Kahler v. Kansas
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense
Area(s) of Law:- Criminal Law
Kansas v. Garcia
Whether the Immigration Reform and Control Act preempts and bars the use of identifying information contained in I-9 forms that also appears in non-IRCA documents to prosecute state law crimes.
Area(s) of Law:- Immigration
Mathena, Warden v. Malvo
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding—in direct conflict with Virginia’s highest court and other courts—that a decision of this Court (Montgomery) addressing whether a new constitutional rule announced in an earlier decision (Miller) applies retroactively on collateral review may properly be interpreted as modifying and substantively expanding the very rule whose retroactivity was in question?
Area(s) of Law:- Sentencing
Ramos v. Louisiana
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment Guarantee of a unanimous verdict
Area(s) of Law:- Constitutional Law
Iancu v. NantKwest, Inc.
Whether the phrase “[a]ll expenses of the proceedings” in the Patent Act encompasses personnel expenses incurred by the United States Patent and Trademark Office through employees defending the agency in a civil action under 35 U.S.C. § 145.
Area(s) of Law:- Patents