The Nine kicked off the week with four new decisions, though only three came with signed opinions. In Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute (No. 16-980), the Court held (5-4) that Ohio’s “use it or lose it” practice of cancelling the voter registrations of individuals who fail to vote for two years and fail to respond to an address-verification does not violate the National Voter
Read More Orders: June 11, 2018
Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Right Commission (16-111), Hughes v. United States (17-155), Koon v. United States (17-5716), Lamar Archer & Cofrin v. Appling (16-1215)
As we reported earlier in the week, The Nine handed down one of the most hotly anticipated decisions of the term on Monday, and boy did it deliver! Wait. Sorry, strike that. It turns out the 7-2 decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Right Commission (No. 16-111), mostly delivered a lesson in how to avoid difficult questions when you regret granting cert and
Read More Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Right Commission (16-111), Hughes v. United States (17-155), Koon v. United States (17-5716), Lamar Archer & Cofrin v. Appling (16-1215)Orders: June 4, 2018
The Nine were back in action this morning, as they will be every Monday from here on out (and probably a number or other days besides). There were four new decisions announced today, including what was expected to be one of the blockbusters of the terms, but ended up being more of a punt: In Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Comm’n (No. 16-111),
Read More Orders: June 4, 2018
Collins v. Virginia (16-1027), Lagos v. United States (16-1519)
As we continue to await the dropping of the other shoe (filled with 29 pending cases), let’s kick two more out of the way.
First up, in Collins v. Virginia (16-1027), The Nine resolved a clash of two well-established Fourth Amendment principles: the so-called automobile exception to the warrant requirement, which allows police to search a vehicle without a warrant as long as they
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Orders: May 29, 2018
We were expecting an avalanche of decisions today, but instead we got a mere flurry. In Collins v. Virginia (No. 16-1027), the Court held (8-1) that the automobile exception to the warrant requirement does not permit the warrantless entry of a home or its curtilage in order to search a vehicle stored therein; and in Lagos v. United States (No. 16-1519), the Court
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Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis (16-285), Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Lundgren (17-387)
We’re back with summaries of this week’s two decisions—a truly epic employment decision and a maybe-slightly-less-than-epic Indian law decision—both authored by Justice Gorsuch.
Employers scored a big win in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis (No. 16-285), where the Court held that the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) does not trump the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) and thus, employment contracts can require individual arbitration of
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