Opinions from 2022

  • Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

    Kennedy v. Bremerton School District0

    Justia Opinion Summary and Annotations Kennedy lost his job as a high school football coach after he knelt at midfield after games to offer a quiet personal prayer. The Ninth Circuit affirmed the summary judgment rejection of Kennedy’s claims against the school district. The Supreme Court reversed. The Constitution neither mandates nor permits the government

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  • Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, For Valley Hospital Medical Center0

    Justia Opinion Summary and Annotations Once a person turns 65 or has received federal disability benefits for 24 months, he becomes “entitled” to Medicare Part A, 42 U.S.C. 426(a)–(b) benefits. Not all patients who qualify for Medicare Part A have their hospital treatment paid for by the program; a patient’s stay may exceed Medicare’s 90-day

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  • Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization0

    Justia Opinion Summary and Annotations Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act provides that “[e]xcept in a medical emergency or in the case of a severe fetal abnormality, a person shall not intentionally or knowingly perform . . . or induce an abortion of an unborn human being if the probable gestational age of the unborn human being

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  • Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP0

    Justia Opinion Summary and Annotations North Carolina amended its Constitution to require photographic identification for in-person voting. S.B. 824 was enacted to implement the amendment. In a federal constitutional challenge, the Board of Elections was defended by the state’s attorney general, a former state senator who had opposed an earlier voter identification law. Legislative leaders

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  • New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen0

    Justia Opinion Summary and Annotations The State of .New York makes it a crime to possess a firearm without a license. An individual who wants to carry a firearm outside his home may obtain an unrestricted license to “have and carry” a concealed “pistol or revolver” if he can prove that “proper cause exists.” An

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  • Nance v. Ward0

    Justia Opinion Summary and Annotations A prisoner who challenges a state’s proposed method of execution under the Eighth Amendment must identify a readily available alternative method that would significantly reduce the risk of severe pain. Nance brought suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 to enjoin Georgia from executing him by lethal injection, the only method of

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