Volume 592
Docket Number: 19-199
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 3, 2021
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1992, Salinas began seeking disability benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act (RRA) based on serious injuries he suffered during his 15-year railroad career. He was granted benefits after his fourth application in ...
Docket Number: 19-351
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: February 3, 2021
Justia Opinion Summary: German Jewish art dealers owned a collection of medieval relics. Their heirs allege that the Nazi government unlawfully coerced the consortium into selling the collection to Prussia for a third of its value. The relics are ...
Docket Number: 19-963
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 25, 2021
Docket Number: 19-357
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: January 14, 2021
Justia Opinion Summary: The debtors each filed a bankruptcy petition and requested that the city return his vehicle, which had been impounded for failure to pay fines. The filing of a bankruptcy petition automatically “creates an estate,” 11 ...
Docket Number: 20-366
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 18, 2020
Justia Opinion Summary: Every 10 years, the U.S. undertakes an “Enumeration” of its population “in such Manner” as Congress “shall by Law direct.” The Secretary of Commerce must “take a decennial census of population . . . in such ...
Docket Number: 19-1302
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 14, 2020
Justia Opinion Summary: Kayer murdered Haas in 1994. Kayer was convicted of premeditated first-degree murder, refused to fully cooperate with a mitigation specialist, and refused to agree to a continuance. The court ruled him competent to make that ...
Docket Number: 18-540
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 10, 2020
Justia Opinion Summary: Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) reimburse pharmacies for the cost of drugs covered by prescription-drug plans by administering maximum allowable cost (MAC) lists. In 2015, Arkansas passed Act 900, which requires PBMs to ...
Docket Number: 19-108
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 10, 2020
Justia Opinion Summary: Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), a military offense, “punishable by death, may be tried and punished at any time without limitation,” 10 U.S.C. 843(a). Other military offenses are subject to a five-year ...
Docket Number: 19-309
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 10, 2020
Justia Opinion Summary: Delaware’s Constitution contains a political balance requirement for appointments to the state’s major courts. No more than a bare majority of judges on any of its five major courts “shall be of the same political party.” ...
Docket Number: 19-71
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: December 10, 2020
Justia Opinion Summary: The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) provides a remedy to redress federal government violations of the right to free exercise under the First Amendment. Practicing Muslims sued under RFRA, claiming that federal ...
Docket Number: 20A87
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: November 25, 2020
Justia Opinion Summary: A New York Executive Order imposed restrictions on attendance at religious services. In "red zones," no more than 10 persons could attend each religious service; in "orange zones," attendance was capped at 25. In challenges ...
Docket Number: 19-1108
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: November 2, 2020
Justia Opinion Summary: Mckesson organized a demonstration in Baton Rouge to protest a shooting by a police officer. The protesters, allegedly at Mckesson’s direction, occupied the highway in front of the police headquarters. As officers began ...
Docket Number: 19-1261
Court: US Supreme Court
Date: November 2, 2020
Justia Opinion Summary: Taylor, a Texas inmate, alleges that in September 2013, correctional officers confined him in a cell covered, nearly floor to ceiling, in “ ‘massive amounts’ of feces.” Taylor did not eat or drink for nearly four ...
