This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 597 of the United States Reports :
| Case name | Docket no. | Date decided |
|---|---|---|
| New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen | 20–843 | June 23,2022 |
| The Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual's right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home. New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment in that it prevents law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms in public for self-defense. | ||
| Vega v. Tekoh | 21–499 | June 23,2022 |
| A Miranda violation does not provide a basis for a Section 1983 claim. | ||
| Nance v. Ward | 21–439 | June 23,2022 |
| Section 1983 remains an appropriate vehicle for a prisoner's method-of-execution claim where, as here, the prisoner proposes an alternative method not authorized by the State’s death-penalty statute. | ||
| Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP | 21–248 | June 23,2022 |
| North Carolina legislative leaders are entitled to intervene in a federal constitutional challenge to the state's new voter identification law. | ||
| Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization | 19–1392 | June 24,2022 |
| The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed. | ||
| Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, For Valley Hospital Medical Center | 20–1312 | June 24,2022 |
| In calculating the Medicare fraction, individuals entitled to Medicare Part A benefits are all those qualifying for the program, regardless of whether they receive Medicare payments for part or all of a hospital stay. | ||
| Ruan v. United States | 20–1410 | June 27,2022 |
| Section 841’s "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea applies to the statute's "except as authorized" clause. Once a defendant meets the burden of producing evidence that his or her conduct was "authorized," the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knowingly or intentionally acted in an unauthorized manner. | ||
| Concepcion v. United States | 20–1650 | June 27,2022 |
| Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 132 Stat. 5222, allows district courts to consider intervening changes of law or fact in exercising their discretion to reduce a sentence. | ||
| Kennedy v. Bremerton School District | 21–418 | June 27,2022 |
| The Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment protect an individual engaging in a personal religious observance from government reprisal; the Constitution neither mandates nor permits the government to suppress such religious expression. | ||
| Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety | 20–603 | June 29,2022 |
| State sovereign immunity does not prevent states from being sued under federal law related to the nation's defense. | ||
| Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta | 21–429 | June 29,2022 |
| The Federal Government and the State have concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed by non-Indians against Indians in Indian country. | ||
| West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency | 20–1530 | June 30,2022 |
| Congress did not grant the Environmental Protection Agency in Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act the authority to devise emissions caps based on the generation shifting approach the Agency took in the Clean Power Plan. | ||
| Biden v. Texas | 21–954 | June 30,2022 |
| The Government's rescission of the Migrant Protection Protocols did not violate section 1225 of the INA, and the October 29 Memoranda constituted final agency action. | ||