United States Supreme Court - April 2018 Opinion Summaries

Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group

Patent, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property
Upholding the constitutionality of the inter partes review of the patentability of existing patents because patens fall within the public-rights...

Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC

Injury & Tort Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, International Law, Civil Procedure
Affirming the dismissal of Alien Tort Statute complaints filed by the victims of terrorist attacks against a Jordanian bank with a New York branch...

Wilson v. Sellers

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Affirming the denial of a federal habeas petition filed by a death row inmate alleging ineffectiveness of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment...

US v. Microsoft Corporation

Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, International Law, Cyberspace Law
Declaring a writ of certiorari petition moot in the case of Microsoft's attempt to avoid providing emails pursuant to a Government warrant...

Sessions v. Dimaya

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, Constitutional Law
Affirming the judgment that a conviction for first-degree burglary is not a crime of violence under the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal...

Kisela v. Hughes

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
Granting a petition for certiorari and reversing the judgment of the Court of Appeals that the shooting of a knife-wielding woman was a violation of...

Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
Reversing and remanding a case involving the question of whether service advisors were salesmen whose employment escaped the Fair Labor Standards Act...