The justices enter the month of June with 33 decisions left to release – over half of the Supreme Court’s docket for the term. We are still waiting on the court’s opinions in high-profile cases involving abortion, gun rights, and religion, but the justices are also tackling issues such as deference to administrative agencies, the… Read More

Three years ago, in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Supreme Court ruled that government employees who are represented by a union but do not belong to that union cannot be required to pay a fee to cover the union’s contract negotiation costs. In Baisley v. International Association of Machinists… Read More

In two weeks, the justices will meet for the “long conference”: their first regularly scheduled conference since early July. They will consider thousands of petitions for review that have accumulated during that time, but they will only grant a few. This post highlights four of the cases distributed for the “long conference,” involving agency deference,… Read More

When the justices meet for their next regularly scheduled conference, on September 27, they will face thousands of petitions for review. They will grant only a handful of those petitions – last year, seven new cases, for a total of four hours of argument time. Between now and the end of September, I will take… Read More

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued three more opinions in argued cases and announced that it would issue all of the remaining decisions (or, using its standard language for this announcement, “all remaining opinions ready”) on Thursday, July 1, at 10 a.m. Eastern.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued three more opinions in argued cases. The justices also announced that they would issue the remaining opinions on Thursday, July 1, at 10 a.m. Eastern. There are only two cases left to be decided: Arizona Republican Party v. Democratic National Committee and Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee (argued Mar…. Read More

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued four more opinions in argued cases. With (in all likelihood) less than a week to go before the justices’ summer recess, the court still has eight opinions to go. Here is a brief summary of the issues in those cases:

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued four more opinions in argued cases, resolving cases on topics ranging from student speech and the Fourth Amendment to the separation of powers and property rights. As we come down to the last few days of June, the court still has eight more opinions to go, on topics ranging… Read More

On Monday, the Supreme Court issued three more opinions in argued cases, resolving cases involving the NCAA and antitrust law, securities law and the Constitution’s appointments clause. As we come down to the last week in June, the court still has 12 more opinions to go, on topics ranging from voting rights to whether schools… Read More

On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued three opinions in argued cases, resolving some of the oldest – and highest-profile – cases on its 2020-2021 docket. With less than two weeks to go before the justices’ summer recess, the court still has 15 more opinions to go, on topics ranging from voting rights to whether schools… Read More