The court released its order list from the June 15 conference on Monday. The court granted Gill v. Whitford, called for the views of the acting solicitor general in Lamar, Archer & Cofrin, LLP v. Appling, and released a per curiam opinion in Jenkins v. Hutton. On Monday the court also released opinions in five argued cases: Matal v. Tam (formerly known as Lee v. Tam); Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County; McWilliams v. Dunn; Packingham v. North Carolina and Ziglar v. Abbasi. On Thursday the court released opinions in three argued cases: Maslenjak v. United States, Turner v. United States and Weaver v. Massachusetts. On Thursday the justices met for their June 22 conference; our list of "petitions to watch" for that conference is available here. The court will be issuing opinions on Friday at 10 a.m.

• Maslenjak v. United States
  (1) The text of 18 U.S.C. § 1425(a) -- which prohibits "procur[ing], contrary to law, the naturalization of any person" -- makes clear that, to secure a conviction, the federal government must establish that the defendant's illegal act played a role in her acquisition of citizenship; (2) when the underlying illegality alleged in a Section 1425(a) prosecution is a false statement to government officials, a jury must decide whether the false statement so altered the naturalization process as to have influenced an award of citizenship; and (3) measured against this analysis, the jury instructions in this case were in error, and the government's assertion that any instructional error was harmless is left for resolution on remand.
• Weaver v. Massachusetts
  (1) In the context of a public-trial violation during jury selection, when the error is neither preserved nor raised on direct review but is raised later via an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim, the defendant must demonstrate prejudice to secure a new trial; (2) Because Kentel Weaver has not shown a reasonable probability of a different outcome but for counsel's failure to object or that counsel's shortcomings led to a fundamentally unfair trial, he is not entitled to a new trial.
• Turner v. United States
  The withheld evidence is not material under Brady v. Maryland.

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Conference of June 22, 2017

• National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra Whether the free speech clause or the free exercise clause of the First Amendment prohibits California from compelling licensed pro-life centers to post information on how to obtain a state-funded abortion and from compelling unlicensed pro-life centers to disseminate a disclaimer to clients on site and in any print and digital advertising.
• Santander Holdings USA, Inc. v. United States Whether foreign tax payments should be treated as “expenses” and thereby factored into a court's pre-tax profitability calculation under the economic substance test.
• Sokolow v. Palestine Liberation Organization Whether the Fifth Amendment's due process clause precludes federal courts from exercising personal jurisdiction in this suit by American victims of terrorist attacks abroad carried out by the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

More Petitions »

• Symposium on the court’s ruling in Matal v. Tam
• Symposium on October Term 2016’s racial-gerrymandering decisions
• A close look at Judge Neil Gorsuch’s jurisprudence
• Nominations of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court
• Profiling potential nominees to succeed Justice Scalia
• Symposium before the oral argument in Lee v. Tam
• The Court after Scalia
• Symposium before the oral arguments in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Pauley