Here is the second case of the day from the Supreme Court.
Case: Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Authored by: Justice Thomas
Joined by: Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Alito, Sotomayor, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Jackson.
Holding: The cruise lines’ use of the docks is sufficient to establish that they used “property which was confiscated by the Cuban Government”; Havana Docks is not required to establish that the cruise lines trafficked in Havana Dock’s property interest.
Dissent: Justice Kagan.
Link to opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-983_c07d.pdf
Case: Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Authored by: Justice Thomas
Joined by: Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Alito, Sotomayor, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Jackson.
Holding: The cruise lines’ use of the docks is sufficient to establish that they used “property which was confiscated by the Cuban Government”; Havana Docks is not required to establish that the cruise lines trafficked in Havana Dock’s property interest.
Dissent: Justice Kagan.
Link to opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-983_c07d.pdf
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Hamm v. Smith is dismissed as improvidently granted. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Jackson joined, concurred in the dismissal. Justice Thomas dissented. Justice Alito also dissented, join by Justice Thomas and Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Gorsuch in part.
Link - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-872_ec8f.pdf
Link - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-872_ec8f.pdf
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JUST IN - Supreme Court to release one or more opinions in argued cases on Thursday May 28, at 10amET.
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Here is the first opinion of the day from the Supreme Court.
Case - Fernandez v. United States.
Authored by - Justice Barrett
Joined by - Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. Justices Sotomayor and Kagan concur in the judgment.
Holding - A prisoner who collaterally attacks the validity of his conviction
must proceed through 28 U. S. C. §2255, not 18 U. S. C. §3582; the supposed invalidity of a conviction is not among the “extraordinary and
compelling reasons” that justify compassionate release.
Dissent - Justice Jackson
Link to opinion - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-556_8m58.pdf
Case - Fernandez v. United States.
Authored by - Justice Barrett
Joined by - Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. Justices Sotomayor and Kagan concur in the judgment.
Holding - A prisoner who collaterally attacks the validity of his conviction
must proceed through 28 U. S. C. §2255, not 18 U. S. C. §3582; the supposed invalidity of a conviction is not among the “extraordinary and
compelling reasons” that justify compassionate release.
Dissent - Justice Jackson
Link to opinion - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-556_8m58.pdf
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Here is the second opinion of the day from the Supreme Court.
Case: Rutherford v. United States.
Authored by - Justice Barrett
Joined by - Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh.
Holding - When Congress declines to make a sentencing amendment retroactive—as with the change to §924(c)—the resulting sentencing disparity cannot serve as an “extraordinary and compelling” reason that warrants a sentence reduction under 18 U. S. C. §3582(c)(1)(A)(i).
Dissent - Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson.
Link to opinion - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-820_97be.pdf
Case: Rutherford v. United States.
Authored by - Justice Barrett
Joined by - Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh.
Holding - When Congress declines to make a sentencing amendment retroactive—as with the change to §924(c)—the resulting sentencing disparity cannot serve as an “extraordinary and compelling” reason that warrants a sentence reduction under 18 U. S. C. §3582(c)(1)(A)(i).
Dissent - Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson.
Link to opinion - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-820_97be.pdf
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Here is the third opinion of the day from the Supreme Court.
Case - Pitchford v. Cain
Authored by - Justice Kavanaugh
Joined by - Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson.
Holding - The Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably applied the clearly established Batson precedents and unreasonably determined that Pitchford waived his opportunity to rebut the prosecutor’s asserted race-neutral reasons for the peremptory strikes of four black prospective jurors.
Dissent - Justice Gorsuch, joined by Justices Thomas, Alito, and Barrett.
Link to opinion - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-7351_jiel.pdf
Case - Pitchford v. Cain
Authored by - Justice Kavanaugh
Joined by - Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson.
Holding - The Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably applied the clearly established Batson precedents and unreasonably determined that Pitchford waived his opportunity to rebut the prosecutor’s asserted race-neutral reasons for the peremptory strikes of four black prospective jurors.
Dissent - Justice Gorsuch, joined by Justices Thomas, Alito, and Barrett.
Link to opinion - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-7351_jiel.pdf
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Here is the fourth and final opinion of the day from the Supreme Court.
Case - Flowers Foods. V. Brock
Authored by - Justice Gorsuch
Joined by - Unanimous Court.
Holding - A worker who transports goods on an intrastate leg of an interstate journey can qualify for §1’s exemption without crossing state lines or interacting with vehicles that do
Dissent - none.
Link to opinion - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-935_k53m.pdf
Case - Flowers Foods. V. Brock
Authored by - Justice Gorsuch
Joined by - Unanimous Court.
Holding - A worker who transports goods on an intrastate leg of an interstate journey can qualify for §1’s exemption without crossing state lines or interacting with vehicles that do
Dissent - none.
Link to opinion - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-935_k53m.pdf
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JUST IN - Supreme Court to release one or more opinions in argued cases on Thursday June 4, at 10amET.
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NEWS - Justice Barrett’s home was targeted in an apparent “swatting incident” late Wednesday evening. Because every Supreme Court Justice is assigned a 24-7 security detail provided by the Supreme Court Police Personnel, authorities coordinated with the specific detail and no additional resources were dispatched for the matter.
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