Recently Covered
Cases Bryan has discussed on Aloha Friday and Morning Report, most recent first. 60 of 659 shown.
Trump v. Internal Revenue Service
President Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion in damages after a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor illegally released his tax returns in 2023 without authorization. Judge Kathleen Williams issued a 56-pag...
American Oversight v. U.S. Department of Justice
Government transparency nonprofit American Oversight sued the DOJ seeking a court order compelling expedited processing of two FOIA requests targeting Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's official c...
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 ...
McCarthy v. Hernandez
The Supreme Court summarily reversed the Second Circuit's grant of federal habeas relief to Pedro Hernandez, convicted of kidnapping and murdering six-year-old Etan Patz in 1979. Hernandez confessed a...
Washington v. Department of Transportation
A coalition of states sued the Department of Transportation over the suspension of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program, which was enacted in the Infrastructure Investment and ...
Washington v. Department of Commerce
The state of Washington sued the Department of Commerce over the termination of federal grants related to helping communities become more resilient to the effects of climate change.
American Bar Association v. Executive Office of the President
The American Bar Association sued the Trump administration over the president's attacks on law firms.
Association of American Universities v. Department of Defense
The case involves Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reclassifying “indirect costs” for academic DOD research as wasteful and refusing to pay them. The court granted summary judgment ordering DOD to resto...
Doe v.Noem
The government appealed Judge Faila's order granting a preliminary injunction which postponed the termination of TPS for Syria.
Trump v. Dow Jones Company
President Trump filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against Dow Jones and Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, alleging that 2025 reporting about his alleged connection to Jeffrey Epstein...
Trump v. CASA Inc.
The Trump administration challenged district-court injunctions blocking its executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants and temporary visa holders....
Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC
The Supreme Court held that the Alien Tort Statute does not permit federal courts to impose liability on foreign corporations for human rights violations committed abroad, resolving a decades-long que...
American Federation of Government Employees v. Trump (AFGE EO 2025)
The American Federation of Government Employees sued the Trump administration over President Trump's Executive Order which aims to rescind collective bargaining agreements signed under the Biden admin...
NVIDIA Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB
NVIDIA Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB (2024) held that in securities fraud class actions, courts may not consider the merits of expert testimony at the class certification stage when resolving wheth...
National Security Counselors v. Justice Department
National Security Counselors filed a Freedom of Information Act suit against the Department of Justice and the Office of Legal Counsel, seeking formal OLC written opinions related to FOIA, the Privacy...
In re: Donald Trump
The government appealed Judge Boasberg's order contempt inquiry into the Trump administration.
United State v. Texas
The Trump administration sued the state of Texas over its legislation which allows undocumented immigrants to receive instate tuition benefits.
Council petitions the court for a stay of 2025 pending something I don't know
Public Broadcasting Service v.Trump
PBS sued President Trump over his executive order seeking to end funding to the service over the content of its news and shows.
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
The Supreme Court considered whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment bars a city from enforcing anti-camping ordinances that impose criminal penalties on homeless in...
Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency
In a major emergency ruling, the Supreme Court stayed the EPA's 'Good Neighbor' rule, which required upwind states to reduce air pollution that drifts into downwind states and contributes to smog non-...
Bittner v. United States
The Supreme Court resolved a significant penalty question under the Bank Secrecy Act's foreign financial account reporting requirements, determining whether the Treasury Department's non-willful FBAR ...
University of California Student Association v. Acting Secretary Carter
The University of California Student Association, represented by Public Citizen and the National Student Legal Defense Network, sued Acting Education Secretary Denise Carter and the Department of Educ...
Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court
Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court (2021) held 8-0 that state courts may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a product liability defendant even when the injury-causi...
Sy et al v. Noem
The government appealed Judge White's order granting a preliminary injunction preventing the deportation of plaintiffs who has their F-1 visas removed from the SEVIS system.
Boe v. U.S.
Boe v. U.S. at docket 5:09-cv-02107 corresponds to the CourtListener slug boe-v-yamaha-motor-corporation-usa, indicating a 2009 civil products liability case against Yamaha Motor Corporation, not a su...
Pereida v. Wilkinson
The Supreme Court resolved a critical question about which immigration crimes disqualify a noncitizen from 'cancellation of removal' (a form of relief requiring ten years of continuous presence and go...
Niz-Chavez v. Garland
The Supreme Court addressed a critical procedural question in immigration removal proceedings: whether the government's service of an initial Notice to Appear - a charging document required to begin r...
Garland v. Dai
The Supreme Court addressed whether a federal immigration court or the Board of Immigration Appeals may reject an asylum applicant's uncontradicted testimony about persecution simply by finding it inh...
BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
The Supreme Court ruled on whether the Fourth Circuit had jurisdiction over a climate change lawsuit that Baltimore, Maryland brought against fossil fuel companies in state court under state law, addr...
National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston
The Supreme Court unanimously rejected the NCAA's restrictions on education-related compensation for college athletes, holding that the rules limiting certain academic benefits violated federal antitr...
HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association
HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, decided 6-3 in June 2021 with Justice Gorsuch writing for the Court, held that small oil refineries that previously received hardshi...
Brown v. Davenport
The Supreme Court addressed when federal courts reviewing habeas corpus petitions from state prisoners may grant relief based on a trial error that was reviewed only for 'harmless error' in state cour...
Houston Community College System v. Wilson
The Supreme Court unanimously held that a public university governing board's formal censure of an elected trustee (a public rebuke for his speech criticizing the university administration) did not co...
Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson
Texas passed S.B. 8, a six-week abortion ban enforced entirely by private citizens—anyone could sue abortion providers for $10,000 per procedure, but no state official was directly involved in enforce...
Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
The Supreme Court considered whether a state may intervene as of right to defend the constitutionality of one of its statutes when a federal court enjoins that statute and the state's own officer who ...
303 Creative LLC v. Elenis
Lorie Smith designs websites in Colorado. State anti-discrimination law would require her business to serve same-sex couples even though she objects to same-sex marriage on religious grounds. She sued...
National Pork Producers Council v. Ross
The Supreme Court considered a dormant Commerce Clause challenge to California's Proposition 12, which sets minimum space requirements for confinement of pigs and other farm animals and prohibits the ...
Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.
The Supreme Court addressed whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a state court to exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant corporation that is not incorporated in the s...
Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools
The Supreme Court addressed a procedural question of significant consequence for special-education families: whether a student with disabilities who prevails in an Individuals with Disabilities Educat...
Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi
The Supreme Court addressed the legal standard governing the validity of broad genus patent claims in the life sciences sector, specifically how much disclosure a patent applicant must provide to 'ena...
Slack Technologies v. Pirani
The Supreme Court addressed whether a plaintiff seeking to bring a securities fraud class action under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933 must demonstrate a traceable connection between the secu...
Department of Agriculture v. Kirtz
The Supreme Court addressed whether the federal Privacy Act waives sovereign immunity broadly enough to permit a plaintiff to sue a federal agency for money damages for any violation of the Act's data...
Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fikre
The Supreme Court addressed the government's attempt to use the voluntary cessation doctrine to moot a lawsuit challenging the no-fly list after it removed a plaintiff from the list during litigation,...
Harrington v. Purdue Pharma
Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy while facing billions in opioid liability, and the Sackler family — who owned Purdue and had already extracted roughly 1 billion from the company — agreed to contrib...
Erlinger v. United States
The Supreme Court addressed a circuit split over whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's sentencing enhancement -- which triggers a mandatory 15-year sentence for gun possession by someone with three ...
Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida
The Supreme Court considered whether the Americans with Disabilities Act protects employees against discrimination only while they are 'qualified' for a position, meaning capable of performing essenti...
Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS
The government appealed Judge Kollar-Kotelly's order which preliminarily enjoined the IRS from disclosing taxpayer return information to DHS or any of its component agencies.
United States v. James (Bank fraud, 2025 Oct)
A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James related to allegations of bank fraud and false statement charges.
National Endowment for Democracy v. United States (Appeal Injunction 2025)
The government appealed Judge Friedrich's order granting a preliminary injunction which prevents the Trump administration from withholding or otherwise interfering with the remaining 2025 funds approp...
United States v. James (Unspecified, 2025 Nov)
A 2025 federal civil or appellate matter involving Ronald and Terrie Miller, listed in the worklist as United States v. James. The case appears to involve individual litigants in a proceeding against ...
United States v. Wong Kim Ark
Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrant parents who were subjects of the Emperor of China. When he returned to the United States after visiting China, the government tried to exclu...