| Case name |
Docket no. |
Date decided |
|---|
| Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian |
17–1498 |
April 20, 2020 |
| Landowners are "potentially responsible parties" under CERCLA and therefore need approval from the EPA before taking any action to restore their properties related to a Superfund site. |
| Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP |
18–916 |
April 20, 2020 |
| Ramos v. Louisiana |
18–5924 |
April 20, 2020 |
| The Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial—as incorporated against the States by way of the Fourteenth Amendment—requires a unanimous verdict to convict a defendant of a serious offense. |
| County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund |
18–260 |
April 23, 2020 |
| The statutory provisions at issue require a permit when there is a direct discharge from a point source into navigable waters or when there is the functional equivalent of a direct discharge. |
| Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc. |
18–1233 |
April 23, 2020 |
| A plaintiff in a trademark infringement suit is not required to show that a defendant willfully infringed the plaintiff’s trademark as a precondition to a profits award. |
| Barton v. Barr |
18–725 |
April 23, 2020 |
| The court held that for purposes of cancellation-of-removal eligibility, a §1182(a)(2) offense committed during the initial seven years of residence makes a noncitizen ineligible for relief under the §1229b(d)(1)(B) stop time rule. |
| Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. |
18–1150 |
April 27, 2020 |
| Legal annotations that are created by legislatures are ineligible for copyright. |
| Maine Community Health Options v. United States |
18–1023 |
April 27, 2020 |
- The Risk Corridors statute created a Government obligation to pay insurers the full amount set out in §1342’s formula
- Congress did not impliedly repeal the obligation through its appropriations riders.
- Petitioners properly relied on the Tucker Act to sue for damages in the Court of Federal Claims.
|
| New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of New York |
18–280 |
April 27, 2020 |
| United States v. Sineneng-Smith |
19–67 |
May 7, 2020 |
| A federal appeals court abuses its discretion when it goes beyond the questions and issues presented by a party. |
| Kelly v. United States |
18–1059 |
May 7, 2020 |
| Because the scheme here did not aim to obtain money or property, Baroni and Kelly could not have violated the federal-program fraud or wire fraud laws. |
| Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. |
18–1086 |
May 14, 2020 |
| Lucky Brand is not barred by res judicata or preclusion to raise a defense that could have been brought up in previous litigation due to the two cases not sharing common operative facts. |
| Opati v. Republic of Sudan |
17–1268 |
May 18, 2020 |
| Plaintiffs in a federal cause of action under Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act §1605A(c) may seek punitive damages for preenactment conduct. |
| GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC |
18–1048 |
June 1, 2020 |
| The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards does not conflict with domestic equitable estoppel doctrines that permit the enforcement of arbitration agreements by nonsignatories to those agreements. |
| Financial Oversight and Management Bd. for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC |
18–1334 |
June 1, 2020 |
| All officers of the United States are subject to the Appointments Clause regardless of duty station. However, officers exercising primary local power are not officers "of the United States" and are not subject to the Appointments Clause. |
| Banister v. Davis |
18–6943 |
June 1, 2020 |
| A Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e) motion to alter or amend a habeas court’s judgment is not a second or successive habeas petition under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. |
| Thole v. U. S. Bank N. A. |
17–1712 |
June 1, 2020 |
| Participants in a defined-benefit retirement plan who are guaranteed a fixed payment each month regardless of the plan’s value or its fiduciaries' investment decisions lack Article III standing to bring a lawsuit against the fiduciaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. |
| Nasrallah v. Barr |
18–1432 |
June 1, 2020 |
| Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez |
18–8369 |
June 8, 2020 |
| In regards to prisoners filing to proceed in forma pauperis, cases dismissed without prejudice for failure to state a claim count as "strikes" in the "three strike system" under 28 U.S.C § 1915(g), which bars prisoners from requesting waiver of fees after three cases of frivolous nature or if they fail to state a claim. |
| United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Assn. |
18–1584 |
June 15, 2020 |
| Because the Department of the Interior’s decision to assign responsibility over the Appalachian Trail to the National Park Service did not transform the land over which the Trail passes into land within the National Park System, the Forest Service had the authority to issue the special use permit. |
| Bostock v. Clayton County |
17–1618 |
June 15, 2020 |
| An employer who fires an individual based on their sexual orientation or gender identity violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
| Andrus v. Texas |
18–9674 |
June 15, 2020 |
| The defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel were inappropriately dismissed, as the state court failed to address the prejudice prong of the Strickland v. Washington test. |