List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 590

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This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 590 of the United States Reports :

Note: As of July 2025, final bound volumes for the U.S. Supreme Court's United States Reports have been published through volume 582 (June 2017). Newer cases from subsequent future volumes do not yet have official page numbers and typically use three underscores in place of the page number; e.g., Example v. United States, 700 U.S. ___ (2050).
Case nameDocket 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
  1. The Risk Corridors statute created a Government obligation to pay insurers the full amount set out in §1342’s formula
  2. Congress did not impliedly repeal the obligation through its appropriations riders.
  3. 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.

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