A group of Haitian citizens who are beneficiaries of a program that allows them to stay in the United States came to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking the justices to throw out a dispute over whether the Trump administration can end the program, known as Temporary Protected Status, for […]

When the Supreme Court says a precedent has been “abandoned,” the real work has already been done. That was the story of Lemon v. Kurtzman, decided in 1971. For decades, the court invoked, revised, sidestepped, and criticized Lemon’s approach to the establishment clause of the First Amendment. The formal reports still contained […]

As we await the usual late-June flurry of decisions – some of them quite significant – I wanted to reflect on what I believe to be the most extraordinary June in the modern Supreme Court, which took place four years ago in 2022. In decisions between June 21 and June […]

Reminder: We’ve got new merch! Celebrate your love of SCOTUSblog and Advisory Opinions with a new hat or shirt. At the Court On Monday, the court added three cases to its oral argument docket for next term and denied several notable petitions for review. For more on Monday’s order list, […]

A student group and a trade association came to the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon on its interim docket, asking the justices to restore orders by a federal judge in Austin, Texas, that bar the state from enforcing a law that imposes age-verification and parental-consent requirements on minors’ access to […]

The Supreme Court on Monday added three new cases, on issues ranging from hearings for noncitizens in immigration detention to the constitutionality of Florida’s six-person juries and the exceptions to the general rule on second petitions for federal post-conviction relief. The announcement came as part of a list of orders […]

Near the end of her career, Lilly Ledbetter received an anonymous note: she was being paid far less than every man doing the same job. Ledbetter was one of the first female supervisors at an Alabama Goodyear tire plant, working the 12-hour 7pm to 7am overnight shift for nearly 20 […]

We have reached the halfway point of June, meaning the justices have just over two weeks left to wrap up the current term if they want to begin their summer recess in early July. We are awaiting 20 more opinions in argued cases. At the Court Orders from the justices’ […]

Yesterday’s decision in Keathley v Buddy Ayers Construction squarely rejected a “rigid” rule adopted by the lower court to punish the failure of a debtor in bankruptcy to mention one of its assets to the court. The case involves a bankrupt debtor who failed to disclose to the bankruptcy court […]

In yesterday’s decision in FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v Saba Capital Master Fund, a sharply divided court rejected the efforts of investors to sue an investment company to rescind a contract that appears to violate the Investment Company Act of 1940, concluding that only the SEC may bring suit to […]