Showing 1–50 of 75 items published in April 2025, most recent first.
Another day at the Supreme Court and, suitable for the way this term has gone, another case that pretty clearly does not belong before the court. The justices granted review in Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis to decide whether a district court can certify a class action that includes claimants who in fact have not suffered any cognizable injury.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over a Catholic virtual charter school’s bid to become the country’s first religious charter school. With Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused from the case, the outcome appeared to hinge on the vote of Chief Justice John Roberts, who asked probing questions of both sides but did not make his position clear.
Another day in our modern Supreme Court on Tuesday, as the argument in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools was consumed less by discussion of substantive legal questions and more by debate about whether and to what extent the parties may have sandbagged the justices by changing their positions during the course of briefing.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning was sympathetic to the victims of a “wrong house” raid in 2017, with several justices expressing surprise at the federal government’s efforts to contend that the actions of FBI agents were shielded from liability because their acts were discretionary.
The court will issue one or more opinions again this morning at 10 a.m. EDT. Join us for the live blog. The justices will then hear oral argument in a major dispute over attempts to open the nation’s first religious charter school.
On Wednesday, April 30, we were live as the court released its opinion in Feliciano v. Department Of Transportation. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled for the federal government in its dispute with a group of more than 200 hospitals over the formula used to identify and compensate hospitals that serve a large number of lower-income patients.
We’re expecting one or more opinions from the court this morning at 10 a.m. EDT. Join us for the live blog. The court will then hear oral argument in Martin v. U.S., the case of an Atlanta couple whose home was mistakenly raided by an FBI SWAT team.
On Tuesday, April 29, we were live as the court released its opinion in Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Kennedy. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements.
The argument on Tuesday in Laboratory Corp. of America v. Davis presents another in a remarkable string of cases this year that have reached the argument stage without clearly presenting the question on which the justices granted review.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a Catholic virtual charter school’s bid to become the nation’s first religious charter school.
The Supreme Court on Monday added one new case, involving procedural issues that arose in a lawsuit claiming that an organic baby food caused a child’s case of autism spectrum disorder, to its docket for the 2025-26 term.
The court will hear oral argument in two cases this morning. The justices will hear A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, a dispute over the standard for awarding damages when a school district fails to provide an adequate education to a child with a disability.
Monday’s argument in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools is the latest in a long series of Supreme Court cases involving the statutory rights Congress has granted to schoolchildren with disabilities.
Four days after hearing oral arguments in a challenge to the constitutionality of a task force within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Supreme Court asked both the federal government and the challengers to file new briefs discussing the HHS secretary’s power to appoint members of the task force.
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court made short work of two of last week’s first-time relists.
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, asking the justices to allow it to enforce a 2025 Department of Defense policy prohibiting individuals who are transgender from serving in the U.S. military.
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:
Dear SCOTUSblog readers, As one era ends, an exciting new one begins. SCOTUSblog is delighted to announce that it has been acquired by Dispatch Media, Inc., and will round out The Dispatch’s coverage of the Supreme Court and the rule of law.
The court this morning is considering Diamond Alternative Energy LLC v. EPA, a dispute brought by fuel producers over California’s waiver from federal preemption for vehicle-emission standards, typically requiring lower emissions in the state, under the Clean Air Act.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday was sympathetic to a group of Maryland parents who want to be able to opt their elementary-school-aged children out of instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes.
On Tuesday, April 22, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about […]
We’re expecting one or more opinions from the Supreme Court this morning at 10 a.m. EDT. Join us for the live blog and on TikTok. Following the opinion announcements, the court will hear oral arguments in two case.
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared to side with the federal government in a dispute over the constitutionality of the structure of a task force within the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Supreme Court on Monday morning added one new case, involving a Texas woman’s claim against the U.S. Postal Service, to its docket for the 2025-26 term. The announcement came as part of a list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Thursday, April 17.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in the first of two cases in April involving religion and public schools. In Mahmoud v. Taylor a coalition of parents from Montgomery County, Md., contend that requiring their children to participate in instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes violates their religious beliefs and thus their First Amendment right to freely exercise their religion.
The Supreme Court kicks off the final argument of the 2024-25 term today with arguments in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management and Parrish v. U.S. Read Amy Howe on Braidwood, a dispute over a group’s objection to the HHS task force that determines which preventive services, such as the HIV prevention drugs known as PrEP, must be covered by the Affordable Care Act.
This article was updated on April 20 at 6:36 a.m. Over a dissent by two of the court’s conservative justices, the Supreme Court temporarily barred the Trump administration from removing a group of Venezuelan men currently in immigration custody in the northern region of Texas under an 18th century wartime law.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Monday in yet another dispute over the separation of powers. The case is a challenge to the constitutionality of the structure of a relatively obscure section of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.
Cunningham v. Cornell University will not go into the history books as one of the most important 30 decisions of the 2024-25 term. The case involves a technical problem about pleading standards under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the court’s resolution of the problem was, in a word, technical.
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. Two new cases were granted on Monday from the rolls of relisted cases.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on May 15 on the federal government’s request to be allowed to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship – the guarantee of citizenship to almost everyone born in the United States, which dates back to the post-Civil War era.
We are expecting one or more opinions from the court this morning. Join us for the live blog and on TikTok at 9:45 a.m. EDT. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court.
We were live as the court released its opinion in Cunningham v. Cornell University.Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements.
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
In the two-and-a-half months since Donald Trump’s inauguration, a rush of challenges to executive orders and directives have made their way through the courts and have now started to reach the justices in earnest.
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court on Thursday evening largely left in place an order by a federal judge in Maryland directing the government to return to the United States a Maryland man who is currently being held in a maximum-security prison in El Salvador as a result of what the Trump administration concedes
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers (Mark Sherman, The Associated Press) Was the supreme court’s deportation ruling a win for Trump or immigrants?
Calling the situation “untenable,” the Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon, asking the justices to block orders by federal judges in Washington, D.C., that instructed government officials to allow board members at two independent agencies to remain in office despite President Donald Trump’s attempts to fire them.