Recently Covered
Cases Bryan has discussed on Aloha Friday and Morning Report, most recent first. 60 of 429 shown.
Department of the Air Force v. Prutehi Guåhan
The Supreme Court will decide whether the Air Force's submission of a hazardous-waste permit-renewal application is 'final agency action' reviewable under the Administrative Procedure Act. The answer ...
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild v. Department of Homeland Security
The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild sued the Department of Homeland Security to ensure compliance with its FOIA request for information related to a memorandum on matters i...
Biden v. Texas
The Supreme Court held 5-4 that the Biden administration acted within its statutory authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act when it rescinded the Migrant Protection Protocols (Remain in Me...
United States v. Virginia
The Trump administration sued Virginia over a state law which allows undocumented immigrants residing in Virginia to qualify for reduced tuition at public colleges.
Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County
The Supreme Court will decide whether federal law precludes state-law tort claims seeking relief for injuries allegedly caused by interstate and international greenhouse-gas emissions. A ruling for th...
Anderson v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee
The Supreme Court will decide whether, for ERISA claims predicated on fund underperformance, a plaintiff must allege a 'meaningful benchmark' to plausibly plead that a fiduciary breached the duty of p...
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc.
Decided June 4, 2026. The Supreme Court held that Amarin failed to state a claim for actively inducing infringement of its brand-name drug's patented uses under 35 U.S.C. 271(b); the complaint cannot ...
Smith v. Trump (Smith ICC Sanctions)
Matthew Smith and Akila Radhakrishnan, U.S. citizens and human rights advocates, sued the Trump administration over President Trump's executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal C...
State of Oregon v. Trump
When Defense Secretary Hegseth issued directives in October 2025 to federalize and deploy the Oregon National Guard, Oregon went to federal court arguing the administration lacked authority to pull st...
Cable News Network, Inc. v. Trump
CNN, MS NOW, POLITICO, and three of their White House correspondents sued President Trump and three administration officials after the President announced on September 18, 2026 that he was banning the...
Barbara v. Trump (Birthright Citizenship)
On his first day back in office, President Trump signed an executive order reinterpreting the Fourteenth Amendment to deny birthright citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who a...
Barbara v. Trump (Birthright Citizenship N)
A putative class of U.S.-born children and their parents challenged President Trump's January 2025 Executive Order limiting birthright citizenship, arguing it violates the Fourteenth Amendment. Judge ...
Tincher v. Mullin
Minnesota residents sued the Trump administration over the surge in federal immigration enforcement and actions from federal agents against protestors and observers.
Beatty v. Trump
Rep. Joyce Beatty and other plaintiffs sued the Trump administration and the John F. Kennedy Center Board of Trustees over the Board's move to rename the Center, or parts of it, for President Trump. T...
Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights v. McMahon
A group of nonprofit organizations sued the Department of Education over a new rule that would allow the Education secretary to exclude employers from the program if an employer has engaged in activit...
Phang v. Blanche
Journalist and attorney Katie Phang sued Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for the DOJ's failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act (Public Law 119-38), which Congress passed nearly ...
Trump v. Cable News Network, Inc.
Trump sued CNN for defamation in the Southern District of Florida in October 2022. He lost, and lost again on appeal. Judge Raag Singhal dismissed the complaint and the case was terminated on July 28,...
Global Nurse Force v. Trump
A coalition of labor unions, religious organizations, and non-profit organizations sued the Trump administration over the changes to the H-1B visa program which would require the employers of workers ...
Slaughter v. Trump (Slaughter FTC Removal)
In 1935 the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could shield independent-agency officials from at-will firing, meaning the president can't remove the FTC chair or the NLRB chair just because he wants to...
Slaughter v. Trump (Slaughter FTC Appeal)
Slaughter v. Trump (25A264) is the Supreme Court emergency application arising from President Trump's purported firing of FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya in February 2025. ...
Slaughter v. Trump (Slaughter FTC Judg 2025)
The government appealed Judge Alikhan's order granting summary judgement for Rebecca Slaughter and finds that the firing of her as FTC commissioner was unlawful.
Humphrey's Executor v. United States
In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled that the president cannot fire members of independent regulatory agencies like the FTC just because he disagrees with them. Those agencies were designed to operate wit...
Tupe Smith v. State of Alaska
Tupe Smith, who was born in American Samoa and lives in Whittier, Alaska, was charged with first-degree voter misconduct after she checked the box for "citizen of the United States" on her voter paper...
In re Application of the British Broadcasting Corporation, et al., for Access to Opinions and Orders Adjudicating Certain Assertions of Executive Privilege
The British Broadcasting Corporation and two of its production affiliates have asked the federal court in Washington to unseal a set of grand-jury rulings from Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigati...
Trump v. British Broadcasting Corporation
President Trump sued the BBC in his personal capacity over the Panorama documentary "Trump: A Second Chance," first broadcast October 28, 2024, one week before the 2024 election. The complaint alleges...
Newsom v. Trump
California Governor Gavin Newsom filed suit against the Trump administration in 2025, challenging executive actions that the State of California contends exceed federal authority or unlawfully coerce ...
Newsom v. Trump (Nat Guard Fed 2025)
The government's Ninth Circuit appeal (No. 25-3727) from Judge Charles Breyer's order that briefly returned control of the California National Guard to Governor Newsom, testing whether President Trump...
Newsom, et al v. Trump, et al. (Nat Guard appeal, 9th Cir. 25-5553)
The government's Ninth Circuit appeal (No. 25-5553) from Judge Charles Breyer's ruling that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by deploying the California National Guard and U.S...
Texas v. Johnson
Gregory Lee Johnson burned an American flag outside the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas as a political protest. He was convicted under a Texas statute that criminalized desecration of a ...
League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump
The League of Women Voters sued the Trump administration over the new executive order titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections," which purports to exert federal con...
Alex Jones v. Lafferty
Alex Jones v. Lafferty (25-268) is Alex Jones's petition to the Supreme Court for certiorari review of the Connecticut state court judgments in the Sandy Hook defamation litigation. Jones, founder of ...
City of Salem v. Mullin
The City of Salem, Oregon sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and FEMA after the agencies attached new conditions to federal disaster-relief grants the city relies on, including Public Assis...
American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
On August 18, 2026, The Walt Disney Company, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (ABC), and ABC's eight owned-and-operated television stations sued the Federal Communications Commission and its comm...
United State v. New Hampshire Secretary of State
The United States filed a suit requiring that New Hampshire turn over it voter list maintenance procedures and an electronic copy of its statewide voter registration list to ensure compliance with Pre...
Carroll v. Trump
E. Jean Carroll sued Donald Trump for defamation over statements he made in June 2019, while president, denying her account that he sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store dressing room...
Maryland v. Patel
The state of Maryland sued the Trump administration over the Trump administration's attempt to delay and obstruct the construction of a new FBI headquarters in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Trump v. California (Elections EO stay application)
The Solicitor General asked the Supreme Court to stay the permanent injunction against Sections 2 and 3 of Executive Order 14399, 'Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,...
Trump v. Dow Jones Company
Defamation suit filed by President Donald J. Trump on July 18, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Miami Division, 1:25-cv-23232, Judge Darrin P. Gayles). The case i...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Ass'n
In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding mechanism against an Appropriations Clause challenge. Justice Thomas, writing for the majority, held that...
Blumenthal v. Trump
About 215 Democratic members of Congress sued President Trump under the Foreign Emoluments Clause, arguing he accepted benefits from foreign governments through his businesses without asking Congress ...
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Trump
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, joined by hospitality-industry competitors, sued President Trump under both Emoluments Clauses, arguing his hotels and restaurants took payments f...
District of Columbia and Maryland v. Trump
The District of Columbia and the State of Maryland sued President Trump under both Emoluments Clauses over the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Judge Peter Messitte adopted a broad reading of ...
Trump v. New York
Trump v. New York (2020) dismissed 6-3 as not ripe a challenge to President Trump's memorandum directing the Census Bureau to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment base used to alloca...
Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War (Anthropic N.D. 2026)
Anthropic, the maker of the AI assistant Claude, sued the Department of War (formerly the Department of Defense) and other federal officials after the government moved to blacklist the company, before...
New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support v. Trump
The government appealed Judge Saint-Marc's preliminary injunction preventing President Trump's birthright citizenship executive order from going into effect.
State of California v. Trump
This is the appeal in the multistate challenge to Executive Order 14399, "Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections" (91 Fed. Reg. 17125, Mar. 31, 2026). In the district cou...
The Sustainability Institute v. Trump (Sustainability Injunct 2)
A coalition of nonprofit organizations and local governments sued the Trump administration in March 2025 after the Environmental Protection Agency froze and then terminated grants that Congress had fu...
The Sustainability Institute v. Trump (Sustainability Appeal 20)
The government appealed Judge Gergel's order granting a permanent injunction for the plaintiffs regarding 36 out of the 38 grants frozen and requiring the government to release the requested funds.
In re Kevin Bolan
An attorney disciplinary proceeding against Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Bolan in the District of Rhode Island. The proceeding grew out of Bolan's handling of the government's response in Gomez v. Ne...
Little v. Hecox
This case involves a challenge to an Idaho law that bans transgender women and girls from participating in women's sports. The case originated when a transgender athlete, Lindsay Hecox, sought to play...
EEOC v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
The EEOC, investigating alleged antisemitism at the University of Pennsylvania, subpoenaed the university for the names and personal contact information of members of Jewish organizations on campus an...
Nicolas Talbott v. President Trump
6 current transgender service members and 2 prospective members sued President Trump, seeking injunctive relief against the implementation of this order. The suit alleges the order violates the Equal ...
Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot v. Donald Trump
The government appealed Judge Reyes' order staying Secretary Noem's termination of TPS for Haiti.
In re Grand Jury Subpoenas Dated July 10, 2026
The New York Times Company and five of its journalists, Julian E. Barnes, Adam Goldman, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt, moved to quash grand jury subpoenas ad testificandum dated July 10, 2...
Mahdawi v. Trump (Mahdawi, D. Vt., 2025)
Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian residing in the United States as a lawful permanent resident, was detained by the Department of Homeland Security following an interview to become a U.S. citizen.
Ireland v. United States
Seventeen transgender members of the U.S. Air Force or Space Force sued the United States over the rescission of their retirement orders.
Mahdawi v. Trump (detention appeal, CA)
The government appealed Judge Crawford's order requiring the release of Mohsen Mahdawi. On July 21, 2026, a unanimous Second Circuit panel (Livingston, Nardini, Menashi) vacated the district court's r...
United States v. Minnesota (Sanctuary laws, 2025 Sep)
The United States filed a suit challenging Minnesota sanctuary city laws and policies.
Coalition for Independent Technology Research v. Rubio
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research sued the Trump administration over the new policy which targets noncitizens who conduct misinformation and disinformation research or promote certain ...