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Food and Drug Administration v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. (June 20, 2025)

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA) mandates that manufacturers must obtain approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before marketing any new tobacco product. In 2016, the FDA classified e-cigarettes as new tobacco products under the TCA. R. J. Reynolds Vapor Co....

McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corp. (June 20, 2025)

McKesson Corporation sent unsolicited fax advertisements to medical practices, including McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, in 2009 and 2010. McLaughlin sued McKesson in 2014 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection...

Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency (June 20, 2025)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved California regulations under the Clean Air Act that require automakers to produce more electric vehicles and fewer gasoline-powered vehicles to reduce emissions. Several fuel producers, including those of gasoline and ethanol, sued the EPA, arguing...

Esteras v. United States (June 20, 2025)

Edgardo Esteras pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin and was sentenced to 12 months in prison followed by a 6-year term of supervised release. After completing his prison term, Esteras was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill the mother of his children and firing shots into her ve...

Stanley v. City of Stanford (June 20, 2025)

The Americans With Disabilities Act does not reach discrimination against retirees who neither hold nor desire a job whose essential tasks they can perform with reasonable accommodation.

Fuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization (June 20, 2025)

The Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act reasonably ties the assertion of federal jurisdiction over the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority to conduct that involves the United States and implicates sensitive foreign policy matters within the prerogative of the political branches.

Oklahoma v. Environmental Protection Agency (June 18, 2025)

EPA disapprovals of state emissions-control plans under the Clean Air Act were locally or regionally applicable actions and were not based on determinations of nationwide scope or effect, so challenges to them should be heard in a regional circuit.

Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C. (June 18, 2025)

EPA denials of small refinery exemption petitions under the Clean Air Act renewable fuel program were locally or regionally applicable actions, but they were based on determinations of nationwide scope or effect, so they should be heard in the D.C. Circuit.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas (June 18, 2025)

Only a license applicant or a party that successfully intervened in the licensing proceeding may obtain judicial review of a licensing decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Perttu v. Richards (June 18, 2025)

Parties are entitled to a jury trial on Prison Litigation Reform Act exhaustion when that issue is intertwined with the merits of a claim protected by the Seventh Amendment.

United States v. Skrmetti (June 18, 2025)

A Tennessee law banning certain medical care for transgender minors did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, since it was not subject to heightened scrutiny and satisfied rational basis review.

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Current U.S. Supreme Court
John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Clarence Thomas
Associate Justice
Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
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Sonia Sotomayor
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Elena Kagan
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Neil M. Gorsuch
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Brett M. Kavanaugh
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Amy Coney Barrett
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Ketanji Brown Jackson
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