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Contains all cases from 1900-01-08 to 2026-06-04
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Court rejects brand‑maker’s inducement claim against a generic drug maker, making it harder for drug companies to sue generics over labels, websites, and press releases and protecting skinny‑labeled generics.
Ruling lets the SEC seek disgorgement without proving investors suffered financial loss, making it easier for regulators to recover fraudsters’ ill-gotten profits in securities cases.
Ruling allows the FCC to issue monetary forfeiture orders without jury trials, saying those orders do not conclusively force payment and affecting major phone companies over handling of customer location data.
Court stays a lower-court order and allows Alabama to use its 2023 congressional map, blocking a remedial map that would have created an additional Black-opportunity district and affecting upcoming elections.
A federal appeals ruling is affirmed: the Court blocked using compassionate release to challenge a criminal conviction, limiting early-release claims and requiring prisoners to use postconviction habeas procedures instead.
Sentence-change disparity from the First Step Act cannot be used for compassionate release; Court affirmed that nonretroactive law changes don't justify sentence reductions, limiting relief for prisoners with long pre-Act mandatory terms.
Court reverses lower rulings and finds a death-row defendant was wrongly denied a chance to challenge race-based juror strikes, ordering new proceedings that restore his opportunity to rebut the prosecutor’s reasons.
Court rules intrastate delivery workers who participate in broader interstate shipments can be exempt from forced arbitration, making it easier for local distributors and drivers to sue in court instead of being sent to arbitration.
Court denies Florida permission to sue California and Washington over issuing commercial driver’s licenses to non-English-speaking immigrants, blocking the interstate safety lawsuit and leaving licensing concerns unresolved.
Death‑penalty case about how to weigh multiple IQ tests is dismissed; the Court refused to set a national rule, leaving people facing execution and state courts to rely on existing approaches.
Court allows U.S. company to sue cruise lines for using docks seized by Cuba, holding that using confiscated physical docks can trigger liability and potential damages even if the company’s concession had expired.
Court allows negligent-hiring claims against freight brokers, ruling safety exception lets injured people sue brokers and making it easier for such lawsuits to proceed against brokers who hire unsafe carriers.
Court affirms that when a federal court stayed a lawsuit for arbitration, it may still confirm or vacate the arbitration award, allowing the same federal court to decide award disputes and affecting litigants who filed in federal court.
Order lets FDA’s 2023 rule allowing mail distribution of mifepristone remain in effect while appeals proceed, making it easier for people in states like Louisiana to receive the drug.
Court allows Texas to carry out a scheduled execution tonight, lifting a federal appeals court’s temporary stay despite evidence that the prisoner may be intellectually disabled.
Alabama redistricting: Court cancels lower court’s block on the 2023 congressional map and sends cases back to reconsider under the Court’s new Voting Rights Act interpretation, risking election confusion.
Court allows immediate release of judgment, shortening the usual 32-day wait and enabling Louisiana to pause a midstream primary while officials rush to redraw a congressional map found unconstitutional.
Louisiana’s new congressional map struck down as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander; Court says Voting Rights Act did not require a second majority‑Black district and limits race‑based districting.
Ruling allows a religious nonprofit to sue over a state subpoena for donor identities, reversing lower courts and enabling federal review that protects donor privacy and nonprofit associational freedom.
Court limits wartime preemption and allows an injured soldier’s state-law suit against a military contractor after a base suicide bombing, finding such tort claims are not automatically blocked when the military did not authorize the contractor’s actions.
