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15 supreme court decisions made this year

I decided to do some research because I was curious what the court was up to. I pulled a lot of direct quotes and I encourage you to read my sources.

  1. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: overturned the constitutional right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade in 1973
  2. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen: the court ruled that states with strict limits on carrying guns in public violate the Second Amendment
  3. Carson v. Makin: the court ruled that a Maine program that excludes religious schools from a state tuition program is a violation of the free exercise of religion
  4. Shurtleff v. Boston: the court ruled that the City of Boston had violated the First Amendment when it refused to let a private group raise a Christian flag in front of its City Hall
  5. Houston Community College System v. Wilson: the court ruled that elected bodies do not violate the First Amendment when they censure their members
  6. Ramirez v. Collier: the court ruled that Texas would violate a federal law protecting religious freedom if it executed a death row inmate without allowing his pastor to touch him and pray aloud in the execution chamber
  7. United States v. Zubaydah: the court ruled that the government was not required to disclose the location of a C.I.A. black site where a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba had been tortured
  8. Trump v. Thompson: the court ruled that former President Donald J. Trump could not block the release of White House records to a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol
  9. National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor: the court found that the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-testing mandate for large employers was not lawful
  10. Biden v. Missouri: the court found that the Biden administration’s mandate to require health care workers at facilities receiving federal money to be vaccinated was lawful
  11. Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C.: A case in which the court held that compensatory damages for emotional distress are not available for victims of discrimination under the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act
  12. United States v. Tsarnaev: A case in which the court reinstated the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
  13. United States v. Vaello-Madero: A case in which the  ourt held that the Constitution does not require Congress to make Supplemental Security Income benefits available to the residents of Puerto Rico.
  14. Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center: A case in which the court decided that the court of appeals erred in denying the Kentucky attorney general’s motion to intervene on the Commonwealth’s behalf
  15. City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising of Texas Inc.: A case in which the Court held that the Austin city code’s distinction between on-premise signs, which may be digitized, and off-premise signs, which may not, does not violate the First Amendment.
Sources:
"2021-2022 Term." Oyez. https://www.oyez.org/cases/2021

"Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center." Oyez. https://www.oyez.org/cases/2021/20-601

"The Major Supreme Court Decisions in 2022" by Adam Liptak and Jason Kao. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/21/us/major-supreme-court-cases-2022.html

(Prompt by me)

"United States Supreme Court" by Matt Popovich


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