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Snyder v. United States (June 26, 2024)

The case involves James Snyder, the former mayor of Portage, Indiana, who was convicted of accepting an illegal gratuity in violation of 18 U.S.C. §666(a)(1)(B). In 2013, while Snyder was mayor, Portage awarded two contracts to a local truck company, Great Lakes Peterbilt, and purchased five trash t...

Murthy v. Missouri (June 26, 2024)

The case involves two states and five individual social media users who sued several federal officials and agencies, alleging that the government pressured social media platforms to censor their speech in violation of the First Amendment. The plaintiffs' speech was related to COVID-19 and the 2020 e...

Smith v. Arizona (June 21, 2024)

When an expert testifying at a criminal trial conveys an absent analyst’s statements in support of the expert’s opinion, and the statements provide that support only if true, the statements come into evidence for their truth.

Texas v. New Mexico (June 21, 2024)

States were not allowed to enter a consent decree that would dispose of the federal government's claims under the Rio Grande Compact without its consent.

Department of State v. Munoz (June 21, 2024)

A citizen does not have a fundamental liberty interest in their noncitizen spouse being admitted to the country.

United States v. Rahimi (June 21, 2024)

An individual found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another person may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment.

Erlinger v. United States (June 21, 2024)

The Fifth and Sixth Amendments require a unanimous jury to make the determination beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant’s past offenses were committed on separate occasions for the purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act.

Gonzalez v. Trevino (June 20, 2024)

Plaintiffs do not need to produce specific comparator evidence to demonstrate that they fall within the Nieves exception in retaliatory arrest cases.

Diaz v. United States (June 20, 2024)

An expert’s conclusion that most people in a group have a particular mental state is not an opinion about a particular defendant and thus does not violate Federal Rule of Evidence 704(b).

Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon (June 20, 2024)

When a government official brings multiple charges, only one of which lacks probable cause, the valid charges do not insulate the official from a Fourth Amendment malicious-prosecution claim relating to the invalid charge.

Moore v. United States (June 20, 2024)

Congress may attribute an entity’s realized and undistributed income to the entity’s shareholders or partners, and then tax the shareholders or partners on their portions of that income.