Term recap
October Term 2020 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 2020, 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 2, 2020 and the last on July 2, 2021. The busiest single day was December 10, 2020 with 4 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
November 2020 · 2 decisions
December 2020 · 7 decisions
January 2021 · 2 decisions
February 2021 · 4 decisions
March 2021 · 6 decisions
April 2021 · 9 decisions
May 2021 · 7 decisions
June 2021 · 25 decisions
- United States v. Cooley
- Garland v. Ming Dai
- Van Buren v. United States
- Sanchez v. Mayorkas
- Borden v. United States
- Terry v. United States
- Greer v. United States
- Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe
- Fulton v. Philadelphia
- California v. Texas
- United States v. Arthrex, Inc.
- National Collegiate Athletic Assn. v. Alston
- Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System
- Mahanoy Area School Dist. v. B. L.
- Lange v. California
- Collins v. Yellen
- Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid
- Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of Chehalis Reservation
- TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez
- HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Assn.
- Pakdel v. City and County of San Francisco
- Lombardo v. St. Louis
- PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey
- Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc.
- Johnson v. Guzman Chavez
📜 Cert-stage statements
Statements by individual Justices respecting or dissenting from the grant or denial of certiorari, not decisions of the Court.
- Kaur v. Maryland
- Henness v. DeWine
- Davis v. Ermold
- Andino v. Middleton
- FDA v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Malwarebytes, Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC
- Ross v. National Urban League
- Rogers County Board of Tax Roll Corrections v. Video Gaming Technologies, Inc.
- Bovat v. Vermont
- Merrill v. People First of Alabama
- Democratic National Committee v. Wisconsin State Legislature
- Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar
- Moore v. Circosta
- National Football League v. Ninth Inning, Inc.
- Valentine v. Collier
- Bernard v. United States
- Bourgeois v. Watson
- High Plains Harvest Church v. Polis
- Danville Christian Academy, Inc. v. Beshear
- Bruni v. City of Pittsburgh
- FDA v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- United States v. Higgs
- Francois v. Wilkinson
- Silver v. United States
- South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom
- Dunn v. Smith
- Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Degraffenreid
- Bridge Aina Le'a, LLC v. Hawaii Land Use Commission
- Thompson v. Lumpkin
- Smith v. Titus
- Massachusetts Lobstermen's Assn. v. Raimondo
- Longoria v. United States
- Small v. Memphis Gas, Light & Water
- Biden v. Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Univ.
- Whatley v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison
- Brown v. Polk County
- Texas v. California
- Doe v. United States
- Calvert v. Texas
- Johnson v. Precythe
- Sanders v. United States
- National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System
- Standing Akimbo, LLC v. United States
- Hernandez v. Peery
- Alabama Association of Realtors v. Department of Health and Human Services
- Mast v. Fillmore County
- Hoggard v. Rhodes
- Eychaner v. Chicago
- Berisha v. Lawson
- Chrysafis v. Marks
- Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson
⚡ Emergency applications
Rulings on emergency applications and single-Justice in-chambers opinions.
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