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People v. Calvary Chapel San Jose
Pandemic public health orders placing limitations on churches, but not secular businesses, did not survive the Free Exercise Clause's strict scrutiny review and therefore were unconstitutional. 		Constitutional Law 6DCA Aug. 17, 2022
Chavez v. Brnovich
State court rejection of a procedural safeguard claim was not clearly contrary to federal law because the of-right post-conviction relief procedure did not suffer from the same defects as previously rejected procedures. 		Constitutional Law 9th Aug. 2, 2022
City and County of San Francisco v. Garland
California and San Francisco's Tenth Amendment challenges to federal provisions were not ripe because precedent already established that their laws complied with those federal provisions. 		Constitutional Law 9th Aug. 1, 2022
Garnier v. O'Connor-Ratcliff
School board trustees violated parents' First Amendment rights when trustees completely blocked parents from the trustees' social media pages. 		Constitutional Law 9th Jul. 28, 2022
Amended Opinion: Sanchez v. Los Angeles Dept. of Transportation
E-scooter rider's Fourth Amendment privacy violation claim over real-time, scooter ride data collected, was foreclosed by the third-party doctrine. 		Constitutional Law 9th Jul. 11, 2022
Butcher v. Knudsen
A Montana law was unconstitutionally vague because it did not give fair notice that the travel expenses from unpaid political speaking engagements made appellants a political committee subject to regulations. 		Constitutional Law 9th Jul. 7, 2022
California Business & Industrial Alliance v. Becerra
The Private Attorneys General Act does not violate California's separation of powers doctrine and is constitutional. 		Constitutional Law 4DCA/3 Jul. 5, 2022
Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety
Congress may exercise its constitutional power to raise and support the Armed Forces to authorize private damages suits against nonconsenting states under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. 		Constitutional Law USSC Jun. 30, 2022
Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dist.
The Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment protected high school football coach engaging in postgame prayers from government reprisal. 		Constitutional Law USSC Jun. 28, 2022
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey were overruled because the Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision. 		Constitutional Law USSC Jun. 27, 2022
New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen
New York's proper-cause requirement violated the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public. 		Constitutional Law USSC Jun. 24, 2022
U.S. v. Washington
Because it facially discriminates against the Federal Government and does not fall within 40 U.S.C. Section 3172's waiver, a Washington workers' compensation law was unconstitutional under the Supremacy Clause. 		Constitutional Law USSC Jun. 22, 2022
Carson v. Makin
Maine's "nonsectarian" requirement for otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violated the Free Exercise Clause. 		Constitutional Law USSC Jun. 22, 2022
Roe v. Wade
States cannot prevent a woman from terminating a pregnancy pre-viability, but the State's interest in the potential life becomes compelling after viability such that they may regulate abortion. 		Constitutional Law USSC Jun. 24, 2022
Egbert v. Boule
The court declined to extend the *Bivens* damages remedy to a Border Patrol context. 		Constitutional Law USSC Jun. 8, 2022
D.Z. v. L.B.
The trial court violated respondent's due process rights by issuing a civil harassment restraining order that expressly prohibited his conduct without naming him or giving him notice of the order. 		Constitutional Law 3DCA Jun. 7, 2022
Fikre v. FBI
Plaintiff's claims were not moot because government failed to make it absolutely clear that it would not return plaintiff to the No Fly List for the reasons it placed him there originally. 		Constitutional Law 9th May 31, 2022
Sanchez v. Los Angeles Dept. of Transportation
E-scooter rider's Fourth Amendment privacy violation claim over real-time, scooter ride data collected, was foreclosed by the third-party doctrine. 		Constitutional Law 9th May 24, 2022
Los Angeles Police Protective League v. City of Los Angeles
A law requiring complainants to sign an advisory informing complainant that filing a knowingly false complaint against a peace officer is a crime was permissible content-based discrimination. 		Constitutional Law 2DCA/7 May 23, 2022
Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz
Section 304 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act unconstitutionally burdens core political speech without proper justification because it burdens candidates who wish to fund their own candidacy through personal loans. 		Constitutional Law USSC May 17, 2022
Amended Opinion: In re National Security Letter
National Security Letter law's nondisclosure provision, which prohibits disclosure of receipt of such letter, does not violate recipient's First Amendment rights. 		Constitutional Law 9th May 12, 2022
Jones v. Bonta
California's ban on semiautomatic rifles for young adults violated the Second Amendment since it burdened the right to home self-defense and did not reasonably fit the objective of reducing violence. 		Constitutional Law 9th May 12, 2022
Association Des Eleveurs de Canards Et D'Oies Du Quebec v. Bonta
California statutes outlawing the practice of force-feeding ducks or geese to make foie gras and prohibiting its sale were not preempted by federal law. 		Constitutional Law 9th May 9, 2022
People v. Padilla-Martel
City of San Francisco failed to show error in the trial court's finding that proposed stay-away orders against alleged street-level drug dealers were insufficiently tailored to pass constitutional muster. 		Constitutional Law 1DCA/2 May 3, 2022
Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller
Emotional distress damages were not recoverable under either the Rehabilitation Act or the Affordable Care Act in a private action against a recipient of federal funds. 		Constitutional Law USSC Apr. 29, 2022
Kaufmann v. Kijakazi
Provision that allowed removal of the Commissioner of Social Security by the president only for neglect or malfeasance was unconstitutional and severable but claimant could not show actual harm from provision. 		Constitutional Law 9th Apr. 28, 2022
City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC
Austin, Texas' regulations prohibiting the digitizing of "off-premises" advertisement signs, but not "on-premises" signs were facially content-neutral under the First Amendment. 		Constitutional Law USSC Apr. 22, 2022
U.S. v. Vaello Madero
Congress's decision to exempt Puerto Rico residents from Supplemental Security Income benefits passed the rational basis test based on their authority under the Territory Clause of the Constitution. 		Constitutional Law USSC Apr. 22, 2022
Boquist v. Courtney
Dismissal of Oregon minority-party state senator's retaliation claim was reversed since he spoke on a constitutionally protected political controversy and 12-hour advance notice order was a materially adverse action. 		Constitutional Law 9th Apr. 22, 2022
Mecinas v. Hobbs
Democratic National Committee had standing to contest the Arizona Ballot Order Statute since ordering ballots based on the political party who received most votes in last gubernatorial race caused an injury in fact. 		Constitutional Law 9th Apr. 11, 2022
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