Because per curiam decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless otherwise noted.
589 U.S. ___ Decided November 25, 2019. Ninth Circuit vacated and remanded to reexamine whether Alaska's political contribution limits were consistent with the Supreme Court's First Amendment case law.
Vacated and remanded to reexamine whether Alaska's political contribution limits were consistent with the Supreme Court's First Amendment case law.
Ginsburg filed a statement.
Retirement Plans Comm. of IBM v. Jander
Full caption:
Retirement Plans Committee of IBM et al v. Larry W. Jander et al
Citations:
589 U.S. ___
Prior history:
Motion to dismiss granted, Jander v. Ret. Plans Comm. of IBM, 272 F. Supp. 3d444 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); reversed, 910 F.3d620 (2d Cir. 2018); cert. granted, 139 S. Ct. 2667 (2019).
589 U.S. ___ Argued November 6, 2019. Decided January 14, 2020. Second Circuit vacated and remanded for consideration of arguments made for the first time in the Supreme Court briefing.
Kagan filed a concurrence, joined by Ginsburg. Gorsuch filed a concurrence.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan v. Acevedo Feliciano
Full caption:
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico v. Yali Acevedo Feliciano, et al.
589 U.S. 57 Decided February 24, 2020. A Puerto Rico trial court has no jurisdiction to issue payment and seizure orders after a pension benefits proceeding is removed to federal district court and before the proceeding is remanded back to the Puerto Rico court.
Supreme Court of Puerto Rico vacated and remanded.
589 U.S. ___ Decided March 23, 2020. Fifth Circuit vacated and remanded.
The text of Rule of Appellate Procedure 52(b) does not immunize factual errors from plain-error review, nor does Supreme Court precedent. There is no legal basis for the Fifth Circuit's practice of declining to review certain unpreserved factual arguments for plain error.[2]
Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee
589 U.S. ___ Decided April 6, 2020. Application for stay granted.
Stay granted of order by District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, disallowing extension of the mail-in date for absentee ballots for the state's primary elections.
Ginsburg filed a dissent, joined by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan.
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of New York
590 U.S. ___ Argued December 2, 2019. Decided April 27, 2020. The Court determined the case had been rendered moot due to changes in the underlying law in question during its consideration at the Supreme Court.
Second Circuit vacated and remanded.
Kavanaugh filed a concurrence. Alito filed a dissent, joined by Gorsuch, and by Thomas in part.
Andrus v. Texas
Full caption:
Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas
Citations:
590 U.S. ___
Prior history:
Report and recommendation to grant petition in part; denied, sub nom. Ex parte Andrus, No. WR-84,438–01 (Tex. Crim. App. Feb. 13, 2019)
590 U.S. ___ Decided June 15, 2020. The Court held that 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 test.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas vacated and remanded.
Alito filed a dissent, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch.
Barr v. Lee
Full caption:
William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. v. Daniel Lewis Lee, et al.
Citations:
591 U.S. ___
Prior history:
Preliminary injunction granted, No. 19-145, D.D.C., July 13, 2020
591 U.S. ___ Decided July 14, 2020. District Court for the District Court of Columbia vacated.
Vacated a preliminary injunction delaying the execution of four federal prisoners. The plaintiffs did not establish that they were likely to succeed on the merits of their challenge to the use of pentobarbital in executions under the Eighth Amendment.
Breyer filed a dissent, joined by Ginsburg. Sotomayor filed a dissent, joined by Ginsburg and Kagan.
↑The descriptions of two opinions have been omitted:
In Colorado Dept. of State v. Baca, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), the Court reversed the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit's judgment for the reasons stated in Chiafalo v. Washington, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), which was handed down the same day. Thomas concurred in the judgment without separate opinion. Sotomayor did not participate.
In Sharp v. Murphy, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), the Court affirmed the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit's judgment for the reasons stated in McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), which was handed down the same day. Thomas and Alito dissented without separate opinion. Gorsuch did not participate.
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