Supreme Court of the United States
June 30, 2023
- 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (21-476) The First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs and speaking messages with which the designer disagrees.
- Department of Education v. Brown (22-535) Respondents lack Article III standing to assert a procedural challenge to the student-loan debt-forgiveness plan adopted by the Secretary of Education pursuant to Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 (HEROES Act).
- Biden v. Nebraska (22-506) The Secretary of Education does not have authority under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 (HEROES Act) to establish a student loan forgiveness program that will cancel roughly $430 billion in debt principal and affect nearly all borrowers.
June 29, 2023
- Groff v. DeJoy (22-174) Title VII requires an employer that denies a religious accommodation to show that the burden of granting an accommodation would result in substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct of its particular business.
- Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic Int’l, Inc. (21-1043) Applying the presumption against extraterritoriality, two provisions of the Lanham Act that prohibit trademark infringement—15 U. S. C. §1114(1)(a) and §1125(a)(1)—are not extraterritorial and extend only to claims where the infringing “use in commerce” is domestic.
- Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (20-1199) The admissions programs at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
