October Term 2022

58 opinions

• 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis
  2023-06-30 · 600 U. S. 570 (2023) · Reversed
  6-3 — Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissenting

  The First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees.

• Department of Education v. Brown
  2023-06-30 · 600 U. S. 551 (2023) · Vacated and remanded
  Unanimous
• Biden v. Nebraska
  2023-06-30 · 600 U. S. 477 (2023) · Reversed and remanded
  6–3 — Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson dissenting
• Groff v. DeJoy
  2023-06-29 · 600 U. S. 447 (2023)
  9-0

  Title VII requires an employer that denies a religious accommodation to show that the burden of granting an accommodation would result in substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct of its particular business.

• Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic Int’l, Inc.
  2023-06-29 · 600 U. S. 412 (2023)
  Unanimous
• Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
  2023-06-29 · 600 U. S. 181 (2023)
  6–3 — Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissenting
• Mallory v. Norfolk Southern R. Co
  2023-06-27 · 600 U. S. 122 (2023)
  2–3 — Barrett, Roberts, Kavanaugh dissenting
• Counterman v. Colorado
  2023-06-27 · 600 U. S. 66 (2023)
  7-2 — Thomas, Barrett dissenting

  To establish that a statement is a "true threat" unprotected by the First Amendment, the state must prove that the defendant had some subjective understanding of the statements' threatening nature, based on a showing no more demanding than recklessness.

• Moore v. Harper
  2023-06-27 · 600 U. S. 1 (2023)
  6–3 — Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito dissenting
• United States v. Hansen
  2023-06-23 · 599 U. S. 762 (2023)
  7-2 — Jackson, Sotomayor dissenting

  Title 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) , which criminalizes "encourag[ing] or induc[ing]" illegal immigration, forbids only the purposeful solicitation and facilitation of specific acts known to violate federal law and is not unconstitutionally overbroad.

• Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski
  2023-06-23 · 599 U. S. 736 (2023) · Reversed and remanded
  5-4 — Jackson, Sotomayor, Kagan, Thomas dissenting

  A district court must stay its proceedings while an interlocutory appeal taken pursuant to 9 U.S.C. § 16(a) on the question of arbitrability is ongoing.

• United States v. Texas
  2023-06-23 · 599 U. S. 670 (2023)
  4-4 — dissenting

  Judgment affirmed by an equally divided court.

• Samia v. United States
  2023-06-23 · 599 U. S. 635 (2023)
  6-3 — Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson dissenting

  The admission of a nontestifying codefendant's confession did not violate the Sixth Amendment's confrontation clause where the confession as modified did not directly inculpate the defendant but used the descriptor "other person" and the jury was instructed to consider the confession only as to the codefendant.

• Pugin v. Garland
  2023-06-22 · 599 U. S. 600 (2023)
  6-3 — Sotomayor, Gorsuch, Kagan dissenting

  An offense may "relate to" obstruction of justice under the Immigration and Nationality Act's definition of an "aggravated felony," 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(S) , even if the offense does not require that an investigation or proceeding be pending.

• Arizona v. Navajo Nation
  2023-06-22 · 599 U. S. 555 (2023)
  5-4 — Gorsuch, Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissenting

  The 1868 treaty establishing the Navajo Reservation reserved necessary water to accomplish the purpose of the Navajo Reservation but did not require the United States to take affirmative steps to secure water for the tribe.

• Yegiazaryan v. Smagin
  2023-06-22 · 599 U. S. 533 (2023)
  6-3 — Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch dissenting

  A plaintiff alleges a "domestic injury" as required by RJR Nabisco, Inc. v. European Community for filing a private civil suit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act when the circumstances surrounding the injury indicate it arose in the United States.

• Jones v. Hendrix
  2023-06-22 · 599 U. S. 465 (2023)
  6-3 — Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissenting

  The saving clause in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) does not allow a prisoner asserting an intervening change in the interpretation of a criminal statute to circumvent the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 's restrictions on second or successive Section 2255 motions by filing a habeas petition under Section 2241 .

• Lora v. United States
  2023-06-16 · 599 U. S. 453 (2023) · Vacated and remanded
  9-0

  The bar on imposition of concurrent sentences in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(D)(ii) does not apply to a sentence for a Section 924(j) conviction; a Section 924(j) sentence can run either concurrently with or consecutively to another sentence.

• United States ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, Inc.
  2023-06-16 · 599 U. S. 419 (2023)
  8-1 — Thomas dissenting

  In a qui tam action filed under the False Claims Act , the United States may move to dismiss under 31 U.S.C. § 3730(c)(2)(A) whenever it has intervened, whether during the seal period or later on; in assessing a motion to dismiss an FCA action over a relator's objection, district courts should apply the rule generally governing voluntary dismissal of suits in ordinary civil litigation, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a) .

• Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Coughlin
  2023-06-15 · 599 U. S. 382 (2023)
  8-1 — Gorsuch dissenting

  The Bankruptcy Code, under 11 U.S.C. § 106(a) , unequivocally abrogates the sovereign immunity of all governments, including federally recognized Indian tribes.

• Haaland v. Brackeen
  2023-06-15 · 599 U. S. 255 (2023)
  7-2 — Thomas, Alito dissenting

  In child custody proceedings governed by the Indian Child Welfare Act , the court affirms the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit's conclusion that ICWA is consistent with Congress's Article I authority, rejects petitioners' anticommandeering challenges under the Tenth Amendment, and finds the parties lack standing to litigate their other challenges to ICWA's placement preferences.

• Smith v. United States
  2023-06-15 · 599 U. S. 236 (2023)
  Unanimous
• Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion Cty. v. Talevski
  2023-06-08 · 599 U. S. 166 (2023)
  7–2 — Thomas, Alito dissenting
• Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC
  2023-06-08 · 599 U. S. 140 (2023)
  Unanimous
• Dubin v. United States
  2023-06-08 · 599 U. S. 110 (2023)
  9-0

  Under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1) 's crime of "aggravated identity theft," a defendant "uses" another person"s means of identification "in relation to" a predicate offense when the use is at the crux of what makes the conduct criminal.

• Allen v. Milligan
  2023-06-08 · 599 U. S. 1 (2023)
  0–4 — Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, Alito dissenting
• Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. Teamsters
  2023-06-01 · 598 U. S. 771 (2023)
  8–1 — Jackson dissenting
• Slack Technologies, LLC v. Pirani
  2023-06-01 · 598 U. S. 759 (2023)
  Unanimous
• United States ex rel. Schutte v. Supervalu Inc.
  2023-06-01 · 598 U. S. 739 (2023)
  Unanimous
• Dupree v. Younger
  2023-05-25 · 598 U. S. 729 (2023) · Vacated and remanded
  9-0

  A post-trial motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50 is not required to preserve for appellate review a purely legal issue resolved at summary judgment.

• Sackett v. EPA
  2023-05-25 · 598 U. S. 651 (2023)
  Unanimous
• Tyler v. Hennepin County
  2023-05-25 · 598 U. S. 631 (2023)
  Unanimous
• Calcutt v. FDIC
  2023-05-22 · 598 U. S. 623 (2023)
• Gonzalez v. Google LLC
  2023-05-18 · 598 U. S. 617 (2023)
  9-0

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit's judgment, which held that plaintiffs' complaint was barred by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, is vacated, and the case is remanded for reconsideration in light of the court's decision in Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh .

• Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi
  2023-05-18 · 598 U. S. 594 (2023)
  Unanimous
• Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith
  2023-05-18 · 598 U. S. 508 (2023)
  7–2 — Kagan, Roberts dissenting
• Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh
  2023-05-18 · 598 U. S. 471 (2023)
  9-0

  Plaintiffs' allegations that the social-media-company defendants aided and abetted ISIS in its terrorist attack on a nightclub in Instanbul, Turkey fail to state a claim under 18 U.S.C. § 2333(d)(2) .

• Ohio Adjutant General’s Dept. v. FLRA
  2023-05-18 · 598 U. S. 449 (2023)
  7–2 — Alito, Gorsuch dissenting
• Polselli v. IRS
  2023-05-18 · 598 U. S. 432 (2023)
  Unanimous
• Santos-Zacaria v. Garland
  2023-05-11 · 598 U. S. 411 (2023)
  9-0

  Title 8 U.S.C. 1252(d)(1) , which requires noncitizens to "exhaus[t] all administrative remedies ... as of right" before challenging a Board of Immigration Appeals final order of removal in federal court, is not a jurisdictional provision and does not require noncitizens to request discretionary forms of review.

• National Pork Producers Council v. Ross
  2023-05-11 · 598 U. S. 356 (2023)
  5-4 — dissenting

  The judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, affirming the dismissal of a complaint challenging California's Proposition 12 under a dormant commerce clause rationale not grounded in an allegation that the law purposefully discriminates against out-of-state economic interests, is affirmed.

• Financial Oversight and Management Bd. for P. R. v. Centro De Periodismo Investigativo, Inc.
  2023-05-11 · 598 U. S. 339 (2023)
  8–1 — Thomas dissenting
• Percoco v. United States
  2023-05-11 · 598 U. S. 319 (2023)
  9-0

  Jury instructions on the legal standard for finding that a private citizen owes the government a duty of honest services based on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit's decision in United States v. Margiotta were erroneous.

• Ciminelli v. United States
  2023-05-11 · 598 U. S. 306 (2023)
  9-0

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit's right-to-control theory, under which the government can establish federal wire fraud by showing that the defendant schemed to deprive a victim of potentially valuable economic information necessary to make discretionary economic decisions, cannot form the basis for a conviction under the federal fraud statutes because the right to control is not grounded in a traditional property interest.

• MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC
  2023-04-19 · 598 U. S. 288 (2023) · Vacated and remanded
  9-0

  Section 363(m) of the Bankruptcy Code , which restricts the effects of certain successful appeals of judicially authorized sales or leases of bankruptcy-estate property, is not a jurisdictional provision.

• Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States
  2023-04-19 · 598 U. S. 264 (2023)
  9-0

  The district court has jurisdiction of this criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 3231 , and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's comprehensive scheme governing claims of immunity in civil actions against foreign states and their instrumentalities does not cover criminal cases.

• Reed v. Goertz
  2023-04-19 · 598 U. S. 230 (2023)
  6-3 — Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch dissenting

  When a prisoner pursues state post-conviction DNA testing through the state-provided litigation process, the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 procedural due process claim begins to run when the state litigation ends, in this case when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Rodney Reed's motion for rehearing.

• New York v. New Jersey
  2023-04-18 · 598 U. S. 218 (2023)
  9-0

  Notwithstanding opposition by the state of New York, New Jersey may unilaterally withdraw from the 1953 Waterfront Commission Compact .

• Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC
  2023-04-14 · 598 U. S. 175 (2023)
  Unanimous
• Wilkins v. United States
  2023-03-28 · 598 U. S. 152 (2023)
  6-3 — Thomas, Roberts, Alito dissenting

  The Quiet Title Act's 12-year statute of limitations is a nonjurisdictional claims-processing rule.

• Luna Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools
  2023-03-21 · 598 U. S. 142 (2023)
  Unanimous
• Delaware v. Pennsylvania
  2023-02-28 · 598 U. S. 115 (2023)
• Bittner v. United States
  2023-02-28 · 598 U. S. 85 (2023)
  5-4 — Barrett, Thomas, Sotomayor, Kagan dissenting

  The Bank Secrecy Act's $10,000 maximum penalty for the nonwillful failure to file a compliant report accrues on a per-report, not a per-account, basis.

• Bartenwerfer v. Buckley
  2023-02-22 · 598 U. S. 69 (2023)
  9-0

  Pursuant to Section 523(a)(2)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code, a debtor like Kate Bartenwerfer who is liable for her partner's fraud cannot discharge that debt in bankruptcy, regardless of her own culpability.

• Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt
  2023-02-22 · 598 U. S. 39 (2023)
  6-3 — Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Alito dissenting

  Respondent Michael Hewitt was not an executive exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime pay guarantee; daily-rate workers, of whatever income level, qualify as paid on a salary basis only if the conditions set out in 29 C.F.R. § 541.604(b) are met.

• Cruz v. Arizona
  2023-02-22 · 598 U. S. 17 (2023)
  5-4 — Barrett, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch dissenting

  The Arizona Supreme Court's holding below, that Lynch v. Arizona did not represent a "significant change in the law" for purposes of permitting John Montenegro Cruz to file a successive petition for state postconviction relief under Arizona Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(g) , is not an adequate state-law ground supporting that judgment.

• In re Grand Jury
  2023-01-23

  Certiorari dismissed as improvidently granted.

• Arellano v. McDonough
  2023-01-23 · 598 U. S. 1 (2023)
  9-0

  The effective date of an award of service-related disability compensation to a veteran of the United States military determined pursuant to 38 U.S.C. § 5110(a)(1), (b)(1) is not subject to equitable tolling.