 20-107), Collins v. Yellen (No. 19-422), Lange v. California (No. 20-18), NCAA v. Alston (No. 20-512), United States v. Arthrex (No. 19-1434), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System (No. 20-222)

by Emily Rotondo | Jun 24, 2021

Greetings, Court Fans! Four new opinions today, including the case of the cussing cheerleader, Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (No. 20-255), where the Court held (8-1) that, while schools may sometimes have a special interest in regulating some types of...

Supreme Court Update: NCAA v. Alston (No. 20-512), United States v. Arthrex (No. 19-1434), Goldman Sachs Group v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System (No. 20-222), California v. Texas (No. 19-840), Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (No. 19-123), Nestle USA, Inc. v. Doe (No. 19-416)

by Emily Rotondo | Jun 22, 2021

Greetings, Court Fans! Yesterday, in the first of three announcements scheduled for this week, the Court handed down three decisions: In NCAA v. Alston (No. 20-512), the Court unanimously affirmed a lower-court decision enjoining the NCAA from restricting member...