June 30, 2025
Goldey v. Fields (24-809)
(Per Curiam)
The Fourth Circuit’s determination that inmate Andrew Fields could proceed with his Eighth Amendment excessive-force claim for damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U. S. 388 (1971), is reversed, and the case is remanded.
June 27, 2025
Trump v. CASA, Inc. (24A884)
Because universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts, the Court grants the Government’s applications for a partial stay of the injunctions entered below regarding the implementation and enforcement of President Trump’s Executive Order No. 14160, but only to the extent that the injunctions are broader than necessary to provide complete relief to each plaintiff with standing to sue.
Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc. (24-316)
Members of the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force are inferior officers whose appointment by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services is consistent with the Appointments Clause. Art. II, §2, cl. 2.
FCC v. Consumers’ Research (24-354)
The universal-service contribution scheme does not violate the Constitution’s nondelegation doctrine; Congress sufficiently guided and constrained the discretion that it lodged with the Federal Communications Commission to implement that scheme, and the FCC has retained all decision-making authority within that sphere, relying on the Universal Service Administrative Company only for non-binding advice.
Mahmoud v. Taylor (24-297)
Parents challenging the Montgomery County Board of Education’s introduction of certain “LGBTQ+-inclusive” storybooks, along with the Board’s decision to withhold parental opt outs from that instruction, are entitled to a preliminary injunction.
Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton (23-1122)
Texas law H. B. 1181—which requires certain commercial websites publishing sexually explicit content that is obscene to minors to verify that visitors are 18 or older— only incidentally burdens the protected speech of adults and survives intermediate scrutiny under the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause.