United States Supreme Court - June 2017 Opinion Summaries

California Public Employees’ Retirement System v. ANZ Securities, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Securities Law
In a case where members of a securities class-action opted out of a settlement and filed an untimely claim of their own, it was held that the timely...

Davila v. Davis

Legal Malpractice, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case involving a capital punishment trial and subsequent appeal where the convicted alleged the ineffective assistance of appeal counsel in...

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...

Trump. v. International Refugee Assistance Project

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Immigration Law
In the case of the challenge to the Trump administration's travel ban and the associated injunction, the court granted certiorari and consolidation of...

Lee v. US

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In a criminal case in which defendant was advised by counsel to plead guilty to possessing ecstasy with intent to distribute, an 'aggravated felony'...

Murr v. Wisconsin

Property Law & Real Estate
In a case in which landowners characterized the merger of adjacent lots and a prohibition against their separate sale as a regulatory taking that...

Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Bd.

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Government Law
In a case concerning the judicial review of Merit Systems Review Board (MSRB) dismissals of mixed claims for jurisdictional grounds, the court held...

Weaver v. Massachusetts

Legal Malpractice, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a murder case where a courtroom could not accommodate all the potential jurors, members of the public were excluded from the courtroom, including...