Secretary of the Navy v. Avrech, 418 U.S. 676 (decided July 8, 1974): soldier busted down to private for publishing a “disloyal” statement; Court refuses to hear case because service personnel do not enjoy full First Amendment rights (citing Parker v. Levy, 1974) Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, 591 U.S. 732 (decided July 8, 2020): “ministerial exception” to First Amendment (as to teachers of religion) precludes age discrimination and disability discrimination

Commodity Futures Trading Comm’n v. Schor, 478 U.S. 833 (decided July 7, 1986): no separation of powers problem with statute allowing CFTC hearing reparations proceedings against brokers to also have (non-exclusive) jurisdiction over state law counterclaims even though not Article III court and no trial by jury Bowsher v. Synar, 478 U.S. 714 (decided July 7, 1986): separation of powers violated by Congressional agency official whose deficit reductions the President was requir

South Dakota v. Opperman, 428 U.S. 364 (decided July 6, 1976): no warrant needed to search car impounded because illegally parked; cars are not “houses” (Fourth Amendment) and diminished expectation of privacy; marijuana found during permissible “inventory” Chiafalo v. Washington, 591 U.S. 578 (decided July 6, 2020): a state can fine “faithless elector” who does not vote according to instructions laid down by state legislature (State of Washington went for Hillary Clinton in

United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (decided July 5, 1984): evidence (here, drugs) can be presented at trial despite bad warrant if warrant was facially valid and police relied on it in good faith; warrant found not based on probable cause but purpose of exclusionary rule (to deter police misconduct) didn’t apply Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783 (decided July 5, 1983): use of government funds to pay Nebraska legislature’s chaplain did not violate Establishment Clause (all he d