October Term 2025

68 opinions

• West Virginia v. B. P. J.
  2026-06-30 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026)
  6–3 — Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissenting
• National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n
  2026-06-30 · 609 U. S. ____ (2026)
  6–3 — Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson dissenting
• Trump v. Barbara
  2026-06-30 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026) · Affirmed
  5–3 — Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito dissenting

  Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause.

• Watson v. Republican National Committee
  2026-06-29 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026)
  5-4 — Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh dissenting

  The federal Election-Day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days thereafter; nothing in the federal Election-Day statutes requires ballots to be received by Election Day.

• Chatrie v. United States
  2026-06-29 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026)
  6-3 — Alito, Thomas, Barrett dissenting

  Police officers conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they acquired Okello Chatrie’s location data from Google because an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cellphone location information.

• Trump v. Cook
  2026-06-29 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026)
  5-4 — Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett dissenting

  The government’s application to stay the district court’s order preliminarily enjoining the purported firing of Federal Reserve System Governor Lisa Cook pending the conclusion of litigation over her attempted removal is denied.

• Trump v. Slaughter
  2026-06-29 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026) · Reversed and remanded
  5–3 — Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissenting
• Monsanto v. Durnell
  2026-06-25 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026)
  7–2 — Jackson, Gorsuch dissenting
• Mullin v. Doe
  2026-06-25 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026) · Reversed and remanded
  1–3 — Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson dissenting
• Mullin v. Al Otro Lado
  2026-06-25 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026)
  6–3 — Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissenting
• Wolford v. Lopez
  2026-06-25 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026)
  6-3 — Kagan, Jackson, Sotomayor dissenting

  Hawaii’s law prohibiting licensed concealed-carry permit holders from carrying handguns on private property open to the public without the property owner’s express authorization violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.

• Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe
  2026-06-23 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026)
  Unanimous
• Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación Cimex, S. A. (Cuba)
  2026-06-23 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026)
  6–3 — Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson dissenting
• Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections and Public Safety
  2026-06-23 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026)
  6–3 — Jackson, Sotomayor, Kagan dissenting
• Pung v. Isabella County
  2026-06-23 · 609 U. S. ____ (2026) · Vacated and remanded
  Unanimous
• Blanche v. Lau
  2026-06-23 · 609 U. S. ___ (2026)
  6–3 — Jackson, Sotomayor, Kagan dissenting
• McCarthy v. Hernandez
  2026-06-22 · 608 U. S. ____ (2026)
  6-3 — dissenting

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit exceeded its authority in holding that Pedro Hernandez is entitled to habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1); no clearly established federal law required the trial court to instruct the jury about the rule that Justice Kennedy adopted in Missouri v. Seibert , and the 2nd Circuit erred in holding otherwise.

• United States v. Hemani
  2026-06-18 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026) · Affirmed
  9-0

  Prosecution of Ali Hemani under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) — for knowingly possessing a gun in his home while being an unlawful user of a controlled substance — is inconsistent with the Second Amendment.

• Hunter v. United States
  2026-06-18 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026) · Vacated and remanded
  8–1 — Thomas dissenting
• T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation
  2026-06-18 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  5–4 — Barrett, Roberts, Kagan, Gorsuch dissenting
• Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, Inc.
  2026-06-11 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026) · Vacated and remanded
  9-0

  To determine whether an omission of a claim in the bankruptcy context was inadvertent or mistaken for purposes of the judicial estoppel doctrine, courts should look to the totality of the circumstances surrounding the omission; the the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit erred in narrowing its inquiry in this case to whether the debtor had knowledge of the underlying facts or a potential motive to conceal the claim.

• FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd.
  2026-06-11 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026) · Reversed and remanded
  6-3 — Kagan, Jackson, Sotomayor dissenting

  Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act does not impliedly empower private parties to sue for rescission of contracts that allegedly violate the act.

• Abouammo v. United States
  2026-06-11 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  9-0

  A defendant charged with knowingly falsifying a document with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1519 must be tried in the district where the falsification occurred; the defendant cannot be tried in a different district where the investigation was located because no “conduct constituting the offense” happened there.

• Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc.
  2026-06-04 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  9-0

  Amarin has failed to state a claim for actively inducing infringement of its brand-name drug’s patented uses, so its complaint cannot withstand Hikma’s motion to dismiss.

• Sripetch v. SEC
  2026-06-04 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  Unanimous
• FCC v. AT&T
  2026-06-04 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  8–1 — Thomas dissenting
• Allen v. Milligan
  2026-06-02 · 608 U. S. ____ (2026)
  0–3 — Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissenting
• Whitton v. Dixon
  2026-06-01 · 608 U. S. ____ (2026)
  7-2 — Thomas, Alito dissenting

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit erred in considering post-trial DNA evidence when assessing whether the Florida Supreme Court reasonably determined that jailhouse informant Jake Ozio’s testimony was immaterial to the jury’s verdict, because evidence not presented to the jury could not have influenced the jury’s verdict and therefore sheds no light on whether Ozio’s testimony influenced that verdict.

• Rutherford v. United States
  2026-05-28 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  6-3 — Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissenting

  When Congress declines to make a sentencing amendment retroactive, the resulting sentencing disparity cannot serve as an “extraordinary and compelling” reason that warrants a sentence reduction under §3582(c)(1)(A)(i) .

• Fernandez v. United States
  2026-05-28 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  8-1 — Jackson dissenting

  A prisoner who collaterally attacks the validity of his conviction must proceed through 28 U.S.C. § 2255 , not 18 U.S.C. §3582 ; the supposed invalidity of a conviction is not among the “extraordinary and compelling reasons” that justify compassionate release.

• Pitchford v. Cain
  2026-05-28 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  5-4 — Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito, Barrett dissenting

  In Terry Pitchford’s direct appeal of a capital murder sentence, the Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably applied the clearly established precedents of Batson v. Kentucky to determine that Pitchford waived his opportunity to rebut the prosecutor’s asserted race-neutral reasons for the peremptory strikes of four black prospective jurors.

• Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock
  2026-05-28 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  Unanimous
• Margolin v. NAIJ
  2026-05-26 · 608 U. S. ____ (2026)
  Unanimous
• Hamm v. Smith
  2026-05-21 · 608 U. S. ____ (2026)
  2–4 — Thomas, Alito, Roberts, Gorsuch dissenting
• M & K Employee Solutions, Inc. v. Trustees of IAM Nat. Pension
  2026-05-21 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  Unanimous
• Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd.
  2026-05-21 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  8–1 — Kagan dissenting
• Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC
  2026-05-14 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  9-0

  A claim that one company negligently hired another to transport goods is not preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act because states retain authority to regulate safety “with respect to motor vehicles” under the act.

• Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties
  2026-05-14 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026) · Affirmed
  9-0

  A federal court that has previously stayed claims in a pending action under Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act has jurisdiction to confirm or vacate a resulting arbitral award on those claims as prescribed in Sections 9 and 10 of the act.

• First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport
  2026-04-29 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026) · Reversed and remanded
  Unanimous
• Louisiana v. Callais
  2026-04-29 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  6–3 — Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson dissenting
• Enbridge Energy, LP v. Nessel
  2026-04-22 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  9-0

  Because 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(1) ’s text, structure, and context are inconsistent with equitable tolling, Enbridge’s removal of the case to federal court outside the statute’s 30-day deadline was untimely.

• Hencely v. Fluor Corp.
  2026-04-22 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  6–3 — Alito, Roberts, Kavanaugh dissenting
• District of Columbia v. R.W.
  2026-04-20 · 608 U. S. ____ (2026)
  7-2 — Jackson dissenting

  Because the officer in this case clearly had reasonable suspicion to stop R.W., the judgment of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is reversed, and the case is remanded.

• Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish
  2026-04-17 · 608 U. S. ___ (2026)
  Unanimous
• Chiles v. Salazar
  2026-03-31 · 607 U. S. ___ (2026)
  8-1 — Jackson dissenting

  Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy, as applied to Kaley Chiles’ talk therapy, regulates speech based on viewpoint, and the lower courts erred by failing to apply sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.

• Rico v. United States
  2026-03-25 · 607 U. S. ___ (2026) · Reversed and remanded
  8-1 — Alito dissenting

  The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 does not authorize a rule automatically extending a defendant’s term of supervised release when the defendant fails to report to a probation officer.

• Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment
  2026-03-25 · 607 U. S. ___ (2026)
  9-0

  Internet service provider Cox Communications neither induced its users’ infringement of copyrighted works nor provided a service tailored to infringement, and accordingly Cox is not contributorily liable for the infringement of Sony’s copyrights.

• Zorn v. Linton
  2026-03-23 · 607 U. S. ____ (2026)
  6-3 — Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissenting

  Because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit failed to identify a case where an officer using a routine wristlock on a protester after issuing a verbal warning, without more, was held to have violated the Constitution, Sergeant Jacob Zorn was entitled to qualified immunity; the 2nd Circuit’s contrary conclusion was erroneous.

• Olivier v. City of Brandon
  2026-03-20 · 607 U. S. 552 (2026) · Reversed and remanded
  Unanimous
• Urias-Orellana v. Bondi
  2026-03-04 · 607 U. S. 537 (2026)
  Unanimous
• Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corp.
  2026-03-04 · 607 U. S. 509 (2026)
  Unanimous
• Mirabelli v. Bonta
  2026-03-02 · 607 U. S. 492 (2026)
  3–2 — Kagan, Jackson dissenting
• Villarreal v. Texas
  2026-02-25 · 607 U. S. 465 (2026)
  9-0

  A trial court’s qualified conferral order that prohibits only discussion of the defendant’s testimony for its own sake during a mid-testimony overnight recess permissibly balances the defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel against the burden of offering unaltered trial testimony and does not violate the Constitution.

• Geo Group, Inc. v. Menocal
  2026-02-25 · 607 U. S. 438 (2026)
  Unanimous
• Hain Celestial Group, Inc. v. Palmquist
  2026-02-24 · 607 U. S. 421 (2026)
  Unanimous
• Postal Service v. Konan
  2026-02-24 · 607 U. S. 391 (2026)
  5–3 — Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissenting
• Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump
  2026-02-20 · 607 U. S. 229 (2026)
  6-3 — Thomas, Kavanaugh, Alito dissenting

  The International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the President to impose tariffs.

• Klein v. Martin
  2026-01-26 · 607 U. S. 213 (2026)
  8-1 — dissenting

  Because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit affirmed the award of a new trial based on reasoning that departed from the strict standards that govern the grant of federal habeas relief to prisoners convicted in state court prescribed by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, the court grants the state’s petition for a writ of certiorari and reverses the judgment below.

• Berk v. Choy
  2026-01-20 · 607 U. S. 187 (2026) · Reversed and remanded
  9-0

  Delaware law requiring a plaintiff suing for medical malpractice to provide an affidavit from a medical professional attesting to the suit’s merit conflicts with a valid Federal Rule of Civil Procedure and does not apply in federal court.

• Ellingburg v. United States
  2026-01-20 · 607 U. S.163 (2026)
  9-0

  Restitution under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996 is criminal punishment for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause.

• Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Burton
  2026-01-20 · 607 U. S. 155 (2026)
  9-0

  The reasonable-time limit in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(c)(1) applies to a motion alleging that a judgment is void under Rule 60(b)(4).

• Barrett v. United States
  2026-01-14 · 607 U. S. 128 (2026)
  Unanimous
• Case v. Montana
  2026-01-14 · 607 U. S. 107 (2026)
  9-0

  Under the standard set in Brigham City v. Stuart , the Fourth Amendment allows police officers to enter a home without a warrant if they have an “objectively reasonable basis for believing” that someone inside needs emergency assistance; that standard was met here.

• Bost v. Illinois Bd. of Elections
  2026-01-14 · 607 U. S. 71 (2026)
  5–3 — Jackson, Sotomayor, Barrett dissenting
• Bowe v. United States
  2026-01-09 · 607 U. S. 13 (2026) · Vacated and remanded
  5-4 — Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito, Barrett dissenting

  Title 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) does not bar the Supreme Court’s review of a federal prisoner’s request to file a second or successive Section 2255 motion for postconviction relief, and Subsection 2244(b)(1) does not apply to second or successive motions filed under Section 2255(h) by federal prisoners challenging their convictions or sentences.

• Doe v. Dynamic Physical Therapy, LLC
  2025-12-08
  9-0

  Because a state lacks the power to confer immunity from federal causes of action, the Louisiana Court of Appeal’s judgment that a plaintiff’s federal claims are barred by a Louisiana statute immunizing health care providers from civil liability during public health emergencies is reversed.

• Clark v. Sweeney
  2025-11-24 · 607 U. S. 7 (2025)
  9-0

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit departed from the principle of party presentation and abused its discretion in granting a new trial.

• Pitts v. Mississippi
  2025-11-24 · 607 U. S. 1 (2025)
  9-0

  A defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to meet his accusers face to face may not be denied without case-specific findings of necessity, notwithstanding Mississippi’s right-to-screening statute.