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30 August 2018

United States Supreme Court holds a warrant is required to obtain cell phone location data; holds it has appellate jurisdiction over the courts martial system and rejects a challenge to court martial conviction based on dual office holding by a military appellate judge; rejects a double jeopardy challenge to a felon in possession conviction; rejects antitrust challenge to credit card antisteering provisions; rejects most of a challenge to Texas redistricting plan; rejects challenge to entry ban on certain countries; holds certain crisis pregnancy center disclosures violated the centers’ free speech rights; remands water rights dispute between Georgia and Florida for further proceedings; and overrules precedent to hold compulsory nonmember union fair share fees for public employees are unconstitutional.


by William Gaskill

29 June 2016

The United States Supreme Court strikes down Texas restrictions on abortion doctors; upholds University of Texas’ race conscious admission plan; reminds federal agencies they must explain why they change their views on a statute they enforce; rejects suppression of evidence when an officer discovers there is an arrest warrant out for a person they have illegally stopped; holds decision to initiate review of a patent is not judicially reviewable; rejects extraterritorial private RICO cause of action; holds robbing a marijuana dealer is per se violation the Hobbs Act; concludes violations of Iowa’s burglary statute are not violent felonies for career criminal purposes; approves warrantless breath tests DUI cases; narrowly construes the public corrupt statute and holds reckless domestic violence misdemeanor convictions trigger a lifetime ban on possessing firearms.


by William Gaskill

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