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Hear the opinions from the United States Supreme Court presented in their entirety, but with citations omitted. This podcast is not affiliated with the United States Supreme Court or its staff in any way.
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Whitton v. Dixon
1w ago00:22:18Tap to summarizeWelcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Whitton v Dixon.In this case, the court considered whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by relying on post-trial DNA evidence (discovered years after the original trial) when evaluating whether the Florida Supreme Court reasonably determined that a Giglio error was harmless and that the evidence against Whitton was overwhelming.The case was decided on June 1, 2026.The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted. If you appreciate this episode, please subscribe. Thank you.
Transcribe →Rutherford v. United States
2w ago00:49:08Tap to summarizeWelcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Rutherford v United States.In this case, the court considered this issue: May a district court, when evaluating a motion for compassionate release under 18 U-S-C § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), consider as an “extraordinary and compelling reason” the fact that a defendant is serving a sentence substantially longer than what would be imposed today due to the First Step Act’s prospective changes to mandatory minimum penalties, particularly where the disparity amounts to decades of additional imprisonment?The case was decided on May 28, 2026.The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted. If you appreciate this episode, please subscribe. Thank you.
Transcribe →Fernandez v. United States
2w ago00:54:53Tap to summarizeWelcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Fernandez v United States.In this case, the court considered this issue: Can a federal prisoner use the compassionate release law to get their sentence reduced based on claims that they might be innocent or that their sentence is unfair, even though these same claims would normally have to be raised through habeas corpus?The case was decided on May 28, 2026.The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted. If you appreciate this episode, please subscribe. Thank you.
Transcribe →Pitchford v. Cain
2w ago00:24:17Tap to summarizeWelcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Pitchford v Cain.In this case, the court considered this issue: Did the Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably decide—under the standards set by federal habeas law—that Terry Pitchford gave up his right to argue that the prosecutor’s explanations for striking four Black jurors were false or racially biased?The case was decided on May 28, 2026.The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted. If you appreciate this episode, please subscribe. Thank you.
Transcribe →Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock
2w ago00:11:08Tap to summarizeWelcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock. In this case, the court considered this issue: Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce—but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles that cross borders—“transportation workers” “engaged in foreign or interstate commerce” for purposes of the exemption in Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act?The case was decided on May 28, 2026The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted. If you appreciate this episode, please subscribe. Thank you.
Transcribe →Margolin v. National Association of Immigration Judges
2w ago00:08:33Tap to summarizeWelcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Margolin v. National Association of Immigration Judges. In this case, the court considered this issue: whether the Fourth Circuit violated the principle of party presentation by vacating and remanding the case on a novel jurisdictional issue regarding the Civil Service Reform Act’s functioning that the parties had not raised or briefed.The case was decided on May 26, 2026.The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted. If you appreciate this episode, please subscribe. Thank you.
Transcribe →Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd.
2w ago00:36:29Tap to summarizeWelcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd.In this case, the court considered this issue: Is the legal right to sue under Title 3 of the LIBERTAD Act tied to the confiscated property claim or the hypothetical, unexpired duration of the original property interest?The case was decided on May 21, 2026.The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted. If you appreciate this episode, please subscribe. Thank you.
Transcribe →Hamm v. Smith
2w ago01:19:14Tap to summarizeWelcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Hamm v. Smith.In this case, the court considered this issue: When a capital defendant has taken multiple IQ tests with varying results, how should courts evaluate the cumulative effect of those scores to determine whether the defendant has significantly subaverage intellectual functioning under Atkins v. Virginia?The case was decided on May 21, 2026.The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted. If you appreciate this episode, please subscribe. Thank you.
Transcribe →M & K Employee Solutions, Inc. v. Trustees of IAM Nat. Pension
2w ago00:16:01Tap to summarizeWelcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in M & K Employee Solutions, Inc. v. Trustees of IAM Nat. Pension.In this case, the court considered this issue: When a pension plan calculates how much a departing employer owes “as of the end of the plan year,” must the plan use the financial assumptions it had already adopted by that date, or can it use new assumptions created after that date if they are based on information that was available at year-end?The case was decided on May 21, 2026.The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted. If you appreciate this episode, please subscribe. Thank you.
Transcribe →Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties
4w ago00:21:56Tap to summarizeWelcome to Supreme Court Opinions. In this episode, you’ll hear the Court’s opinion in Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties. In this case, the court considered this issue: Does a federal court that initially exercises jurisdiction and stays a case pending arbitration maintain jurisdiction over a post-arbitration Section 9 or 10 application where jurisdiction would otherwise be lacking?The case was decided on May 14, 2026.The opinion is presented here in its entirety, but with citations omitted. If you appreciate this episode, please subscribe. Thank you.
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