United States Supreme Court - Opinion Summaries

Fort Bend County v. Davis

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Held that Title VII's charge-filing requirement is not jurisdictional and thus is subject to forfeiture if tardily asserted. The issue involved...

Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido

Labor & Employment Law, Government Law, Civil Rights
Held that state and local government entities are covered by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act regardless of their size. In an age...

Sause v. Bauer

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Reversed and remanded. Plaintiff alleges that when police officers visited her apartment in response to a noise complaint, they engaged in strange and...

Abbott v. Perez

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections
Reversed in Part, affirmed in part and cases remanded. In this gerrymandering case, the US Supreme Court found that the Texas court erred in...

Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Reversing the Colorado Civil Rights Commission's decision compelling the creation of cakes by a devout Christian baker for same sex couples and...

Murphy v. Smith

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Attorney's Fees
Affirming the Seventh Circuit's determination that the district court's order that the prevailing petitioner in a federal civil rights suit must pay...

Pavan v. Smith

Civil Rights, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a case relating to same-sex marriage, Arkansas state officials refused to issue birth certificates listing the spouse when a mother in a same-sex...

Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer

Government Benefits, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a case where a preschool and daycare center operated by a church sought a state grant for playground renovations and were denied because of a state...

Hernandez v. Mesa

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a case arising from an incident in which a US Border Patrol officer standing in the United States shot and killed a Mexican national standing in...

Ziglar v. Abbasi

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a putative class action against two classes of federal officials brought by men of Arab or South Asian descent who, following the September 11...