Contains all cases from 1900-01-08 to 2026-01-26
Berk v. Choy
2026-01-20
Court prevents Delaware’s law requiring expert affidavits in malpractice suits from being enforced in federal court, making it easier for patients to file and pursue negligence claims in federal court.
Ellingburg v. United States
2026-01-20
Court holds that mandatory federal restitution under the MVRA is criminal punishment, reversing the appeals court and allowing people sentenced under the law for pre‑1996 crimes to challenge restitution.
Howell v. Circuit Court of Indiana
2026-01-20
Court denies free filing request, dismisses petition, and bars an indigent incarcerated man from future noncriminal filings unless he pays the $300 fee and follows filing rules.
Barrett v. United States
2026-01-14
Federal gun-death ruling limits prosecutors: Court blocks separate convictions under two gun-death provisions and says one fatal firearm act can produce only one conviction, narrowing punishment in such cases.
Bost v. Illinois Bd. of Elections
2026-01-14
Decision lets candidates sue over state rules that count mail‑in ballots received after Election Day, finding candidates have standing and making it easier to challenge vote‑counting procedures.
Case v. Montana
2026-01-14
Court lets police enter homes without a warrant to provide emergency aid, ruling they need only an objectively reasonable belief of danger, affecting responses to people in mental‑health crises.
Bowe v. United States
2026-01-09
Court allows federal prisoners to seek Supreme Court review of appeals panels’ denials and rules the state habeas do-over bar does not apply to successive federal §2255 motions, widening appellate access for federal inmates.
Trump v. Illinois
2025-12-23
Court denies Government’s emergency request, blocking deployment of 300 federalized Illinois National Guard members and leaving a lower-court ban on Guard deployment to protect federal immigration officers in Illinois.
Doe v. Dynamic Physical Therapy, LLC
2025-12-08
Court blocks Louisiana law shielding healthcare providers from lawsuits during public-health emergencies, reversing the state court and allowing federal claims to proceed against providers.
Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens
2025-12-04
Disputed Texas congressional map allowed for 2026 elections as Court grants a stay of a lower court’s block, keeping the map in place while appeals proceed and affecting Texas voters.
Pitts v. Mississippi
2025-11-24
Court reverses Mississippi decision allowing a mandatory courtroom screen for a four-year-old witness, holding a statute cannot replace an individualized finding that screening is necessary to protect the child’s testimony.
Beck v. United States
2025-11-24
Court denies review of a widow’s wrongful-death suit after her off-duty Air Force husband was killed by a government driver, leaving in place the rule that blocks many military-related tort claims.
Hutson v. United States
2025-11-17
Declined review leaves lower-court order requiring New Orleans to build a jail for inmates with mental-health needs in place, keeping city and taxpayers responsible while legal questions remain unresolved.
Veneno v. United States
2025-11-10
Court declines to reconsider the 1886 Kagama rule, denying review and leaving broad federal power over Native American tribes' internal affairs unchanged, despite a justice’s dissent urging correction.
Trump v. Orr
2025-11-06
Court grants Government’s emergency stay allowing new passports to list sex assigned at birth, pausing a lower court’s order and affecting transgender people seeking new passports.
Boyd v. Hamm
2025-10-24
Court denies stay and refuses review, allowing Alabama to proceed with a nitrogen-gas execution despite dissenters’ warnings about minutes of conscious suffocation and violent convulsions.
Crawford v. Mississippi
2025-10-15
Court denies a pause and refuses review of a death-row inmate’s claim that his lawyers wrongly conceded his guilt, leaving his execution scheduled tonight while questions about trial lawyer authority remain unresolved.
Thomas v. Humboldt Cty.
2025-10-14
A challenge over whether the Seventh Amendment applies to state civil cases is denied review, leaving varied state jury protections intact while a Justice urges the Court to revisit the old ruling.
Lee v. Poudre School Dist. R–1
2025-10-14
Court declines to hear parents’ challenge to school gender-transition policies, leaving the lower-court ruling in place and keeping current school notice and support practices unchanged for now.
Humphreys v. Emmons
2025-10-14
Denial of review leaves a death sentence in place despite a juror’s alleged lies during selection and coercive behavior, while questions about procedural review rules and juror-impeachment limits remain unresolved.