Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers , 583 U.S. 149 (decided February 21, 2018): whistleblower statute did not allow damages for retaliatory termination where employee had reported securities laws violations to senior management but not to the SEC Class v. United States , 583 U.S. 174 (decided February 21, 2018): defendant pleading guilty can still appeal on grounds that statute under which he was charged is unconstitutional (carrying a gun on U.S. Capitol grounds, 40 U.S.C.

Jacobson v. Massachusetts , 197 U.S. 11 (decided February 20, 1905): state statute can allow local boards of health to require vaccinations (plaintiff contested Cambridge’s 1902 attempt to stem smallpox epidemic) Timbs v. Indiana , 586 U.S. 146 (decided February 20, 2019): Excessive Fines Clause of Eighth Amendment is enforceable against states under Fourteenth Amendment; remands on issue of whether civil forfeiture statute violates Clause (here, vehicle seized worth four tim

Ogden v. Saunders , 25 U.S. 213 (decided February 19, 1827): states may legislate to any extent not prohibited by the Constitution and not exclusively the domain of Congress; specifically, Congress’s power to “establish uniform laws on bankruptcies throughout the United States” doesn’t prevent states from creating their own bankruptcy statutes so long as they don’t conflict with federal law and don’t affect contracts in effect before statutes went into effect (a long, long de

Bibles v. Oregon Natural Desert Ass’n , 519 U.S. 355 (decided February 18, 1997): Freedom of Information Act did not entitle environmental group to obtain mailing list of Bureau of Land Management’s newsletter “so that alternative information could be sent to them” Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. , 519 U.S. 337 (decided February 18, 1997): antiretaliation provision of Civil Rights Act of 1964 applied to post-employment actions (here, negative reference given by former employer agai