Term recap
October Term 2019 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 2019, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
The term's first merits decision came down November 25, 2019 and the last on July 9, 2020. The busiest single day was March 23, 2020 with 5 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
November 2019 · 1 decision
December 2019 · 2 decisions
January 2020 · 2 decisions
February 2020 · 8 decisions
March 2020 · 7 decisions
April 2020 · 11 decisions
- Kansas v. Glover
- Babb v. Wilkie
- Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP
- Ramos v. Louisiana
- Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian
- Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc.
- County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund
- Barton v. Barr
- New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. City of New York
- Maine Community Health Options v. United States
- Georgia v. Public Resource.Org, Inc.
May 2020 · 4 decisions
June 2020 · 17 decisions
- Thole v. U. S. Bank N. A.
- Nasrallah v. Barr
- Ge Energy Power Conversion Fr. Sas, Corp. v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC
- Banister v. Davis
- Financial Oversight and Management Bd. for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC
- Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez
- United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Assn.
- Bostock v. Clayton County
- Andrus v. Texas
- Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of Univ. of Cal.
- Liu v. SEC. & Exch. Comm'n
- Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam
- June Medical Services L. L. C. v. Russo
- Agency for Int'l Development v. Alliance for Open Society
- Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V.
- Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue
July 2020 · 9 decisions
📜 Cert-stage statements
Statements by individual Justices respecting or dissenting from the grant or denial of certiorari, not decisions of the Court.
- Lipschultz v. Charter Advanced Servs. (MN), LLC
- Rhines v. Young
- Peithman v. United States
- Isom v. Arkansas
- National Review, Inc. v. Mann
- Paul v. United States
- Barr v. Roane
- Cottier v. United States
- Schexnayder v. Vannoy
- McKeever v. Barr
- Department of Homeland Security v. New York
- Wolf v. Cook County
- Arizona v. California
- Baldwin v. United States
- Patterson v. Walgreen Co.
- Reed v. Texas
- Guedes v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
- Avery v. United States
- VF Jeanswear LP v. Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n
- Halprin v. Davis
- Archdiocese of Washington v. Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority
- Robinson v. Department of Education
- Valentine v. Collier
- Wexford Health v. Garrett
- South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom
- Jarchow v. State Bar of Wis.
- St. Hubert v. United States
- Rogers v. Grewal
- Baxter v. Bracey
- Kansas v. Boettger
- Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott
- Barr v. Purkey
- Raysor v. DeSantis
- Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Sisolak
- Little v. Reclaim Idaho
- Trump v. Sierra Club
- Barnes v. Ahlman
- Mitchell v. United States
⚡ Emergency applications
Rulings on emergency applications and single-Justice in-chambers opinions.
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