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Stay in the Know with SCOTUS Cases this 2019-2020 Term!

By Lauren Mattiuzzo
October 16, 2019

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Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States began hearing three separate cases which could determine whether LGBTQ people are protected in the workplace by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. As the term continues, SCOTUS will also hear cases regarding age discrimination, maritime law, abortions, the insanity defense, and much more. With Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases you can stay in the know with these upcoming cases!

About Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases

The American Bar Association’s Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases is a publication that provides comprehensive expert analysis of all cases granted certiorari before the Supreme Court prior to the arguments. Available exclusively in HeinOnline, a subscription to this online publication includes eight issues annually. Issues 1-7 summarize the Court’s seven argument sessions from October through April. Issue 8, which is published subsequent to the close of the Court’s term at the end of June, reviews the entire term using statistics, charts, essays, and case summaries.

Features of ABA Supreme Court Preview in HeinOnline

Since the American Bar Association’s Preview of the United States Supreme Court Cases has been added to HeinOnline, subscribers now have a substantial advantage when accessing this publication online. HeinOnline allows users the ability to view the most current issue and archives in a fully searchable database. All PDFs of the publication are available in full color.

Users can click on inline hyperlinks within documents to connect to other cited articles and cases in HeinOnline. The database also provides links to Amicus and Merit Briefs. Sign up for Electronic Table of Contents (eTOC) alerts to be notified when new issues are added. Easily browse or search cases by Docket #, Term, Case Name, Subject, and much more using the custom case locator.

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For more information about searching and browsing the Preview database, check out the LibGuide!

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Using Preview in the Classroom

Preview is a great resource to use in your classroom to make sure your students are up to date with current events that affect the nation. Each month, the American Bar Association features a current case before the Court along with a modified case study and focus questions for classroom use. Users can access these ready-to-use resources through the American Bar Association. These resources include:

Background on the Legal Issue: Each case study provides key definitions relating to the case, as well as the case at a glance and the facts of the case.
Argument Summaries: The issue that is brought before the court is defined and includes argument summaries from both sides of the case.
Focus Questions: Insight focus questions are provided to promote and provoke dialogue regarding different aspects of the case.

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Upcoming Cases for the 2019-2020 Term

Wondering what cases will be argued in front of the Supreme Court this upcoming term? See below for a brief overview.

Allen v. Cooper

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act validly abrogates state sovereign immunity to allow authors of original expression to sue states who infringe their federal copyrights.

Altitude Express v. Zarda

A case in which the Court will decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits against employment discrimination “because of . . . sex,” encompasses discrimination based on an individual’s sexual orientation.

Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association

A case in which the Court will decide whether the U.S. Forest Service has the authority to grant rights-of-way under the Mineral Leasing Act through lands traversed by the Appalachian Trail within national forests.

Banister v. Davis

A case in which the Court will decide whether and under what circumstances a timely Rule 59(e) motion to “amend or alter” the Court’s judgment should be recharacterized as a second or successive habeas petition under Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 U.S. 524 (2005).

Barton v. Barr

A case in which the Court will decide whether a lawfully admitted permanent resident who is not seeking admission to the United States can be “render[ed] . . . inadmissible” for the purposes of the stop-time rule, 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(d)(1).

CITGO Asphalt Refining Co. V. Frescati Shipping Co.

A case in which the Court will resolve a circuit split as to whether under federal maritime law a safe-berth clause in a voyage charter contract is a guarantee of a ship’s safety (as the Second Circuit and Third Circuit held) or a duty of due diligence (as the Fifth Circuit held).

Comcast Corp. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media

A case in which the Court will decide whether a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 is a showing of but-for causation or only that race is a motivating factor.

County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Clean Water Act requires a permit when pollutants originate from a point source but are conveyed to navigable waters by a nonpoint source, such as groundwater.

Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California

A case in which the Court will decide (1) whether the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy is judicially reviewable; and (2) whether DHS’s decision to wind down the DACA policy is lawful.

Dex Media Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP

A case in which the Court will decide whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) permits appeal of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision to institute an inter partes review upon finding that 35 U.S.C. § 315(b)’s time bar did not apply.

Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue

A case in which the Court will decide whether a state law that provides funding for education but excludes religious education options violates the Religion Clauses or the Equal Protection Clause of the Federal Constitution.

Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC

A group of cases in which the Court will decide the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s appointments (without their being confirmed by the Senate) to the oversight board created to help Puerto Rico recover from its substantial indebtedness.

GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards permits a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement to compel arbitration based on the doctrine of equitable estoppel.

Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the government edict doctrine extends to—and thus renders uncopyrightable—the annotations in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated.

Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr

A case in which the Court will decide whether a request for equitable tolling, as it applies to statutory motions to reopen, is judicially reviewable as a “question of law” or instead is unreviewable as a “question of fact.”

Hernandez v. Mesa

A case in which the Court will decide whether, when plaintiffs plausibly allege that a rogue federal law enforcement officer violated clearly established Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights for which there is no alternative legal remedy, the federal courts can and should recognize a claim of damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971).

Holguin-Hernandez v. United States

A case in which the Court will decide whether a criminal defendant must make a formal objection after the pronouncement of the sentence to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of the sentence.

Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee v. Sulyma

A case in which the Court will decide whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1113(2)—which runs from “the earliest date on which the plaintiff had actual knowledge of the breach or violation”—bars suit if the defendants disclosed to the plaintiff all relevant information more than three years before the plaintiff filed the complaint, but the plaintiff chose not to read or could not recall having read the information.

June Medical Services LLC v. Gee

A case in which the Court will decide whether the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upholding Louisiana’s law requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital conflicts with the Court’s binding precedent in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.

Kahler v. Kansas

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments allow a state to abolish the insanity defense.

Kansas v. Garcia

A case in which the Court will decide (1) whether the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) expressly preempts states from using information provided on a federal Form I-9 in a prosecution of any person when the same information also appears in non-IRCA documents; and (2) whether the Act impliedly preempts Kansas’s prosecution of the respondents in this case.

Kansas v. Glover

A case in which the Court will decide whether, for purposes of an investigative stop under the Fourth Amendment, it is reasonable for an officer to suspect that the registered owner of a vehicle is the one driving the vehicle absent any information to the contrary.

Kelly v. United States

A case in which the Court will decide whether a public official “defraud[s]” the government of its property by advancing a “public policy reason” for an official decision that is not her subjective “real reason” for making the decision.

Lucky Brand Dungarees Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Group Inc.

A case in which the Court will decide whether, when a plaintiff asserts new claims, federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated and resolved in any prior case between the parties.

Maine Community Health Options v. United States

Several cases in which the Court will decide whether an appropriations rider whose text bars the agency’s use of certain funds to pay a statutory obligation, but does not repeal or amend the statutory obligation, does in fact impliedly repeal the obligation, and whether the presumption against retroactivity applies to the interpretation of such an appropriations rider.

Mathena v. Malvo

A case in which the Court will decide whether its prior decision regarding constitutional rules for sentencing juveniles is a substantive rule of constitutional law and thus retroactive, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, below, concluded in direct conflict with Virginia’s highest court.

McKinney v. Arizona

A case in which the Court will decide (1) whether the Arizona Supreme Court was required to apply current law, rather than the law as it existed at the time a defendant’s conviction became final, when weighing mitigating and aggravating evidence to determine whether a death sentence is warranted; and (2) whether the correction of error under Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U.S. 104 (1982), requires resentencing.

Monasky v. Taglieri

A case in which the Court will decide (1) the proper standard of review of a district court’s determination of habitual residence under the Hague Convention—de novo, a deferential version of de novo, or for clear error; and (2) whether, when an infant is too young to acclimate to her surroundings, a subjective agreement between the infant‘s parents is necessary to establish her habitual residence under the Hague Convention.

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York

A case in which the Court will decide whether New York City’s ban on transporting a licensed, locked, and unloaded handgun to a home or shooting range outside city limits is consistent with the Second Amendment, the Commerce Clause, and the constitutional right to travel.

Opati v. Republic of Sudan

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) applies retroactively, thereby permitting recovery of punitive damages against foreign states for terrorist activities occurring prior to the passage of the current version of the statute.

Peter v. NantKwest, Inc.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the phrase “[a]ll the expenses of the proceedings” in 35 U.S.C. § 145 include attorneys’ fees incurred as a result of defending the agency in § 145 litigation.

R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

A case in which the Court will decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination against transgender employees based on (1) their status as transgender or (2) sex stereotyping under Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S. 228 (1989).

Ramos v. Louisiana

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a unanimous verdict against the states.

Retirement Plans Committee of IBM v. Jander

A case in which the Court will decide whether generalized allegations that the harm of an inevitable disclosure of an alleged fraud generally increases over time satisfy the “more harm than good” pleading standard for ERISA claims the Court established in Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer.

Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC

A case in which the Court will decide whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay in bankruptcy proceeding is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1).

Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

A case in which the Court will decide whether federal common law or the law of the relevant state determines the ownership of a tax refund paid to an affiliated group.

Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc.

A case in which the Court will decide whether, under Section 35 of the Lanham Act, willful infringement is a prerequisite for an award of an infringer’s profits for a violation of Section 43(a).

Rotkiske v. Klemm

A case in which the Court will resolve a circuit split as to when the one-year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act begins—when the violation is discovered, as the Fourth and Ninth Circuits have held, or on the date the violation occurred, as the Third Circuit held below.

Shular v. United States

A case in which the Court will decide whether the determination of a “serious drug offense” under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determination of a “violent felony” under the act.

Thole v. U.S. Bank, N.A.

A case in which the Court will decide whether an ERISA plan participant may seek injunctive relief or restoration of plan losses caused by fiduciary breach without demonstrating individual financial loss or the imminent risk thereof.

United States v. Sineneng-Smith

A case in which the Court will decide whether the federal law making it a crime to encourage or induce illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain is unconstitutional on its face.

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Lauren Mattiuzzo

Lauren has been an employee of the William S. Hein & Co., Inc. for more than 20 years. During her long tenure, she has worked in various departments and developed considerable skills. Most recently, she acts as a lead member of the marketing staff and oversees the HeinOnline support team. Lauren's blog posts focus on tips, tricks, and how to make the most out of HeinOnline tools. She also enjoys writing on topics that are close to her heart, such as social issues, pop culture, and sports.

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