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Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions

Lindke v. Freed (March 15, 2024)

When a government official posts about job-related topics on social media, this speech is attributable to the government only if the official possessed actual authority to speak on the government's behalf and purported to exercise that authority when they spoke on social media.

O'Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier (March 15, 2024)

The Supreme Court sent a 42 U.S.C. ยง1983 case back to the Ninth Circuit with instructions to follow an approach that the Supreme Court developed in a companion case.

Pulsifer v. United States (March 15, 2024)

The safety valve provision that exempts certain defendants from mandatory minimum penalties for federal crimes requires a defendant to meet all three elements of its criminal history criterion.

Trump v. Anderson (March 4, 2024)

The Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment against federal officeholders and candidates.

Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co. (February 21, 2024)

Choice-of-law provisions in maritime contracts that designate the law of a particular jurisdiction to control future disputes are presumptively enforceable, with narrow exceptions.

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John G. Roberts, Jr.
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