Supreme Court Opinions

Explore recent Supreme Court opinions and decisions.

Recent Opinions

• West Virginia v. B. P. J. — decided June 30, 2026 — Brett M. Kavanaugh — The Court's decision means states and schools may create and maintain separate sports teams for girls based solely on biological sex, consistent with Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause. This…
• National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n — decided June 30, 2026 — Brett M. Kavanaugh — The Supreme Court's decision means political parties can now spend unlimited amounts in coordination with their candidates on campaign activities like advertisements, without the previous legal caps…
• Trump v. Barbara — decided June 30, 2026 — John G. Roberts, Jr. — The Court's decision means that children born in the United States will remain citizens even if their parents are in the country illegally or only temporarily. This upholds the longstanding rule…
• Watson v. Republican National Committee — decided June 29, 2026 — Amy Coney Barrett — The Court's decision means that states may continue counting absentee ballots that arrive after election day, as long as they were postmarked by that date, without conflicting with federal law. This…
• Chatrie v. United States — decided June 29, 2026 — Elena Kagan — The Court's decision means that when police seek cell-phone location data like Google's Location History to investigate crimes—even for a short period—they are conducting a Fourth Amendment search…
• Trump v. Cook — decided June 29, 2026 — John G. Roberts, Jr. — The Court's decision keeps in place an injunction preventing the President's removal of a Federal Reserve Board member, at least until proper procedures are followed. This means the President must…
• Trump v. Slaughter — decided June 29, 2026 — John G. Roberts, Jr. — The Court's decision means the President can remove FTC Commissioners for any reason or none at all, rather than only for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance. This gives the President…
• Monsanto v. Durnell — decided June 25, 2026 — Brett M. Kavanaugh — The Court's decision means that pesticide manufacturers like Monsanto must follow only the EPA-approved labels for products like Roundup and cannot face state lawsuits requiring additional or…
• Mullin v. Doe — decided June 25, 2026 — Samuel A. Alito, Jr. — The Court's decision means that the government can end Temporary Protected Status for countries like Syria and Haiti without courts reviewing claims that the terminations violated required…
• Mullin v. Al Otro Lado — decided June 25, 2026 — Samuel A. Alito, Jr. — The Supreme Court's decision means that border officials are not required to inspect noncitizens or allow them to apply for asylum until they have actually crossed into the United States from…
• Wolford v. Lopez — decided June 25, 2026 — Samuel A. Alito, Jr. — The Court's decision means Hawaii's law requiring express permission before licensed gun owners can carry firearms onto private property open to the public is unconstitutional. In practice, this…
• Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe — decided June 23, 2026 — Amy Coney Barrett — The Court's decision means that people harmed by serious abuses abroad, such as torture or persecution, generally cannot sue U.S. companies or executives in federal court for helping those acts…
• Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación Cimex, S. A. (Cuba) — decided June 23, 2026 — Brett M. Kavanaugh — The Court's decision means that U.S. nationals whose property was confiscated by Cuba can now sue Cuban government-owned companies in federal court under the Helms-Burton Act without first…
• Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections and Public Safety — decided June 23, 2026 — Neil M. Gorsuch — The Court's decision means that under federal laws like RLUIPA, which condition prison funding on protections for inmates' religious practices, prisoners cannot sue individual state prison officials…
• Pung v. Isabella County — decided June 23, 2026 — Samuel A. Alito, Jr. — The Court's decision means governments can keep using public auctions to sell homes for unpaid taxes while returning to owners only the extra money above the debt owed, rather than the property's…
• Blanche v. Lau — decided June 23, 2026 — Clarence Thomas — The Court's decision clarifies that border officers may treat returning lawful permanent residents as applicants for admission (and thus subject to removal on inadmissibility grounds) based on…
• McCarthy v. Hernandez — decided June 22, 2026 — PC — The Supreme Court's decision reinforces strict limits under AEDPA on when federal courts may overturn state convictions, holding that no clearly established federal law from Seibert or elsewhere…
• United States v. Hemani — decided June 18, 2026 — Neil M. Gorsuch — The Court's decision means that the federal government cannot prosecute someone like Ali Hemani for owning a gun solely because he regularly uses marijuana, as this violates the Second Amendment…
• Hunter v. United States — decided June 18, 2026 — Elena Kagan — The Court's ruling means that when a defendant agrees in a plea deal not to appeal a sentence, courts can still review the sentence if enforcing the agreement would leave in place an obvious and…
• T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation — decided June 18, 2026 — Sonia Sotomayor — The Court's decision means that people who lose in state court cannot go to a federal trial court to challenge the state ruling or seek to undo its effects, even while the state case remains open to…

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