Decided Cases
12 decisions • Sorted by decision date
United States v. Skrmetti
The Court upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors, ruling that the law does not discriminate based on sex under the Equal Protection Clause. The majority found that because the law applies equally to all minors regardless of their biological sex, it does not trigger heightened constitutional scrutiny.
Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services
The Court ruled that members of historically majority groups (such as straight or white employees) do not face a higher bar when bringing workplace discrimination claims under Title VII. Marlean Ames, a heterosexual woman, claimed she was demoted and denied a transfer in favor of gay employees at the Ohio Department of Youth Services.
San Francisco v. EPA
The Court ruled that the EPA's water discharge permits must give cities specific, numeric limits on pollution levels rather than broad, generic requirements. San Francisco had challenged its wastewater permit, arguing the EPA's narrative requirements were too vague to comply with.
TikTok Inc. v. Garland
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal law requiring TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the popular social media platform or face a ban in the United States. Congress passed the law citing national security concerns that the Chinese government could access American users' data or manipulate the app's content.
FDA v. Wages and White Lion Investments
The Court upheld the FDA's authority to deny marketing authorization for flavored e-cigarette products. E-cigarette companies had argued the FDA acted arbitrarily when it denied their applications to sell flavored vaping products. The Fifth Circuit had agreed with the companies.
Moody v. NetChoice, LLC
The Court sent back two major cases about whether states can force social media platforms to carry content they want to remove. Texas and Florida had passed laws restricting how platforms like Facebook and YouTube moderate posts. The tech industry argued these laws violate the First Amendment.
Trump v. United States
In a landmark ruling, the Court held that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts taken while in office. The decision created a framework: presidents have absolute immunity for actions within their core constitutional powers, presumptive immunity for other official acts, and no immunity for unofficial acts.
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
In one of the most consequential decisions in decades, the Supreme Court overturned the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine. Under Chevron, courts had deferred to federal agencies' interpretations of ambiguous laws. Now, courts must use their own independent judgment when interpreting statutes, rather than automatically deferring to the government's reading.
Fischer v. United States
The Court narrowed the reach of a federal obstruction law that prosecutors used to charge many January 6th defendants. The law makes it a crime to obstruct an 'official proceeding,' and the government used it against people who disrupted the certification of the 2020 election results.
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
The Court ruled that cities can enforce laws against camping on public property, even when homeless people have nowhere else to go. Grants Pass, Oregon had fined homeless residents for sleeping outside. The Ninth Circuit had said this violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
SEC v. Jarkesy
The Court ruled that people accused of securities fraud by the SEC have a right to a jury trial in federal court, rather than being tried by an administrative law judge within the agency. The Seventh Amendment guarantees the right to a jury in certain cases, and the Court found this protection applies to SEC enforcement actions seeking financial penalties.
Trump v. Anderson
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states cannot remove presidential candidates from the ballot under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. Colorado had tried to keep former President Trump off the primary ballot, arguing he engaged in insurrection on January 6th. The Court said only Congress, not individual states, has the power to enforce this provision against federal officeholders.