The Court is now in its summer recess. Its next Conference is scheduled for Monday, September 26.

• United States v. Texas
  Affirmed by an equally divided Court on June 23, 2016.
• Zubik v. Burwell
  Because both the Obama administration and the religious non-profits, colleges, and schools challenging the accommodation offered to those who object to complying with the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate confirm that contraceptive coverage could be provided to the challengers’ female employees, through the challengers’ insurance companies, without any notice from the challengers, the decisions of the courts of appeals rejecting the challenge are vacated and remanded. Given the gravity of the dispute and the substantial clarification and refinement in the positions of the parties, the parties on remand should be afforded an opportunity to arrive at an approach going forward that accommodates the challengers’ religious exercise while at the same time ensuring that women covered by the challengers’ health plans receive full and equal health coverage, including contraceptive coverage.
• Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt
  Whether, when applying the “undue burden” standard of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that this standard permits Texas to enforce, in nearly all circumstances, laws that would cause a significant reduction in the availability of abortion services while failing to advance the State’s interest in promoting health - or any other valid interest.
• Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
  The race-conscious admissions program in use by the University of Texas at Austin when Abigail Fisher applied to the school in 2008 is lawful under the Equal Protection Clause.
• Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins
  Because the Ninth Circuit failed to consider both aspects of the injury-in-fact requirements -- an injury in fact must be both concrete and particularized, but the Ninth Circuit's observations concerned only "particularization" -- its Article III standing analysis was incomplete.

• BeavEx Inc. v. Costello Whether the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act preempts generally-applicable state laws that force motor carriers to treat and pay all drivers as “employees” rather than as independent contractors.
• Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund Whether state courts lack subject matter jurisdiction over covered class actions that allege only Securities Act of 1933 claims.

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• Symposium on the Court's ruling in McDonnell v. United States
• Symposium on the Court's ruling in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
• Symposium on the Court's ruling in United States v. Texas
• Symposium on the Court's ruling in Fisher II
• Symposium on the Court's ruling in Zubik v Burwell
• The potential nominees to succeed Justice Scalia
• Tributes to Justice Antonin Scalia
• Justice Scalia passes away
• United States v. Texas symposium
• Whole Woman's Health v. Cole symposium
• Zubik v. Burwell symposium
• Fisher II symposium
• Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association
• One person, one vote and Evenwel