United States Supreme Court - June 2014 Opinion Summaries

Harris v. Quinn

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Under Illinois' Home Services Program (Rehabilitation Program), which allows Medicaid recipients who would normally need institutional care to hire a...

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) does not permit the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to demand that...

NLRB v. Noel Canning

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a challenge to an order of the National Labor Relations Board, claiming that the Board lacked a quorum because three of the five Board members had...

McCullen v. Coakley

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
Massachusetts' Reproductive Health Care Facilities Act, which makes it a crime to knowingly stand on a public way or sidewalk within 35 feet of an...

Riley v. California

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
The police generally may not, without a warrant, search digital information on a cell phone seized from an individual who has been arrested....

Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer

Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law, Constitutional Law, ERISA
In an action in which plaintiffs allege that defendants breached the fiduciary duty of prudence imposed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo, Inc.

Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals' holding that defendant does not infringe plaintiffs' copyrights by selling its subscribers a technologically...

Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
Dismissal of an action challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) promulgation of greenhouse-gas emission standards for new motor...

Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc.

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
In a putative class action against defendant-company and one of its executives, alleging that they made misrepresentations designed to inflate...

Loughrin v. US

Banking Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant's conviction for violating the federal bank fraud state, 18 U.S.C. section 1344(2), which makes it a crime to knowingly execute a scheme to...