Hemphill v. New York

  • January 20, 2022
Holding: The trial court’s admission—over Hemphill’s objection—of the plea allocution transcript of an unavailable witness violated Hemphill’s Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him. Judgment: Reversed and Remanded, 8-1,…
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Mississippi v. Tennessee

  • November 22, 2021
Holding: The waters of the Middle Claiborne Aquifer are subject to the judicial remedy of equitable apportionment; Mississippi’s complaint is dismissed without leave to amend. Judgment: Dismissed, 9-0, in an opinion…
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Taylor v. Riojas

  • November 2, 2021
Holding: Because any reasonable correctional officer should have realized that Trent Taylor’s conditions of confinement offended the Eighth Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit erred in…
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Mckesson v. Doe

  • November 2, 2021
Holding: Under the unusual circumstances of this case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit should not have ventured into such an uncertain area of state tort law…
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Dunn v. Reeves

  • July 2, 2021
Holding: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit erred in characterizing the Alabama court’s case-specific analysis as a “categorical rule” that any prisoner will always lose an ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel…
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Johnson v. Guzman Chavez

  • June 29, 2021
Holding: The detention of a noncitizen ordered removed from the United States who reenters without authorization is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1231. Judgment: Reversed, 6-3, in an opinion by Justice…
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American Athletic Conference v. Alston

  • June 23, 2021
Holding: The district court’s injunction pertaining to certain NCAA rules limiting the education-related benefits that schools may make available to student-athletes is consistent with established antitrust principles.
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