Supreme Court Opinions - Wednesday, April 22, 2026

scotusblog ^ | 4/22/26

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The Supreme Court will be issuing Opinions for cases from the October 2025 term this morning at 10.

Scotusblog will be live-blogging the Opinion releases and we will be following along.

A list of cases for this term can be found at the link just below.

2025 Term

71 cases were granted cert for the 2025 term and there are 39 cases remaining for which we are awaiting decisions.

One case of interest is the Voting Rights case since it is the only remaining case pending from the October sitting.

Louisiana v. Callais Issue(s): Whether Louisiana’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

A preview of the case can be found here:

Louisiana v. Callais

Of course, we may not get that opinion or any others of major interest but it is always good to tune in to see what Court decisions may be shaping our nation's future.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: constitution; courts; government; scotus

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There are several other cases of importance on which we are awaiting opinions. Those cases pertain to 2nd Amendment rights; illegal aliens cases; Men in women's sports; and whether ballots can be received and counted after election day.

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SCOTUS ping!

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One box today so either one or two opinions.

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This first opinion is ENBRIDGE ENERGY, LP, ET AL. v. NESSEL

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-783_bqm2.pdf

It is by Justice Sotomayor, and it is unanimous.

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This Court granted certiorari to resolve a divide
among the Courts of Appeals on whether §1446(b)(1) is subject to equitable tolling.

Held: Because §1446(b)(1)’s text, structure, and context are inconsistent
with equitable tolling, Enbridge’s removal was untimely.

[CFW]

This was a case about whether a district court had the discretion to excuse a company’s failure to meet the deadline to transfer a case from state court to federal court. The Supreme Court says it did not, and the case must go back to the state court.

[dware]

Not many threads I look forward to these days on FR, but this is my favorite. Thanks for what you do.

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The second opinion is in HENCELY v. FLUOR CORP. ET AL.

The second and final case of the day.

The Fourth Circuit erred in finding Hencely’s state-law tort claims preempted where the Federal Government neither ordered nor authorized Fluor’s challenged conduct.

It is by Justice Thomas, with Alito, Roberts, and Kavanaugh dissenting.

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Issue Area on Hencely

Whether Boyle v. United Technologies Corp. should be extended to allow federal interests emanating from the Federal Tort Claims Act’s combatant-activities exception to preempt state tort claims against a government contractor for conduct that breached its contract and violated military orders.

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So a boring Opinion day. That happens. Most of the interesting cases will be in the final two weeks of the term (end of June).

[God luvs America]

So explain this to a layman- Nessell of Michigan lost?

[Feasor13]

Nessel didn’t really “win.” Enbridge screwed up by not transferring the case to federal court in the amount of time allotted by the statute. Case has to wind its way through the state courts before SCOTUS may grant cert to review it.