To have Article III standing to sue in federal court, plaintiffs must demonstrate, among other things, that they suffered a concrete harm.

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Congress requires most domestic refineries to blend a certain amount of ethanol and other renewable fuels into the transportation fuels they produce.

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In March 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, 134 Stat. 281.

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The Fourth Amendment ordinarily requires that police officers get a warrant before entering a home without permission.

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are two of the Nation’s leading sources of mortgage financing.

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A public high school student used, and transmitted to her Snapchat friends, vulgar language and gestures criticizing both the school and the school’s cheerleading team.

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A California regulation grants labor organizations a “right to take access” to an agricultural employer’s property in order to solicit support for unionization.

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This case involves a securities-fraud class action filed by several pension funds against The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and three of its former executives (collectively, Goldman).

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In the Sherman Act, Congress tasked courts with enforcing a policy of competition on the belief that market forces “yield the best allocation” of the Nation’s resources.

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The validity of a patent previously issued by the Patent and Trademark Office can be challenged before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, an executive tribunal within the PTO.

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Willie Johnson towed Matthew Reeves’ broken-down car back to the city after finding Reeves stranded on an Alabama dirt road.

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In these cases, we are called upon for the first time to apply §2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to regulations that govern how ballots are collected and counted.

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To solicit contributions in California, charitable organizations must disclose to the state Attorney General’s Office the identities of their major donors.

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In Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co. v. Formica Insulation Co., 266 U. S. 342, 349 (1924), this Court approved the “well settled” patent-law doctrine of “assignor estoppel.”

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Federal immigration law contains various provisions authorizing the Government to detain aliens during the removal process.

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Eminent domain is the power of the government to take property for public use without the consent of the owner.

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When a plaintiff alleges a regulatory taking in violation of the Fifth Amendment, a federal court should not consider the claim before the government has reached a “final” decision. Suitum v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 520 U. S. 725, 737 (1997).

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On the afternoon of December 8, 2015, St. Louis police officers arrested Nicholas Gilbert for trespassing in a condemned building and failing to appear in court for a traffic ticket.

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As originally enacted in 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act required most Americans to obtain minimum essential health insurance coverage.

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The Alien Tort Statute (ATS) gives federal courts jurisdiction to hear certain civil actions filed by aliens.

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Catholic Social Services is a foster care agency in Philadelphia.

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Federal law prohibits the possession of firearms by certain categories of individuals, including by those who have been convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year in prison.

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In 1986, Congress established mandatory-minimum penalties for cocaine offenses.

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The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U. S. C. §924(e), mandates a 15-year minimum sentence for persons found guilty of illegally possessing a gun who have three or more prior convictions for a “violent felony.”

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Petitioner Jose Santos Sanchez entered this country unlawfully from El Salvador.

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Nathan Van Buren, a former police sergeant, ran a license-plate search in a law enforcement computer database in exchange for money.

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The question comes to us in cases involving Cesar Alcaraz-Enriquez and Ming Dai. Mr. Alcaraz-Enriquez is a Mexican national.

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The question presented is whether an Indian tribe’s police officer has authority to detain temporarily and to search a non-Indian on a public right-of-way that runs through an Indian reservation.

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Anyone who has applied for a passport, filed for Social Security benefits, or sought a license understands the government’s affinity for forms.

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In 2009, an Alaska jury convicted Sean Wright of 13 counts of sexual abuse of a minor.

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