Announcement of opinions for Thursday, June 20 (complete)

By SCOTUSblog

on Jun 20, 2024
at 8:15 am

On Thursday, June 20, we will be live blogging as the court released four opinions from the current term.

In Moore v. United States, the court rules 7-2 that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act known as the “mandatory repatriation tax,” which required U.S. taxpayers who owned shares in foreign corporations to pay a one-time tax on their share of the corporation’s earnings, does not violate the Constitution.
The court rules 6-3 in Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon that valid criminal charges do not create a categorical bar on a subsequent malicious prosecution claim. It leaves “for another day the follow-on question of how to determine in those circumstances whether the baseless charge caused the requisite seizure.”
In a victory for federal prosecutors, the court rules in Diaz v. United States that expert testimony that ‘most people” have a particular mental state is not an opinion about the defendant and therefore does not violate federal evidentiary rules.
In Gonzalez v. Trevino, the court agrees with Sylvia Gonzalez that requiring her to provide examples of people who also mishandled a government petition but were not arrested “goes too far” in her suit alleging that she was arrested in retaliation for speech protected by the First Amendment.

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