This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 587 of the United States Reports :
| Case name | Docket no. | Date decided |
|---|---|---|
| Republic of Sudan v. Harrison | 16–1094 | March 26,2019 |
| Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, civil complaints and summons must be served directly to the foreign minister's office in the minister's home country, not to their home country's embassy within the United States. | ||
| Sturgeon v. Frost II | 17–949 | March 26,2019 |
| The ANILCA defines navigable waters in Alaska as "non-public" lands and that they are exempt from the National Park Service's national regulations. | ||
| Lorenzo v. SEC | 17–1077 | March 27,2019 |
| A defendant can be held civilly liable by the SEC for participating in a securities fraud scheme by distributing false statements, even if those statements were written by another person. | ||
| Biestek v. Berryhill | 17–1184 | April 1,2019 |
| A vocational expert's refusal to provide private market-survey data upon the applicant's request does not categorically preclude the testimony from counting as "substantial evidence." | ||
| Bucklew v. Precythe | 17–8151 | April 1,2019 |
| Baze v. Rees and Glossip v. Gross govern all Eighth Amendment challenges alleging that a method of execution inflicts unconstitutionally cruel pain. The specific as-applied challenge to the Eighth Amendment (that lethal injection would cause extreme pain due to a rare medical condition) did not meet these previous tests. | ||
| Emulex Corp. v. Varjabedian | 18–459 | April 23,2019 |
| Dismissed as improvidently granted. | ||
| Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela | 17–988 | April 24,2019 |
| Class arbitration procedures could not be compelled based on ambiguous language in the arbitration agreement. | ||
| Thacker v. TVA | 17–1201 | April 29,2019 |
| The waiver of immunity in the TVA's sue-and-be-sued clause is not subject to a discretionary function exception of the kind in the Federal Tort Claims Act. | ||
| Franchise Tax Bd. v. Hyatt | 17–1299 | May 13,2019 |
| States have sovereign immunity from private suits against them in courts of other states without their consent. | ||
| Cochise Consultancy, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Hunt | 18–315 | May 13,2019 |
| The limitations period for qui tam lawsuits does not change when the Government intervenes in the lawsuit. | ||
| Apple Inc. v. Pepper | 17–204 | May 13,2019 |
| Under Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois , the iPhone owners were direct purchasers who may sue Apple for alleged monopolization. | ||
| Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Albrecht | 17–290 | May 20,2019 |
| Whether a state-law failure-to-warn claim was pre-empted in light of "clear evidence" that the FDA would not have approved a change to a drug's label is a question of law to be decided by a judge. | ||
| Herrera v. Wyoming | 17–532 | May 20,2019 |
| Wyoming's statehood did not void the Crow Tribe's right to hunt on "unoccupied lands of the United States" under an 1868 treaty, and that the Bighorn National Forest did not automatically become "occupied" when the forest was created. | ||
| Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC | 17–1657 | May 20,2019 |
| A debtor's rejection of an executory contract under Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code has the same effect as a breach of that contract outside bankruptcy. Such an act cannot rescind rights that the contract previously granted. | ||
| Nieves v. Bartlett | 17–1174 | May 28,2019 |
| Probable cause generally defeats a retaliatory arrest claim, except for when officers under the circumstances would typically exercise their discretion not to make an arrest. | ||
| Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson | 17–1471 | May 28,2019 |
| Federal law does not authorize the removal of a case to federal court by a third-party counterclaim defendant, even where the counterclaim is a class action. | ||
| Smith v. Berryhill | 17–1606 | May 28,2019 |
| A Social Security Administration Appeals Council dismissal on timeliness grounds after a claimant has had an ALJ hearing on the merits is a final decision subject to judicial review. | ||
| Box v. Planned Parenthood | 18–483 | May 28,2019 |
| Overturned the stay on the fetal disposition clause, arguing that how the fetus is disposed has no impact on a woman's rights to an abortion. | ||
| Mont v. United States | 17–8995 | June 3,2019 |
| Whether a term of supervised release for one offense is paused by imprisonment for another offense within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. §3624(e). | ||
| Fort Bend Cnty. v. Davis | 18–525 | June 3,2019 |
| The charge-filing precondition to suit set out in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is not a jurisdictional requirement. | ||
| Taggart v. Lorenzen | 18–489 | June 3,2019 |
| A court may hold a creditor in civil contempt for violating a discharge order if there is no fair ground of doubt as to whether the order barred the creditor’s conduct. | ||
| Azar v. Allina Health Services | 17–1484 | June 3,2019 |
| Because the government has not identified a lawful excuse for neglecting its statutory notice-and-comment obligations, its policy must be vacated. | ||
| Parker Drilling Management Serv. v. Newton | 18–389 | June 10,2019 |
| State laws can be "applicable and not inconsistent" with federal law under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act only if federal law does not address the relevant issue. | ||
| Return Mail Inc. v. United States Postal Service | 17–1594 | June 10,2019 |
| The government is not a "person" capable of instituting the three AIA review proceedings. | ||
| Quarles v. United States | 17–778 | June 10,2019 |
| When deciding whether a state law is broader than a crime within the scope of the Armed Career Criminals Act, the state law’s "exact definition or label" does not control. So long as the state law in question substantially corresponds to (or is narrower than) that crime, the conviction qualifies. | ||
| Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill | 18–281 | June 17,2019 |
| The Virginia House of Delegates lacks standing to file this appeal, either representing the state’s interests or in its own right. | ||
| Gamble v. United States | 17–646 | June 17,2019 |
| The court declined to overturn the separate sovereigns doctrine, concluding that historical precedent has held that it is a part of the Fifth Amendment. | ||
| Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren | 16–1275 | June 17,2019 |
| The Atomic Energy Act does not preempt Virginia's moratorium on uranium mining | ||
| Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck | 17–1702 | June 17,2019 |
| A public access station was not considered a state actor for purposes of evaluating free speech issues. | ||