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Recent Decisions


June 27, 2022
         
Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dist. (21-418)
The Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment protect an individual engaging in a personal religious observance from government reprisal; the Constitution neither mandates nor permits the government to suppress such religious expression.

         
Concepcion v. United States (20-1650)
Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 132 Stat. 5222, allows district courts to consider intervening changes of law or fact in exercising their discretion to reduce a sentence.

         
Xiulu Ruan v. United States (20-1410)
For the crime of prescribing controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice in violation of 21 U. S. C. §841, the mens rea “knowingly or intentionally” applies to the statute’s “except as authorized” clause.



June 24, 2022
         
Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, For Valley Hospital Medical Center (20-1312)
For purposes of calculating the Medicare fraction—one of two fractions the Medicare program uses to adjust the rates paid to hospitals that serve a higher-than-usual percentage of low-income patients—those individuals “entitled to [Medicare Part A] benefits” are all those qualifying for the program, regardless of whether they receive Medicare payments for part or all of a hospital stay.

         
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (19-1392)
The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe v. Wade, 410 U. S. 113, and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U. S. 833, are overruled; the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.



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Did You Know...

Race Horse of the North River


The Troy Steamboat Company was one of many companies formed following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Gibbons  v. Ogden (1824), which ended a steamboat monopoly on the Hudson River. Chief Justice John Marshall wrote the opinion asserting Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce. The Troy Line honored the Chief Justice by naming its flagship the Chief Justice Marshall. With its maiden voyage on March 15, 1825, the steamboat would later become known as the “Race Horse of the North River,” after a record 14 1/2 hour trip from New York City to Albany. A commemorative plate issued by Enoch Wood & Sons paid tribute to the steamship.

 

Chief Justice Marshall Steamboat plate by Enoch Wood & Sons, c. 1825 - 1846. The blue transfer plate features a shell border and depicts the steamboat traveling along the Hudson River. A launch holding several figures is tethered alongside the steamboat, likely having just ferried the group of passengers ashore.
Chief Justice Marshall  Steamboat plate by Enoch Wood & Sons, c. 1825 - 1846.
The blue transfer plate features a shell border and depicts the steamboat traveling along the Hudson River. A launch holding several figures is tethered alongside the steamboat, likely having just ferried the group of passengers ashore.
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