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Not all Supreme Court decisions are ultimately influential and, as in other fields, not all important decisions are made at the Supreme Court level. Many federal courts issue rulings that are significant or come to be influential, but those are outside the scope of this list.
The ruling was issued in a “sham marriage” case after an American citizen applied with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to obtain a visa for her noncitizen Palestinian ...
Decisions that do not note a Justice delivering the Court's opinion are per curiam. Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly. Justices frequently join multiple opinions in a single case; each vote is subdivided accordingly.
A three-judge panel of the District Court properly ordered the California prison system to release prisoners to resolve overcrowding. Connick v. Thompson: 09-571: 2011-03-29 A prosecutor's office cannot be held liable for a single Brady violation by one of its members on the theory that the office provided inadequate training. Williamson v ...
Justice Amy Coney Barrett's first opinion shields the EPA from being forced to release draft opinions on new rules. In FOIA and immigration rulings, Supreme Court gives government the benefit of ...
Many of the Biden administration's immigration policies have been subject to protracted litigation. Shortly after taking office in January 2021, the administration directed the U.S. immigration agency, ICE, to stop all deportations except those that posed a threat to "national security, public safety, and border security". The act was widely ...
The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are often left out of regular partisan sniping, but they're absolutely crucial to determining policy in America. Three cases were consolidated and ...
[1] [2] [3] The case was a challenge by a U.S. citizen to the State Department's rejection of her non-citizen husband's application for an immigration visa with little explanation. In the majority opinion by Justice Barrett , the Supreme Court concluded that history and tradition supported Congress's authority to decide whether a citizen's ...