This page addresses some of the questions about orders and opinion announcements that we have commonly received during our live blogs. ORDERS. Question: What do you mean by orders? Answer: When we talk about orders or the order list, we are usually referring to the actions that the court took at its most recent conference, which are reflected in a document (the order list) that the court ...

This election explainer was written by Amy Howe.It is part of SCOTUSblog’s 2020 Election Litigation Tracker, a joint project with Election Law at Ohio State.. When the losing side in a case decided by a federal court of appeals (or a state’s highest court) wants the Supreme Court to weigh in, it files a brief (known as a “petition for certiorari” or a “cert petition”) asking the ...

Issues: (1) Whether Congress violated the nondelegation doctrine by authorizing the Federal Communications Commission to determine, within the limits set forth in 47 U.S.C. § 254, the amount that providers must contribute to the Universal Service Fund; (2) whether the FCC violated the nondelegation doctrine by using the financial projections of the private company appointed as the fund's ...

Issues: (1) Whether the Hobbs Act, which authorizes a “party aggrieved” by an agency’s “final order” to petition for review in a court of appeals, allows nonparties to obtain review of claims asserting that an agency order exceeds the agency’s statutory authority; and (2) whether the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of …

2023年11月7日 · Holding: When an individual has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another, that individual may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment.. Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 8-1, in an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts on June 21, 2024.Justice Sotomayor filed a concurring opinion, in …

Issues: (1) Whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempts state laws that regulate pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) by preventing them from cutting off rural patients’ access, steering patients to PBM-favored pharmacies, excluding pharmacies willing to accept their terms from preferred networks, and overriding state discipline of pharmacists; and (2) whether Medicare Part D ...

2025年1月29日 · SCOTUS NEWS Supreme Court will weigh in on effort to found nation’s first religious charter school. By Amy Howe on Jan. 24 at 5:49 p.m.. On Friday afternoon, the justices agreed to consider a Catholic school’s effort to become the nation’s first religious charter school after the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected the move on the grounds that it would violate the Constitution by using ...

2024年11月5日 · Holding: The preponderance-of-the-evidence standard applies when an employer seeks to demonstrate that an employee is exempt from the minimum-wage and overtime-pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.. Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 9-0, in an opinion by Justice Kavanaugh on January 15, 2025.Justice Gorsuch filed a concurring opinion, in which Justice Thomas joined.

To help illustrate the terms and concepts you will often encounter in discussions of the Supreme Court, we have followed an imaginary Supreme Court case through the judicial process. Suppose that the plaintiff (Mr. Lyon) is suing the defendant (his …

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Chief Justice John Glover Roberts Jr. was born on January 27, 1955. He graduated from Harvard College in 1976, and Harvard Law School, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review, in 1979.