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The High Court Report

SCOTUS Oral Arguments

The High Court Report makes Supreme Court decisions accessible to everyone. We deliver comprehensive SCOTUS coverage without the legal jargon or partisan spin—just clear analysis that explains how these cases affect your life, business, and community. What you get: Case previews and breakdowns, raw oral argument audio, curated key exchanges, detailed opinion analysis, and expert commentary from a practicing attorney who"s spent 12 years in courtrooms arguing the same types of cases the Supreme

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Oral Argument: Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta | Case No....

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2025/06/11

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Supreme Court Roundup: Decisions, Emergency Actions,...

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2025/06/09

Supreme Court Roundup: Decisions, Emergency Actions, and New GrantsEpisode OverviewIn this episode, we analyze the Supreme Court's recent activities across three key areas:Six unanimous decisions released on June 5th, 2025Two significant emergency docket interventions involving DOGEThree major cases granted certiorari via June 6th, 2025 OrderJune 5, 2025 Unanimous DecisionsRemarkable consensus: 5 unanimous decisions, 1 8-1 dismissalStrategic clearing of non-controversial cases with 30 contentious

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Opinion Summary: Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings...

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2025/06/05

Opinion Summary: Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Davis | Date Decided: 6/5/25 | Case No. 24–304 In this episode, I breakdown the dismissal, Justice Kavanaugh's dissent and theories for the dismissal. Link to Docket: Here.Question Presented: Whether a federal court may certify a class action when some of its members lack any Article III injury.Result: Dismissed as improvidently granted. Voting Breakdown: 8-1. Per Curiam decision. Justice Kavanaugh filed a dissenting opinion.Link to Opinion:

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Opinion Summary: Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v....

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2025/06/05

Opinion Summary: Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos | Date Decided: 6/5/25 | Case No. 23–1141 Link to Docket: Here.Background:The Mexican Government sued leading members of the American firearms industry, seeking to hold them liable for harms inflicted by Mexican drug cartels. According to Mexico, America's firearms companies have engaged in a series of business practices for decades-from selling semi-automatic rifles, to making magazines that hold over ten rounds, to failing

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28:54

Opinion Summary: Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v....

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2025/06/05

Opinion Summary: Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Comm’n. | Date Decided: 6/5/25 | Case No. 24–154 Link to Docket: Here.Question Presented: Holding: The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s application of § 108.02(15)(h)(2) to petitioners violates the First Amendment.Result: Reversed and remanded.Voting Breakdown: 9-0. Justice Sotomayor delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court. Justices Thomas and Jackson each filed concurring opinions.Link to Opinion: Here.Oral

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Opinion Summary: CC/Devas (Mauritius) Ltd. v. Antrix...

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2025/06/05

Opinion Summary: CC/Devas (Mauritius) Ltd. v. Antrix Corp. | Date Decided: 6/5/25 | Case No. 23–1201 This case was consolidated with: Devas Multimedia Private Ltd. v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., Case No. 24-17.Link to Docket: Here.Questions Presented:Whether plaintiffs must prove minimum contacts before federal courts may assert personal jurisdiction over foreign states sued under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.The question presented in Antrix Corp. Ltd. is: Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act,

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Opinion Summary: BLOM Bank SAL v. Honickman| Date...

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2025/06/05

Opinion Summary: BLOM Bank SAL v. Honickman| Date Decided: 6/5/25 | Case No. 23–1259 Link to Docket: Here.Background:For more than 70 years, this Court has "required a movant seeking relief under Rule 60(b)(6)" of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure "to show 'extraordinary circumstances' justifying the reopening of a final judgment." Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 U.S. 524, 535 (2005) (quoting Ackermann v. United States, 340 U.S. 193, 199 (1950)). This Court has also stressed that a movant must be

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23:46

Opinion Summary: Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services |...

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2025/06/05

Opinion Summary: Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services | Case No. 23-1039 | Date Decided: 6/5/25 In this episode, we'll Ames versus Ohio Department of Youth Services, Case Number 23–1039. I'll walk through the opinion, give my thoughts on case implications and also compare how the oral arguments compared and contrasted to the ultimate opinions. Spoiler alert: oral arguments heavily forecasted the results.Link to Docket: Here.Question Presented: Whether, in addition to pleading the other elements of

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17:19

Guns, Warrantless Home Searches, and Ballot Boxes:...

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2025/06/02

Guns, Warrantless Home Searches, and Ballot Boxes: Inside the Supreme Court's June 2nd Order List In this episode of Supreme Court Oral Arguments and Opinions, I break down the Court's June 2, 2025 Order List, focusing on several cases that touch on fundamental constitutional questions affecting Americans' daily lives. The episode examines four cases where the Court granted certiorari and two denied cases that sparked passionate written dissents.Cases Granted Review: 1. Bost v. Illinois Board of

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Emergency Docket Order Summary: Noem v. Doe | Order...

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2025/05/30

Emergency Docket Order Summary: Noem v. Doe | Order Date: 5/30/25 | Case No. 24A1079 Link to Docket: Here.Question Presented: Whether the Supreme Court should stay the April 15, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts pending appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and any further proceedings in this Court.The central issue in this case is whether the Secretary of Homeland Security lawfully terminated the CHNV parole program and the

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Reading the Eagle County Tea Leaves: How the...

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2025/05/30

Reading the Eagle County Tea Leaves: How the Justices' Oral Argument Questions Foreshadowed Their Opinions This episode of SCOTUS Oral Arguments and Opinions delves into the case of Seven County Infrastructure Coalition versus Eagle County, decided on May 29, 2025. The episode compares and contrasts the oral arguments and written opinions of Justices Kavanaugh and Sotomayor. Justice Kavanaugh's majority opinion emphasized broad judicial deference to federal agencies and the economic impact of

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Opinion Summary: Seven County Infrastructure...

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2025/05/29

Opinion Summary: Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County | Date Decided: 5/29/25 | Case No. 23–975 Link to Docket: Here.Question Presented: Whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which the agency has regulatory authority.Holding: The D.C. Circuit failed to afford the Board the substantial judicial deference required in NEPA cases and incorrectly interpreted NEPA to require the

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15:45

Cert Denial: Where Do Student Speech Rights End? The...

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2025/05/27

L. M. v. Middleborough, Petitioner v. United States, et al. | Decision Date: 5/27/25 | Case No. 24-410Link to Docket: Here.Question Presented: Whether school officials may presume substantial disruption or a violation of the rights of others from a student’s silent, passive, and untargeted ideological speech simply because that speech relates to matters of personal identity, even when the speech responds to the school’s opposing views, actions, or policies.Result: Denial of certiorari.Voting

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Cert Denial: Apache Stronghold: When Sacred Sites...

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2025/05/27

Apache Stronghold, Petitioner v. United States, et al. | Order Date: 5/23/25 | Case No. 24-291Link to Docket: Here.Question Presented: Whether the government “substantially burdens” religious exercise under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("RFRA"), or must satisfy heightened scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause, when it singles out a sacred site for complete physical destruction, ending specific religious rituals forever.Result: Denial of certiorari.Voting Breakdown: 6-2. Justice Gorsuch

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Order Summary: Trump v. Wilcox | Order Date: 5/22/25...

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2025/05/22

Order Summary: Trump v. Wilcox | Order Date: 5/22/25 | Case No. 24A966 This case comes from the Emergency Docket.Link to Docket: Here.Question Presented: Whether the Supreme Court should stay the judgments issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia pending appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and any further proceedings in this Court. The underlying case involves the questions of whether the President may remove without cause members of the National Labor

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09:06

Reading the Kousisis Tea Leaves: How the Justices'...

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2025/05/22

I created this episode to highlight and contrast the Justices' questions and comments at oral argument to the written opinion in Kousisis.While all Justices agreed on rejecting the economic-loss requirement, their different concerns and questioning approaches during oral argument directly predicted the fragmented reasoning that would characterize their written opinions. The oral argument served as a laboratory for testing legal theories that would ultimately prove difficult to reconcile in a single

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Opinion Summary: Oklahoma Statewide Charter School...

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2025/05/22

Opinion Summary: Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond | Case No. 24-394 | Date Decided: 5/22/25 Link to Docket: Here.Background: The Oklahoma Constitution requires Oklahoma to “establish[ ] and maint[ain] . . . a system of public schools, which shall be open to all the children of the state and free from sectarian control.” The Oklahoma Constitution also requires that [n]o public money . . . shall ever be appropriated . . . or used, directly or indirectly, for the use, benefit, or

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Opinion Summary: Kousisis v. United States | Case No....

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2025/05/22

Opinion Summary: Kousisis v. United States | Case No. 23-909 | Date Decided: 5/22/25 Link to Docket: Here.Questions Presented: Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud, even if inflicting economic harm on the alleged victim was not the object of the scheme. Whether a sovereign's statutory, regulatory, or policy interest is a property interest when compliance is a material term of payment for goods or services. Whether all contract rights are

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Opinion Summary: A.A.R.P. v. Trump, Case No. 24A1007...

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2025/05/16

Case Info: A.A.R.P. v. Trump, Case No. 24A1007 | Date Decided: 5/16/25Link to Docket: Here.Question Presented: Whether Venezuelan nationals detained as alleged members of a terrorist organization are entitled to constitutionally adequate notice and opportunity to challenge their removal before being deported under the Alien Enemies Act, and if so, what minimum notice requirements must the government provide to satisfy due process.Plain Language Breakdown: In this case, the Supreme Court decided that

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Highlights: Trump, President of U.S. v. CASA, Inc. |...

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2025/05/16

Here are some highlights from the Trump v. CASA, Inc. case heard on May 15, 2025.Justice Kagan and Justice Barrett went viral for their questions. Those portions begin around 09:17.Please see the oral argument episode for additional case details.As always, I welcome any feedback on the episode or podcast. Email: scotus.cases.pod@gmail.com.

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